…the medically qualified. To be honest, I’m pretty tired of it. The test was designed by Andrew A Skolnick, an American science and medical journalist, and by American psychologist Ray Hyman and British psychologist Richard Wiseman, well-known sceptics of paranormal phenomena, who supervised the proceedings. The first part of the…
…outcomes, discouraging strong conclusions. Some of these failed replications were produced by sceptical psychologists including Richard Wiseman, based at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. To determine whether experimenter attitude might be the cause of these outcome differences, a joint project was organized in which two studies of the sense of…
…supervision of Richard Wiseman. Smith is now based at the School of Human and Social Sciences, Buckinghamshire New University, where he has been instrumental in establishing a Centre for Positive Psychology. His current research is focused on positive psychology and ‘luckiness’, including exceptional human experiences. University of Hertfordshire Smith’s research…
…data that mostly cannot be produced on demand. The second contains chapters titled ‘Hallucinatory Experiences’ (by Richard Bentall), ‘Synaesthesia’ (Lawrence E Marks), ‘Lucid Dreaming’Stephen LaBerge and Jayne Gackenbach), ‘Out-of-Body Experiences’ (Carlos Alvarado), ‘Psi-Related Experiences’ (Elisabeth Targ, Marilyn Schlitz, and Harvey J Irwin), ‘Alien Abduction Experiences’ (Stuart Appelle, Steven Jay Lynn,…
…fraud was strongly suspected. Background In 1760 William Kent, a young stockbroker, rented a house in Cock Lane, a small street in the City of London. It belonged to Richard Parsons, a parish clerk and ‘heavy drinker with a tendency to run into debt’.1Smyth (1982), 1559. Other biographical details in…
…British Columbia to Charlottesville, Virginia, staying for six years. Mills undertook numerous reincarnation projects during her six years working with Stevenson.She co-edited (with Richard Slobodin, the most prominent anthropologist sharing her specialty) an anthology of essays on reincarnation beliefs and experiences among North American indigenous peoples, entitled Amerindian Rebirth: Reincarnation…
…which an ethnographer engaged in such practices can maintain a sense of objective detachment from their research subjects. Writing in 1978, Richard de Mille, who had been one of Castaneda’s chief critics, emphasized the importance of carrying out ‘anomalistic anthropology’, in which anthropologists clarify their own tacit assumptions about the…
…Richard. Carpenter, W.B. (1877). Mesmerism and Spiritualism, &c. Historically & Scientifically Considered. London: Longmans and Green. Charcot, J.M. (1888). Hysteria and Spiritism. Medical and Surgical Reporter 59, 65–68. Clarke, E., & Jacyna, L.S. (1987). Nineteenth-Century Origins of Neuroscientific Concepts. Berkeley, California, USA: University of California Press. Crabtree, A. (1993). From…
…accept the funding and appoint him to the chair’s selection team. During his time at Edinburgh he supervised Richard Broughton and Adrian Parker, both of whom became prominent experimenters in the field of parapsychology. He was influential in the appointment of the American parapsychologist Robert Morris as the first professor,…
