…a balanced and scholarly approach to the field.1Sturgess (2010). Watt together with Richard Wiseman edited Parapsychology, a collection of important articles. Harvey Irwin invited her to be the second author of the fifth edition of An Introduction to Parapsychology, which was published in 2007. Watt has also written a book…
…Honorton concluded that the experiments satisfied the concerns of Hyman and constitute solid evidence for ESP. Ganzfeld Meta-analysis Controversy A 1999 meta-analysis by Julie Milton and Richard Wiseman9Milton & Wiseman (1999). returned negative conclusions from a subset of thirty recent studies. Parapsychologists disputed the authors’ selection criteria; in particular, adding…
…(z = 4.22, p = 1.2 × 10-5). Richard Gross The most extensive coverage is by Richard Gross, titled Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour (2010), which devotes a whole chapter to parapsychology.27Gross (2010), 82-94. It begins with an account of its historical origins in psychical research, through field…
…The End of Borley Rectory. London: Harrap & Co. Ltd. Randles, J., & Warrington, P. (1980). UFOs: A British Viewpoint. London: BCA. Rayleigh, Lord (1933). On a method of silhouette photography by infra-red rays for use in mediumistic investigation. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 41/128. Richards, J.T. (1982)….
…funding for a research programme with the real time ganzfeld. The situation changed again when, in 1999, Julie Milton and Richard Wiseman published in the Psychological Bulletin a new meta-analysis of thirty studies reported between 1987 to 1997. This showed a near-zero effect size and an overall statistic that was…
…Uncle Sam or to some lean, tall, grey American.16Dodds (1972), 378. 9. Target: I get Lady Richards walking along the road in a grey mackintosh, rather blown about by the wind and the rain. Response: Someone walking in the rain? Couldn’t be sure but I should think it was Lady…
…1994, the producers of Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious Universe, a television documentary on the paranormal, invited British sceptic Richard Wiseman and parapsychologist Donald West to test three professional British psychics, one of whom had been endorsed by a police department.32The episode linked to is not complete, however it contains the…
…precautions were taken against sensory leakage and overly general statements were ruled out. Career Ciaran O’Keeffe gained a PhD in psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in 2005, supervised by Richard Wiseman, with a program assessing the content of advice given by practitioners claiming paranormal abilities. He is an associate…
…Bull (another incumbent) Edward Cooper, the rectory gardener and his wife Fred Cartwright, a carpenter who worked at the rectory Rev Lionel Foyster and his wife Marianne Lady Whitehouse and Dom Richard Whitehouse, acquaintances of the Foysters Rev Alfred Clifford Henning, Rector of Borley and Liston local inhabitants Charles Browne…
