…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…
…Harry 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…
…Richards (1990). Clients come to him with a problem for which they seek comfort and advice; even ‘sensation-seeking’ clients will identify a specific problem or question which is uppermost in their minds and wait to see what the reader has to say about it. Strategies intended to determine the client’s…
…of 25%.10Richard Broughton, who was director of research at the time, analyzed the data from the Institute for Parapsychology and found 28 participants who fitted the three-factor model – their scoring rate was 43%, independently confirming the PRL model.8Broughton et al. (1990). Broughton collaborated with Honorton and encouraged him to…
…Richard Wiseman is an equally well-known sceptic of psi. They had obtained significant and nonsignificant results respectively in previous experiments aimed at testing whether participants can detect when they are being stared at from a distant location. They decided to collaborate in three such experiments in which each served as…
…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 test allowed Demkina to interact with six patients in her usual manner, speaking with them directly. Five out of six were impressed with her accuracy,…
…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 being stared at were conducted at Wiseman’s laboratory. The only variable was the…
…Smith was awarded a degree in Applied Psychology in 1992 from Liverpool John Moores University, followed by PhD in 1998 from the University of Hertfordshire under the supervision of Richard Wiseman. Smith is now based at the School of Human and Social Sciences, Buckinghamshire New University, where he has been…
…journals and publication catalogs’, writes Leonard George in a review.17George (2001), 85. The first of two sections discusses methodological concerns, notably the difficulty of trying to gather introspective data that mostly cannot be produced on demand. The second contains chapters titled ‘Hallucinatory Experiences’ (by Richard Bentall), ‘Synaesthesia’ (Lawrence E Marks),…
