…European Journal of Parapsychology and insisted on publication policies that did not privilege positive results. His Utrecht laboratory became a hub for international researchers including Susan Blackmore, Richard Broughton, John Palmer, and WG Roll. Apparent links between the Defense Mechanism Test and ESP performance initially looked promising, but later evaluation…
…observed between safeguards used and study outcomes, suggesting methodological quality, considered by sceptical critics to be the source of positive results, in fact had limited influence – a feature that any theory of psi would need to account for. SORRAT Morris joined with Richard Wiseman to test claims of psi…
…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…
…Milton and Richard Wiseman followed up with a meta-analysis of thirty new ganzfeld studies dating from 1987 to 1997.29Milton & Wiseman (1999). Studies prior to 1987 were not used because it was assumed that investigators needed time to familiarize themselves with Hyman and Honorton’s guidelines so that earlier studies would…
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…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…
