…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…
…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…
…experiments than others, regardless of the topic or hypothesis tested.’ The situation is more extreme than even this suggests. There are diligent researchers (notably Donald West, John Beloff, Sybo Schouten, Brian Millar, Susan Blackmore and Richard Wiseman) who have rarely, if ever, registered any psi at all in decades of…
