…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),…
…of psychic detection by Richard Wiseman, Donald West and Roy Stemman.10Wiseman, West & Stemman (1996). Two professional psychics and Robinson, together with a control group of three students, were each given three objects and asked to match each one to the corresponding description of crimes to which they were related….
…then director, and lecturer in the anthropology department. She accepted and relocated from 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…
…into question the fundamentals of the ethnographic method of participant observation, and in particular the extent to 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…
…History and Philosophy of Science 48, 75-84. Braude, A. (2001). Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. Bloomington, Indiana, USA: Indiana University Press. Burlet, P. (1863). Du Spiritisme Considéré comme cause d’Aliénation Mentale. Lyon: Imprimerie de Richard. Carpenter, W.B. (1877). Mesmerism and Spiritualism, &c. Historically & Scientifically Considered….
…of the will, Beloff was sufficiently well-regarded within the University of Edinburgh for its board to 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….
…upper-class intellectuals who dominated the field in Britain. 28Morris (2006), 213. There is no doubt Price was an ambitious and sometimes abrasive character who was liked and disliked in equal measure. Author Richard Morris sums up Price as ‘a supreme bluffer, a hedonistic con man, a terrific raconteur, a great…
…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 psychologist and psi sceptic Richard Wiseman, Morris to test claims of psi phenomena made by the Society for Research in Rapport and…
