…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),…
…defending his account and noting his competence as a licentiate member of the Institute of Incorporated Photographers.11Edmunds (1968), 366-69. See also Rogo’s response: Rogo (1969), 28-31. Richard Sheargold, reviewing the booklet in the International Journal of Parapsychology, similarly expressed disappointment at what he saw as its entirely negative slant.12Sheargold (1966),…
…John Palmer reviewed the research with Delmore in an overview of parapsychological research.9Palmer (1986). Later, GP Hansen wrote a critical overview,10Hansen (1992). which was followed by responses from Kelly and others. Richard Wiseman tested whether Delmore could have used a small mirror attached to one of his shoes and concluded…
…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. Robinson…
…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…
