…McDougall’s preference was for experimental study and he participated in telepathy experiments.14Berger (1988), 116. All information in this section is drawn from this source unless otherwise noted. He served on the council of the SPR, serving as president for two years. At Harvard, he reactivated the university’s neglected Richard Hodgson…
…Religions 19/1, 87-97. Munves, J. (1997). Richard Hodgson, Mrs Piper and George Pelham: A centennial reassessment. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 62, 138-54. Parker, A. (2015a). The jungle of hypnotic psi: Part 1, Research on hypnosis relevant to psi. Journal of Parapsychology 79, 20-36. Parker, A. (2015b). The…
…with a shortened right arm and rudimentary digits which were later surgically removed. Though he made no past-life-memory-based statements, he was considered to be the reincarnation of his paternal grandfather, Richard Peck, a renowned fisherman, since Richard had repeatedly said that he wanted to live his next life with only…
…in Britain such as Chris Roe and Richard Broughton are members of its governing Council. (See Society for Psychical Research) The Koestler Chair, Edinburgh University The catalyst for the exponential growth of parapsychology in the UK was the endowment in 1985 of the Koestler Chair for Parapsychology, funded by a…
…Alternative and Complementary Medicine 11, 955-63. Standish, L., Johnson, C., Kozak, L., & Richards, T. (2003). Evidence of correlated functional magnetic resonance imaging signals between distant human brains. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine 9/128, 122-5. Standish, L., Kozak, L., Johnson, C., & Richards, T. (2004). Electroencephalographic evidence of correlated…
…the psi hypothesis, as well as the complementary line of research into ‘what’s not psychic but looks like it’. What’s Not Psychic But Looks Like It One relatively early project was by Richard Wiseman and Peter Lamont, both of whom have conjuring expertise. It concerned how eyewitness testimony for seemingly…
…current university afiliation (see list below for key). An asterisk indicates that the person no longer does parapsychology research. Generation One Generation Two Generation Three John Beloff EDIN Richard Broughton NH Deborah Delanoy NH Julie Milton* EDIN David Luke (SS) GREEN Paul Atkinson Erica Brostoff Goran Brusewitz (AP) Ross Friday…
…recently investigated the phenomenon, namely Robert Baker, David Marks, Susan Blackmore and Richard Wiseman. So has Christopher French, the editor of The Skeptic. All five are academic psychologists. What have they found? Robert Baker In his first demonstration, Baker selected people who were engrossed in eating or drinking, watching TV,…
…psi debate. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 20, 182-92. Persinger, M.A., Roll, W.G., Tiller, S.G. Koren, S.A., & Cook, C.M. (2002). Remote viewing with the artist Ingo Swann: neuropsychological profile, electroencephalographic correlates, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and possible mechanisms. Perceptual and Motor Skills 94/3, 927-49. Richards, T., Kozak, L., Johnson, C.,…
