Anomalous Experiences

Essays from Parapsychological and Psychological Perspectives
Herausgeber: Smith, Matthew D.

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Produktbeschreibung

Thirteen essays on the psychology and parapsychology of anomalous experience explore a range of phenomena, including extrasensory perception, haunting experiences, apparitions, alien contacts, seance room activity, and out-of-body experiences. The contributors are Daryl J. Bem, Etzel Cardena, Jezz Fox, Rachel Fox, Christopher C. French, Victoria Hamilton, Craig D. Murray, Ciaran O'Keeffe, Steve Parsons, Chris A. Roe, Julia Santomauro, Simon J. Sherwood, Christine Simmonds-Moore, Paul Stevens, Michael Thalbourne, Caroline Watt, Richard Wiseman and Robin Wooffitt.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9780786443987
• ISBN-10: 0786443987
• Artikelnr.: 26572816

Autorenporträt

Matthew D. Smith is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Buckinghamshire New University in England. He has conducted research on paranormal experiences for more than 15 years and was the resident psychologist/parapsychologist for the television show Most Haunted.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface     
Part One: Parapsychological Perspectives
1. Feeling the Future: Studies of Precognitive Emotional Arousal
Daryl J. Bem     
2. Experimenter Effects in Parapsychology: Three Studies with a Remote
Helping Task
Caroline Watt     
3. The Role of Altered States of Consciousness in Extrasensory Experiences
Chris A. Roe     
4. Are Our Assumptions More Anomalous Than the Phenomena?
Paul Stevens     
5. Will We Ever Know Whether Extrasensory Perception Exists?
Jezz Fox     
6. Towards a Sociological Parapsychology
Robin Wooffitt     
Part Two: Psychological Perspectives
7. Anomalous Experiences During Deep Hypnosis
Etzel Cardeña     
8. Haunting Experiences: An Integrative Approach
Ciarán O'Keeffe and Steve Parsons     
9. Apparitions of Black Dogs
Simon J. Sherwood     
10. Psychological Aspects of the Alien Contact Experience
Christopher C. French, Julia Santomauro, Victoria Hamilton, Rachel Fox and
Michael Thalbourne     
11. Observing the Impossible: Eyewitness Testimony for Darkroom Séances
Richard Wiseman     
12. Developing a Dissociational Account of Out-of-Body Experiences
Craig D. Murray     
13. Anomalous Experiences and Boundary Thinness in the Mind and Brain
Christine Simmonds-Moore     
About the Contributors     
Index