Basic Research in Parapsychology, 2d ed.

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K. Ramakrishna Rao
McFarland, 15 mar 2016 - 416 páginas

This expanded and revised text includes thirteen experimental reports (five new to this edition) and seven review articles involving meta-analysis and the assessment of evidence in specific areas of psi research. The author provides a representative sample of the extensive literature in the controversial field of parapsychology and presents a few basic experiments illustrating various procedures and broadly reflecting the major trends of psi research. Possible experimental procedures, cumulative evidence showing the replicability of individual experiments, and promising areas of psi research are also discussed.

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Preface
1
Reality Replicability and Lawfulness of Psi K Ramakrishna Rao
3
2 A Review of the PearcePratt Distance Series of ESP Tests JB Rhine and JG Pratt
38
3 PK Tests with a HighSpeed Random Number Generator Helmut Schmidt
50
A Review of a 12Year Program RG Jahn BJ Dunne RD Nelson YH Dobyns and GJ Bradish
63
Replication in Random Event Generator Experiments Roger D Nelson and Dean I Radin
89
6 Transcontinental Remote Viewing Marilyn Schlitz and Elmar Gruber
94
7 An Assessment of the Evidence for Psychic Functioning Jessica Utts
110
A MetaAnalysis and a New Confirmation Charles Honorton Diane C Ferrari and Daryl J Bem
205
13 Comments on the ExtraversionESP MetaAnalysis by Honorton Ferrari and Bem John Palmer and James C Carpenter
228
14 Further Studies of Relaxation as a PsiConducive State Lendell W Braud and William G Braud
234
15 ESP Card Tests of College Students with and without Hypnosis Jarl Fahler and Remi J Cadoret
251
Illustrating an Approach to the Evaluation of Replicability in Parapsychological Data Ephraim I Schechter
262
17 Yogic Meditation and Psi Scoring in ForcedChoice and FreeResponse Tests K Ramakrishna Rao Hamlyn Dukhan and PV Krishna Rao
287
A Response to Hyman Charles Honorton
307
19 Does Psi Exist? Replicable Evidence for an Anomalous Process of Information Transfer Daryl J Bem and Charles Honorton
345

Report of a Confirmatory Study Using the REM Monitoring Technique Montague Ullman and Stanley Krippner
142
The Question of ESP in Dreams Irvin I Child
157
10 Experimenter Effects and the Remote Detection of Staring Richard Wiseman and Marilyn Schlitz
181
III Extraversion and ESP BK Kanthamani and K Ramakrishna Rao
192
Contributors
381
Bibliography
389
Index
401
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Professor K. Ramakrishna Rao is a philosopher and psychologist with expertise in Indian psychology, consciousness studies and parapsychological research. He has published nearly 200 research papers and 15 books, and has served as the executive director of the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man; as founder, head and professor of the Department of Psychology and Parapsychology, and vice-chancellor, Andhra University; and currently as president of the Asian Congress of Philosophy.

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