The Journal of Parapsychology back issues from March 2003:
Scientists, shamans, and sages: gazing through six hats.
Mar 22, 2003; ... ABSTRACT Most parapsychologists espouse traditional scientific methods, involving data collection and data analysis, refereed publications, critical feedback, methodological improvements, renewed hypothesis testing, and so on. Overall, this approach has helped establish the ...
Research strategies for enhancing conceptual development and replicability.
Mar 22, 2003; ... ABSTRACT Strategies are described for advancing conceptual development and replicability by testing conceptual hypotheses. Emphasis is given to creating and testing hypotheses to explain specific findings (e.g., that psi believers perform better than nonbelievers). This work ...
The capricious, actively evasive, unsustainable nature of psi: a summary and hypotheses.
Mar 22, 2003; ... ABSTRACT Many parapsychological writers have suggested that psi may be capricious or actively evasive. The evidence for this includes the unpredictable, significant reversal of direction for psi effects, the loss of intended psi effects while unintended secondary or internal ...
A controlled analysis of subjective paranormal experiences in temporal lobe dysfunction in a neuropsychiatric population.
Mar 22, 2003; ... ABSTRACT This research extended to a neuropsychiatric population findings by Neppe and by Persinger that subjective paranormal experiences (SPEs) are associated with temporal lobe dysfunction (TLD) in the brain. The sample consisted of 100 of Neppe's patients at the Pacific ...
Experimenter effects with a remote facilitation of attention focusing task: a study with multiple believer and disbeliever experimenters.
Mar 22, 2003; ... ABSTRACT This article reports the 4th study in a series investigating experimenter effects with a remote facilitation of attention focusing psi task. The "helpee" focuses attention on a candle and presses a button whenever he or she feels distracted. Simultaneously, the remote ...
The phychology of the "psi-conductive" experimenter: personality, attitudes towards psi, and personal psi experience.
Mar 22, 2003; ... ABSTRACT The experimenter effect, in which some experimenters are consistently more successful than other experimenters in obtaining evidence for psi, continues to be a major challenge for modern parapsychology. The term psi-conducive experimenter has been adopted to refer to a ...
Considering the sender as a pk agent in ganzfeld esp studies.
Mar 22, 2003; ... ABSTRACT Previous ganzfeld research that has considered the role of the sender has been inconsistent in its findings and may be criticised for not taking sufficient account of the sender--receiver relationship. This study used a novel method for assessing any sender influence. A ...
Videotaped experiments on telephone telepathy.
Mar 22, 2003; ... ABSTRACT The authors tested whether participants (N = 4) could tell who was calling before answering the telephone. In each trial, participants had 4 potential callers, one of whom was selected at random by the experimenter. Participants were filmed on time-coded videotape ...
The coverage of parapsychology in introductory psychology textbooks: 1990-2002.
Mar 22, 2003; ... ABSTRACT Content analysis of 3 samples of introductory psychology textbooks published in the 1980s (N= 64), in the 1990s (N= 32), and for fall 2002 (N= 57) revealed changes in coverage of ESP and parapsychology Sixty-three percent of the 1980s sample, 54% of the 1990s sample, ...
Spiritual motivations of parapsychologists? Empirical data.
Mar 22, 2003; ... ABSTRACT Contrary to the beliefs of both extreme skeptics and spiritually committed people that parapsychologists are either, at the one extreme, mainly driven by attempts to validate their personal spiritual convictions under the guise of science or, at the other extreme, too ...
Obituary Marcello Truzzi: 1935-2003.(Obituary)
Mar 22, 2003; ... Marcello Truzzi, associate member of the Parapsychological Association, died of cancer on February 2, 2003. He was 67. Truzzi, known as a "balanced" skeptic, advocated considering evidence regarding all points of view. He encouraged discourse between skeptics and believers and, as a ...
Investigating the Paranormal. (Book Review: Essay Review).(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2003; ... INVESTIGATING THE PARANORMAL by Tony Cornell. New York: Helix Press, 2002. Pp. 424. $30.00 (paperback). ISBN 0-912328-98-3. A hotel on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel owned by Tony Cornell's great-grandfather was said to be haunted. One night the howling of their ...
Correspondence.
Mar 22, 2003 ... To the Editor: I greatly enjoyed James McClenon's "Content Analysis of an Anomalous Experience Collection: Evaluating Evolutionary Perspectives" (JP, 66, 291-316). Please permit a comment about his observation on page 310 that "no known data link fertility and psi." ...
Errata.(Correction Notice)
Mar 22, 2003 ... In the September 2002 issue, the mailing addresses are in error for two of the Parapsychological Association abstracts. The institutional affiliation "Department of Empirical and Analytical Psychophysics" following the Timm and Boiler abstract (p. 240) is incorrect and should be appended ...