Basic research in parapsychology / compiled and edited by K. Ramakrishna Rao.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rao, K. Ramakrishna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parapsychology.

Physical Description:

viii, 408 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2001]

Summary:

This expanded and revised text includes 13 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.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Reality, Replicability, and Lawfulness of Psi / K. Ramakrishna Rao 3

2. A Review of the Pearce-Pratt Distance Series of ESP Tests / J.B. Rhine, J.G. Pratt 38

3. PK Tests with a High-Speed Random Number Generator / Helmut Schmidt 50

4. Correlations of Random Binary Sequences with Pre-Stated Operator Intention: A Review of a 12-Year Program / R.G. Jahn, B.J. Dunne, R.D. Nelson, Y.H. Dobyns, G.J. Bradish 63

5. Statistically Robust Anomalous Effects: Replication in Random Event Generator Experiments / Roger D. Nelson, Dean I. Radin 89

6. Transcontinental Remote Viewing / Marilyn Schlitz, Elmar Gruber 94

7. An Assessment of the Evidence for Psychic Functioning / Jessica Utts 110

8. A Laboratory Approach to the Nocturnal Dimension of Paranormal Experience: Report of a Confirmatory Study Using the REM Monitoring Technique / Montague Ullman, Stanley Krippner 142

9. Psychology and Anomalous Observations: The Question of ESP in Dreams / Irvin I. Child 157

10. Experimenter Effects and the Remote Detection of Staring / Richard Wiseman, Marilyn Schlitz 181

11. Personality Characteristics of ESP Subjects: III. Extraversion and ESP / B.K. Kanthamani, K. Ramakrishna Rao 192

12. Extraversion and ESP Performance: A Meta-Analysis and a New Confirmation / Charles Honorton, Diane C. Ferrari, Daryl J. Bem 205

13. Comments on the Extraversion-ESP Meta-Analysis by Honorton, Ferrari, and Bem / John Palmer, James C. Carpenter 228

14. Further Studies of Relaxation as a Psi-Conducive State / Lendell W. Braud, William G. Braud 234

15. ESP Card Tests of College Students with and without Hypnosis / Jarl Fahler, Remi J. Cadoret 251

16. Hypnotic Induction vs. Control Conditions: Illustrating an Approach to the Evaluation of Replicability in Parapsychological Data / Ephraim I. Schechter 262

17. Yogic Meditation and Psi Scoring in Forced-Choice and Free-Response Tests / K. Ramakrishna Rao, Hamlyn Dukhan, P.V. Krishna Rao 287

18. Meta-Analysis of Psi Ganzfeld Research: A Response to Hyman / Charles Honorton 307

19. Does Psi Exist? Replicable Evidence for an Anomalous Process of Information Transfer / Daryl J. Bem, Charles Honorton 345.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: The basic experiments in parapsychology. 1984.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-399) and index.

ISBN:

0786410086

OCLC:

46314869