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ZEITSCHRIFT FUR Parapsychologie UND
Grenzgebiete DER Psychologie
Note: The
first
abstract
below
was
inadvertently
omitted
from Vol.
4(1), which covered VoL
15 of this journal.
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01910. Hammers, Alwin
J., and Rosin, Ulrich. Parapsy-
chology as judged by German
theologians.
Zeitschrift
fur Parapsychologie und Grenzgebiete der Psychologie,
1973, 75(1),
15-35.
Selected
results
of
a
survey
of a
representative
ran-
dom sample
of
Catholic
and
Protestant
theologians of the
Federal
Republic
of
Germany
are
reported
which
was
taken
in
March,
1972.
So
far
as
the
general
attitude
towards
parapsychology
is concerned,
the
questions
about
the
value and
scientific character of parapsychology and
about
the
factuality
of
its phenomena
were
answered
on
the
average
very
positively.
The
representatives
of
a
general
"occult
believing"
or
"anti-occult
believing”
at-
titude
are
only
indicated
sporadically.
All
in
all,
the
theologians prove
to be
the
professional group most
prob-
ably
best informed on the field
of
parapsychology. Accord-
ing
to
the
theologians,
the
main
importance
of
parapsy-
chology
lies
in
the
field
of
anthropology.
In
spite
of
the
affinity
of
parapsychical
phenomena
to
the
religious
ex-
perience, the former
is given
its own meaning independent
of the
religious sphere. This
affinity should
be
the
reason,
however, for
a
positive
attitude of the
theoldgians towards
parapsychology.
The
expectation
that
parapsychical
phe-
nomena
are
readily drawn
on
as
a
support
for
the
thc-
‘ ological system
is
not confirmed. A
clear
skepticism
of
the
theologians
in
regard
to parapsychology only
then
appears
when
they
suspect
that
parapsychology
will
break
into
their own
field.
There
are
definite
differences
between
the
theologians
of
the
two
confessions
in
the
answers
given
to
the
questions.
Although
more
Protestant
the-
ologians answered
the
questionnaire and
also have
a
bet-
ter
knowledge
of
the
literature
at
their
disposal,
their
positive
statements
on
parapsychology
and
its
phenomena
are
generally somewhat
more
reserved
than
those
of
the
Catholic
theologians.
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01911.
Misclio, Johannes. Are psychic phenomena when
treated according to quantitative and statistical models
a "roulette" for "supernatural" consequences?
l’t.
II: A
critical examination
of
call
sequences.
Zeitschrift fur
Parapsychologie
und
Grenzgebiete
der
Psychologie,
1975,
77(1),
1-28. 13
refs;
19 tables
In
this
article
the
objections
to
the
quantitative and
statistical
model
of ESP
experiments
are
summarized
as
follows:
(1)
in ESP
card-guessing
experiments
subjects
are
not
able
to
produce random
call
sequences,
(2)
it
has
not
been
shown
that
target
sequences
are
stochastic
se-
quences,
(3)
dependence
on
calls
and
target
sequences
leads
to
pseudosignificant
results due
to
its
bordering on
hit
sequences
and
is
thus
wrongly
interpreted
as
a
para-
psychic phenomenon.
Extensive
empirical
material
for
calls
(closed
decks,
open
decks,
experiments
with
random number
generators)
is
analyzed.
Even
in RNG
experiments
subjects
are
not
able
to
produce
stochastic
sequences.
According
to
these
results the
first
thesis
is
fully
verified.
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01912.
Bjarsch,
Hubert.
Case
history
relating
to
pr-
oblems of paranormal
faculties
in schizophrenia.
Zeitschrift
fur
Parapsychologie und Grenzgebiete der
Psychologie, 1975,
77(1), 41-49.
ref
A
34-year
old
schizophrenic
is
described.
Under
the
impact
of
incestuous
ideas she
imagines
her
father
being
re-born
in her own son;
she
also
reports
a number of
al-
legedly
psychokinetic
phenomena
which
partly
appeared
spontaneously,
partly
in
connection
with
performances
by
Uri
Geller
on
television.
This
case
description
forms
the
basis
for
a
discussion
of
special
factors
of
uncertainty
which
are
concomitants
of
schizophrenia and
that have
to
be
taken
into
consideration,
if
necessary,
when
judging
reports on allegedly paranormal occurrences.
After
the
author had
finished
this
paper
the
schizo-
phrenic committed
suicide.
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01913.
Lucadou,
Walter
von,
and Kornwachs,
Klaus.
Fundamentals
of a theory of paranormal phenomena.
Zeitschrift fur
Parapsychologie und
Grenzgebiete
der
Psychologie,
1975,
77(2/3), 73-87.
refs
In
this
article
a
basis for
a new understanding of
psi
phenomena
is
outlined.
It
is
centered
in
the
fundamental
discussion
of how
complex
systems
can
be
described
in
terms
of
positivism.
By
these
considerations
the
authors
are
led
to demand
a
macroscopic
function
of
probability,
phi,
by
means
of
which
psi
phenomena
can
be explained
as
being dependent on
physical
and
psychological
condi-
tions.
Although
a
concept
of
a
function
of
probability
cannot
be
fully understood
within
the
categories
of
classi-
cal
ontology
it
is shown
to. be
able
to make
possible
a
formal and
thus
quantifiable
theory
of parapsychology.
Al-
though,
moreover,
psychological
effects cannot be reduced
to
physical
descriptions
the
concept
of
a
psi
function
enables
us
to
establish
a
relation and connection between
psychological
and
physical
data.
This
is
illustrated by an
analysis of psychokinetic phenomena. The
theory discussed
here
is
not
a
physical
theory
in
the
traditional
sense
but
is
based
on
a
concept
of
physics
that
is
able
to
take
psychological
variables
into account.
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01914.
Brand,
Illo.
The
spectrum
of UFO
sightings.
Zeitschrift
fiir
Parapsychologie und
Grenzgebiete
der
Psychologie,
1975,
77(2/3),
89-124.
figs; 78
refs
The
author
demonstrates
that
the
prejudices
prohi-
biting
scientific
research
on
UFO phenomena
are
based
on
sociopsychological
reasons.
Most
reports
come
from
laypersons,
are
of
anecdotal
character,
and
do
not
reach
scientific
journals. The UFO
problem,
on
the
other
hand,
fulfills
the
requirements
claimed
by
a
science-theoretical
view.
The
personality
structure
of
the UFO
witnesses
is
different
from
that
of
the
witnesses
of
paranormal
phenomena. A
paranoia
that
could
be
induced
by
the
UFO
theme
is
not
observed
(in
contradiction
to
the
opinion
of
the
press).
Resistance
of
scientists
to UFO
re-
search
is based on
the
difficulty encountered
in
the acqui-
sition
of
reliable
data,
in
the
premature
declaration
of
public opinion
that UFOs
are
extraterrestrial
space
ships,
in
the
allegedly
reduced
reliability
connected
with
the
engagement
in
obscure
observations and
observers,
and
in
the
shortage
of
getting well-founded
information. The aim
of
the
examination
by
E. Condon
and
his co-workers
in
1969
was
to
trace
back
all
the
UFO
observations
to
natural
phenomena,
frauds,
or
illusions and
hallucinations.
In
the
spectrum
of UFO
sightings,
in
which
the
author
had
put
the
sizes
of
the
objects
versus
the
physical
reac-
tion on
the environment
in
a
diagram,
the Condon-UFO
cases
reveal
the
smallest
degrees
of
significance and
are
cancelled out by definition
from
"physical UFO phenome-
na."
Only when
the
distribution
of
frequencies
of
sight-
ings
in
a
spectrum
based
on
50,000
computerized
data
is
known can
it
be
decided
without any
doubt
whether
the
UFO
phenomenon
is
primarily
a
physical
or
a
parapsy-
chological phenomenon.
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