Anomalous experiences
Subtitle: essays from parapsychological and psychological perspectives
By: edited by Matthew D. Smith.
Contributors: Smith, Matthew D., 1970-
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780786443987
Subjects: Parapsychology
Description: "Thirteen essays on the psychology and parapsychology of anomalous experience explore extrasensory perception, haunting experiences, apparitions, alien contacts, séance room phenomena, and out-of-body experiences. The contributors are Daryl Bem, Etzel Cardena, Jezz Fox, Chris French, Craig Murray, Ciaran O'Keeffe, Chris Roe, Simon Sherwood, Christine Simmonds-Moore, Paul Stevens, Caroline Watt, Richard Wiseman and Robin Woofitt"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Feeling the future: studies of precognitive emotional arousal / Daryl J. Bem; title: Experimenter effects in parapsychology: three studies with a remote helping task / Caroline Watt; title: The role of altered states of consciousness in extrasensory experiences / Chris A. Roe; title: Are our assumptions more anomalous than the phenomena? / Paul Stevens; title: Will we ever know whether extrasensory perception exists? / Jezz Fox; title: Towards a sociological parapsychology / Robin Wooffitt; title: Anomalous experiences during deep hypnosis / Etzel Cardeña; title: Haunting experiences: an integrative approach / Ciarán O'Keeffe and Steve Parsons; title: Apparitions of black dogs / Simon J. Sherwood; title: Psychological aspects of the alien contact experience / Christopher C. French ... [et al.]; title: Observing the impossible: eyewitness testimony for darkroom séances / Richard Wiseman; title: Developing a dissociational account of out-of-body experiences / Craig D. Murray; title: Anomalous experiences and boundary thinness in the mind and brain / Christine Simmonds-Moore.