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Follow-up on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) remote viewing experiments☆. [PDF]

open access: yesBrain Behav, 2023
Since 1972, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) commissioned several research programs on remote viewing (RV) that were progressively declassified from 1995 to 2003. We offer new statistical evidence suggesting a new approach to RV research based on the role of emotions and emotional intelligence. Abstract Objectives Since 1972, the U.S. Central
Escolà-Gascón Á   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Associations between sleep variables and ostensibly paranormal experiences and paranormal beliefs: A scoping review

open access: yesBritish Journal of Psychology, Volume 114, Issue 4, Page 797-818, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Night‐time is a period of great significance for many people who report paranormal experiences. However, there is limited understanding of the associations between sleep variables and seemingly paranormal experiences and/or beliefs. The aim of this review is to improve our understanding of these associations while unifying a currently ...
Betul Rauf   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE MALICIOUS GAME: Friendship, Foresight, and Philosophy at an Iraqi Teahouse in Jordan

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 467-491, November 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT In the late‐night cafés of Amman, Jordan, Iraqi refugees have adopted a new game, called jaakaaroo, that they say is more “malicious” than familiar favorites like dominoes or backgammon. Meanwhile, they decry the cruelty, greed, and suspicion that have eroded social bonds in their home and host countries.
ZACHARY SHELDON
wiley   +1 more source

Artefacts from tomorrow: Future dilemmas of the parahistorian

open access: yesRatio, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 159-168, September 2022., 2022
Abstract In 1987, Roy Sorensen coined the term “parahistory” to denote the hypothetical study of evidence retrieved via time travel. Parahistory would thus stand to history rather as parapsychology does to psychology; studying data (in this case artefacts) that are obtained in ways unrecognised by orthodox science.
Alasdair Richmond
wiley   +1 more source

Demarcation without Dogmas

open access: yesTheoria, Volume 88, Issue 3, Page 701-720, June 2022., 2022
Abstract This paper reviews how research on the demarcation problem has developed, starting from Popper's criterion of falsifiability and ending with recent naturalistically oriented approaches. The main differences between traditional and contemporary approaches to the problem are explicated in terms of six postulates called the traditional ...
Ilmari Hirvonen, Janne Karisto
wiley   +1 more source

Bones of contention

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 192-205, May 2021., 2021
ABSTRACT Postcolonial Vietnam is characterized by the interplay between necropolitics and necrosociality, as practiced respectively by the militarized state and a society that traditionally maintains relations with the dead. This interplay is key to understanding conflicts in Vietnam over the bones of unidentified war dead.
TÂM T. T. NGÔ
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Methodologies in Parapsychology Research with Children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
In contemporary parapsychology research, children are missing. The wealth of literature with adults highlights children’s paranormal experiences as an under-researched topic.
Thomas, Donna
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Recent Publications of Note 2(2)

open access: yesJournal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition, 2022
Annotated bibliography.
Etzel Cardeña
doaj   +1 more source

Constructing parapsychology : a discourse analysis of the accounts of experimental parapsychologists [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This thesis is concerned with parapsychology as a field of experimental science. It is based on the discourse analysis of interviews with experimental parapsychologists, in which they provide accounts of their field, their own research practices and ...
Coelho, Claudia Carvalho De Matos Teixeira
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Inconscious, brain lateralization and parapsychology [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2015
In this paper, we have tried to show that it is impossible to study and understand the language of parapsychology without knowing the problem of 'conscious' and 'unconscious' process and issues of brain lateralization.
Alečković-Nikolić Mila S.
doaj   +1 more source

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