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On blowing trumpets to the tulips: To prove or not to prove the null hypothesis--Comment on Bösch, Steinkamp, and Boller (2006).

, 2006
The Bösch, Steinkamp and Boller (2006) meta-analysis reaches mixed and cautious conclusions about the possibility of psychokinesis. We argue that, for both methodological and philosophical reasons, it is nearly impossible to draw any conclusions from ...
Wilson, David B., Shadish, William R.
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The effect of attention on psychokinesis

, 1990
This study is designed to determine if the role of human attention has any ostensible effect on circumstances and happenings one observes in the world.
Obendorf, Margaret L.
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Testing for forced-choice precognition using a hidden task: two replications [PDF]

, 2008
This paper describes two studies that were intended to replicate and extend the findings of Luke, Delanoy and Sherwood (2008), who were able to demonstrate a precognition effect using a covert task with contingent reward or punishment.
Roe, Chris A., Luke, David P, Davison , Jamie, Roe, Chris A, Roe, Chris A; id_orcid, Davison, Jamie, Luke, David P.   +6 more
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Longitudinal assessment of the temporal stability and predictive validity of the Revised Paranormal Belief Scale. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
Dagnall N, Denovan A, Drinkwater KG.
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Paranormal Believers' Susceptibility to Confirmatory Versus Disconfirmatory Conjunctions

, 2016
This study examines paranormal believers' susceptibility to the conjunction fallacy for confirmatory versus non-confirmatory conjunctive events. Members of the UK public (N = 207) read 16 hypothetical vignettes before judging the likelihood that each ...
Rogers, Paul; id_orcid, Rogers, P, Emma Lowrie, Fisk, John E., Paul Rogers, Lowrie, Emma, Fisk, John, John E. Fisk, Lowrie, Emma Louise   +8 more
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The Role of Cognitive Control in Paranormal Beliefs: A Study Based on Performance in Go/No-go Task. [PDF]

Basic Clin Neurosci, 2023
Narmashiri A, Hatami J, Khosrowabadi R, Sohrabi A.   +3 more
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Case Report: Surgical Reconstruction of a Massive Thoracic Wall Defect After the Resection of an Undifferentiated Radiation-Induced Sarcoma of the Breast. [PDF]

Front Surg, 2021
Rastrelli M, Di Prata C, Marconato R, Del Fiore P, Granziera E, Brunello A, Vindigni V, Zuin A, Sbaraglia M, Tropea S, Mocellin S.   +10 more
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Magic Curiosity Arousing Tricks (MagicCATs): A novel stimulus collection to induce epistemic emotions. [PDF]

Behav Res Methods, 2021
Ozono H, Komiya A, Kuratomi K, Hatano A, Fastrich G, Raw JAL, Haffey A, Meliss S, Lau JKL, Murayama K.   +9 more
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Mind-Matter Interaction: Unravelling the Enigma of Psychokinesis

Qeios
This article delves into the phenomenon of Psychokinesis (PK) — the mind's supposed ability to influence physical systems without direct interaction. This paper traces PK's transition from mystical lore to a subject of rigorous scientific scrutiny, highlighting key historical developments and the pioneering work of early researchers like J.B.
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Reimagining the poltergeist in twentieth-century America and Britain

, 2016
In creating the psychokinesis hypothesis, twentieth-century American and British psychical researchers, psychoanalysts, and parapsychologists moved the poltergeist away from centuries of religious and spiritual attribution – that it was actions of unseen
Laursen, Christopher
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