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The Archives of the "Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene e.V.": Premises, Problems and Perspectives

open access: yesForum: Qualitative Social Research, 2000
In 1950, the German psychologist and physician Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans BENDER (1907-1991) founded the "Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene e.V." (abbreviated IGPP) in Freiburg/Br.
Uwe Schellinger
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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).

open access: yes, 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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Paranormal Believers' Susceptibility to Confirmatory Versus Disconfirmatory Conjunctions

open access: yes, 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   +8 more
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The effect of attention on psychokinesis

open access: yes, 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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JNDS, Volume 34, Number 2

open access: yes, 2015
: The authors present both unconfirmed and externally confirmed cases of children's pre-existence memories with paranormal aspects that apparently cannot be explained by childish fantasy.
Carman, Elizabeth M.   +3 more
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Ambiguous Origins and Indications of “Poltergeists”

open access: yes, 1997
The phenomena traditionally attributed to recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis is shown to be inherently comprised of vague sensory and environmental stimuli. The ambiguous nature of these experiences precludes any definite supposition as to their source
James Houran
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Paranormal belief and errors of probabilistic reasoning: The role of constituent conditional relatedness in believers' susceptibility to the conjunction fallacy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The present study examines the extent to which stronger belief in either extrasensory perception, psychokinesis or life-after-death is associated with a proneness to making conjunction errors (CEs).
Rogers, Paul; id_orcid   +8 more
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Geophysical Variables and Behavior: LXX. Testing Electromagnetic Explanations for a Possible Psychokinetic Effect of Therapeutic Touch on Germinating Corn Seed

open access: yes, 1992
Designs used to test claims for psychic healing of living systems not amenable to suggestion may produce artifact in the results when there is failure to control for other possible explanations.
Anita M. Bush, Charles R. Geist
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Reimagining the poltergeist in twentieth-century America and Britain

open access: yes, 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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