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This book consists of a collection of essays informing readers as to the contemporary status of selected cutting-edge issues in parapsychology (or "psi research"). Each chapter comprehensively reviews a controversial topic from a critical stance, and updates its status based on the latest theoretical and empirical considerations. Chapter authors are authoritative experts in their fields who have captured the complexity and importance of their topics. This is a resource for both the serious scholar and interested follower of psi research, containing in-depth analyses and discussions of topics that cannot be found elsewhere. Topics include cross-examinations of psychical investigations; a meta-analysis of anomalous information collected by mediums; an examination of the relationships between parapsychology, quantum theory and neuroscience; and a study of psychics' involvement in police investigations.
List of contents
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Criticism, Proof, Process and Practical Applications
Stanley Krippner, Adam J. Rock, Harris L. Friedman and Nancy L. Zingrone
Too Strange to Be True? On Two Recent Efforts to Empirically Examine and Critically Assess Claims of Psychic Phenomena
Bryan J. Williams
A Meta-Analysis of Anomalous Information Reception by Mediums: Assessing the Forced-Choice Design in Mediumship Research, 2000-2020
Adam J. Rock, Einar B. Thorsteinsson, Patrizio E. Tressoldi and Natasha M. Loi
Parapsychology, Quantum Theory and Neuroscience
William G. Roll, Cheryl H. Alexander, Bryan J. Williams and Michael A. Persinger
Psychics and Police Investigations
Sybo A. Schouten
About the Contributors
Index
About the author
Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., former director of the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory, was a professor of psychology at Saybrook University for 47 years. He is a fellow in the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Association for Psychological Science.Adam J. Rock is a lecturer at the School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences at the University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia. His primary research interests are in the area of altered states of consciousness, mainly focused on shamanism, the conceptual problem of consciousness, and mediumship.Harris L. Friedman, Ph.D. is an associated distinguished consulting professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, an associated professor at the Salomons Institute for Applied Psychology at Canterbury Christ Church University (UK), and a visiting scholar at Harvard University. He retired as a research professor of psychology at the University of Florida.
