parapsychology
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Parapsychology is the scientific study of phenomena that seem to fall outside the normal laws of physics, such as ghost sightings and other unexplained experiences. It matters to some people because these experiences have fascinated humans throughout history, as seen in the popularity of spirit photography during the 19th century.
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Research
1,218 papers- Philippine parapsychology.Explore (New York, N.Y.) · 2024
- Parapsychology and its implications.International journal of neuropsychiatry · 1966
- [Parapsychology and quackery].Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) · 1973
- [Occultism, parapsychology and the esoteric from the perspective of psychopathology].Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie · 1998
- Searching for the impossible: Parapsychology's elusive quest.The American psychologist · 2020
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Article
32 sectionsContents
- Terminology
- History
- Early psychical research
- Rhine era
- Establishment of the Parapsychological Association
- Stargate Project
- 1970s and 1980s
- Modern era
- Research
- Scope
- Experimental research
- Ganzfeld
- Remote viewing
- Psychokinesis on random number generators
- Direct mental interactions with living systems
- Dream telepathy
- Near-death experiences
- Reincarnation research
- Scientific reception
- Evaluation
- Physics
- Pseudoscience
- Fraud
- Criticism of experimental results
- The psi assumption
- Selection bias and meta-analysis
- Anomalistic psychology
- Skeptic organizations
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, teleportation, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry) and other paranormal claims, for example, those related to near-death experiences, synchronicity, apparitional experiences, etc. Criticized as being a pseudoscience, the majority of mainstream scientists reject it. Parapsychology has been criticized for continuing investigation despite being unable to provide reproducible evidence for the existence of any psychic phenomena after more than a century of research.