Some measures of re l ig iosity, bel ief in an after l i fe , and bel ief in psychic phenomena were included in eight forced-choice ESP experiments. Seven of the experiments consisted of 40 trials of clairvoyance as a computer game and 40 trials of precognition in a paper-and-pencil test for each subject; and in one experiment there were 80 trials of clairvoyance. A combined measure of religios...

Aggression continues to be a problematic, ill-defined concept for most contemporary analysts. Questions about the nature and origin of aggression remain unanswered. On the one hand, aggression is conceived of as an instinctual drive; on the other, it is thought to originate as an instrument of reaction to external sources of frustration and environmental failures to meet developmental needs. Ag...

There are many psychic mechanisms by which people engage with their selves. We argue that an important yet hitherto neglected one is self-appraisal via meta-emotions. We discuss the intentional structure of meta-emotions and explore the phenomenology of a variety of examples. We then present a pilot study providing preliminary evidence that some facial displays may indicate the presence of meta...

In this paper, a psychologically-inspired model for an Iterative Prisoner’s dilemma (IPD) agent is proposed. This model is inspired by the “psychic apparatus” theory that was developed by Sigmund Freud in 1940. The model captures an agent with a true “character” by concurrently supporting the three constructs of personality: the Super-Ego, which represents the ideal part of the agent that alway...