Both parapsychologists and skeptics have interests in investigating the nature of belief in the paranormal, albeit with somewhat different objectives in mind. Despite substantial variation across studies in the definition of the scope of paranormal belief, some degree of order can be imposed on the empirical literature by taking due account of the multidimensionality of paranormal belief. In th...

Hyperscanning—the recording of brain activity from multiple individuals—can be hard to interpret. This paper shows how integrating behavioral data and mutual prediction models into hyperscanning studies can lead advances in embodied social neuroscience. Social interaction is central our cognition health. Our actions decision-making everyday life are heavily influenced by others, atypical intera...

The article has the purpose of making readily available for scrutiny primary sources relating to studies that give evidence of psi-phenomena. Although the list is not offered as providing compelling evidence or “proof” of psi, it is meant to provide a strong case for a recruitment of resources. The effects are not marginal or nonreplicable ones although it is clear that in many cases they appea...

The article begins with a discussion about what might constitute consciousness in entities other than oneself and the implications of the mind–brain debate for the possibility of a conscious machine. While referring to several other facets of the philosophy of mind, the author focuses on epiphenomenalism and interactionism and presents a critique of the former in terms of biological evolution. ...

The United Kingdom’s ‘hostile environment for immigrants’ is having distressing effects on people of African Caribbean heritage, especially those who have been threatened with deportation. While some research demonstrates a strong connection between the threat deportation (deportability) and abjection, deportable migrants may also develop strategies (e.g. religious participation) to work around...

Postcolonial Vietnam is characterized by the interplay between necropolitics and necrosociality, as practiced respectively militarized state a society that traditionally maintains relations with dead. This key to understanding conflicts in over bones of unidentified war On one hand, such can challenge state's sovereignty when it assumes responsibility taking care them. other they exert strong p...

This is the second part of a two-part article that provides in-depth background information and a critical examination of a phenomenon that has importance not only to transpersonal psychology but also to psychology and science more generally – the protracted Marian apparition at Medjugorje. Part 1 presented an outer history of the case and examined the phenomenon from the perspectives of critic...