PRESENT-DAY PSYCHOLOGY. A. A. Roback, Editor, with the collaboration of forty experts in the variouis fields. New York, Philosophical Library. 1955. xiv, 995 pp. $12.00. In this volume an attempt is made to survey the entire field of contemporary psychology, incltudinig not only the traditional topics of academlic psychological interest, such as perception, cognition, attention, emotionl, etc.,...

This participatory team science project extended Laythe and Houran’s (2022) prior application of a famous probabilistic argument known as the "Drake equation" to question postmortem survival. Specifically, we evaluated effect sizes from peer-reviewed, empirical studies determine maximum average percentage that ostensibly supports (i.e., "anomalous effects") or refutes "known confounds") surviva...

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...

Reviews is based on a detailed review of primary material, but he could have cited more secondary sources, which he no doubt consulted, especially when dealing with the earlier periods. The opinion arising from his study is that parapsychology has not been proven, and he concludes with a chapter on psychical research today. It is now becoming a more respectable subject for investigation and thi...

According to the prevailing view in biology, the driving force for biological evolution is self-serving enhancement of reproductive and associated material success through competition and struggle for existence. However, the evolution of consciousness in humans has resulted in symbolic thought and culture that can disengage from the instinctive self-interests underlying evolution. This evolutio...

Electronic voice phenomenon (EVP) refers to the purported manifestation of voices of the dead and other discarnate entities through electronic means. This has typically involved tuning radios between stations and recording the output on audiotape, although more recently anomalous voices, visual images and text have purportedly been found using telephones, television sets and computers in a phen...

Paranormal beliefs and experiences are associated with certain personality factors, including absorption, fantasy proneness, and the Myers-Briggs intuition and feeling personality dimensions. Skepticism appears to be associated with materialistic, rational, pragmatic personality types. Attitude toward psi may also be influenced by motivations to have control and efficacy, to have a sense of mea...

For generations, the history of mesmerism and animal magnetism has been trivialized in inaccurate, anecdotal, sensationalistic accounts. However, with these two massive, intricately detailed, and admirably comprehensive studies, this has changed. Practitioners generally require a present-day context for studying a medical-historical figure or movement; the inspirations for these two volumes are...

Internal patterns in the PRL autoganzfeld database may shed some light on the plausibility of that hypothesis. This hypothesis would predict stronger effects for sessions where the subject is not sure about his ratings, because in those sessions the experimenter may be able to influence him or her into another direction. A secondary analysis where the scoring in sessions with an extreme rating ...

Parapsychological Review A} I have a serious concern that I would like to present to the physics community at large. It appears to me that there is a small but dedicated group of scientists—some with quite respectable reputations—who nevertheless dabble in things that most of us would not call science. (The terms "pseudoscience" and "pathological science" come to mind.) Occasionally attempts ar...