Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century is a successor to an earlier Handbook of Parapsychology published 38 years ago (Wolman, 1977). The authors of the present Handbook discuss the relevant empirical, methodological, and conceptual developments that have taken place in the field of parapsychology since then. It is a high-level book written primarily for academic scholars and graduate ...

Parapsychology, the laboratory study of psychic phenomena, has had its history interwoven with that of statistics. Many of the controversies in parapsychology have focused on statistical issues, and statistical models have played an integral role in the experimental work. Recently, parapsychologists have been using meta-analysis as a tool for synthesizing large bodies of work. This paper presen...

Caroline Watt's (2005) thoughtful and stimulating presidential address to the Parapsychology Association raised several points that could help parapsychology. For example, she pointed out that the proposals in a recent article by me on "A Proposal and Challenge for Proponents and Skeptics of Psi" (Kennedy, 2004a) would enhance the evidential value of meta-analysis. That point is true, but it ma...

This article considers the extraordinary phenomena that have been central to unorthodox areas of psychological knowledge. It shows how even the agreed facts relating to mesmerism, spiritualism, psychical research, and parapsychology have been framed as evidence both for and against the reality of the phenomena. It argues that these disputes can be seen as a means through which beliefs have been...

Scientific investigation of the paranormal is ignored in France, and it has been suggested that this is the reason for the proliferation of irrational beliefs there. This article examines that thesis. Media coverage of parapsychology in France and the UK are compared. Research in parapsychology is almost completely disregarded by the French media but is well reported by the British media. Howev...