Basic Research in Parapsychology, 2d ed. / Edition 2

by K. Ramakrishna Rao

Overview

This expanded and revised text includes thirteen experimental reports (five new to this edition) and seven review articles involving meta-analysis and the assessment of evidence in specific areas of psi research. The author provides a representative sample of the extensive literature in the controversial field of parapsychology and presents a few basic experiments illustrating various procedures and broadly reflecting the major trends of psi research. Possible experimental procedures, cumulative evidence showing the replicability of individual experiments, and promising areas of psi research are also discussed.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786410088
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	05/14/2001
Edition description:	2ND
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.83(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Professor K. Ramakrishna Rao is a philosopher and psychologist with expertise in Indian psychology, consciousness studies and parapsychological research. He has published nearly 200 research papers and 15 books, and has served as the executive director of the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man; as founder, head and professor of the Department of Psychology and Parapsychology, and vice-chancellor, Andhra University; and currently as president of the Asian Congress of Philosophy.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface     

1. Introduction: Reality, Replicability, and Lawfulness of Psi     
2. A Review of the Pearce-Pratt Distance Series of ESP Tests     
3. PK Tests with a High-Speed Random Number Generator     
4. Correlations of Random Binary Sequences with Pre-Stated Operator Intention: A Review of a 12-Year Program     
5. Statistically Robust Anomalous Effects: Replication in Random Event Generator Experiments     
6. Transcontinental Remote Viewing     
7. An Assessment of the Evidence for Psychic Functioning     
8. A Laboratory Approach to the Nocturnal Dimension of Paranormal Experience: Report of a Confirmatory Study Using the REM Monitoring Technique     
9. Psychology and Anomalous Observations: The Question of ESP in Dreams     
10. Experimenter Effects and the Remote Detection of Staring     
11. Personality Characteristics of ESP Subjects: III. Extraversion and ESP     
12. Extraversion and ESP Performance: A Meta-Analysis and a New Confirmation     
13. Comments on the Extraversion-ESP Meta-Analysis by Honorton, Ferrari, and Bem     
14. Further Studies of Relaxation as a Psi-Conducive State     
15. ESP Card Tests of College Students with and without Hypnosis     
16. Hypnotic Induction vs. Control Conditions: Illustrating an Approach to the Evaluation of Replicability in Parapsychological Data     
17. Yogic Meditation and Psi Scoring in Forced-Choice and Free-Response Tests     
18. Meta-Analysis of Psi Ganzfeld Research: A Response to Hyman     
19. Does Psi Exist? Replicable Evidence for an Anomalous Process of Information Transfer     

Contributors     
Bibliography     
Index     

Editorial Reviews

a well-chosen set of research reports in experimental parapsychology...informative”—Choice; “at last!...excellent...most interesting, informative, and provocative...the spectacular results will excite a student’s interest and thus prepare well for lectures on related group studies or relevant theory”—The Journal of Parapsychology; “a useful volume to have at hand”—Journal of the Society for Psychical Research; “intriguing...a useful resource”—Contemporary Psychology; “excellent...highly recommended”—SSC Booknews; “worthwhile...useful”—Fate; “it is the only source-book of its kind”—Light; “very worthwhile”—Journal of Scientific Exploration.

From the Publisher

a useful volume to have at hand

Journal of the Society for Psychical Research

at last!...excellent...most interesting, informative, and provocative...the spectacular results will excite a student's interest and thus prepare well for lectures on related group studies or relevant theory

The Journal of Parapsychology

a well-chosen set of research reports in experimental parapsychology...informative

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