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{"title":"Predictors of Hearing Electronic Voice Phenomena in Random Noise: Schizotypy, Fantasy Proneness, and Paranormal Beliefs","authors":"K. Drinkwater, Andrew Denovan, Neil Dagnall, Andrew Parker","doi":"10.30891/jopar.2020.01.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30891/jopar.2020.01.09","url":null,"abstract":"This study used a modified White Christmas task to examine reports of electronic voice phenomena (EVP) within random noise. Following familiarization with the concept of EVP, 107 participants listened to an audio track combining white and pink noise. Instructions directed participants to press a keyboard button to indicate if they heard EVP. At the end of the track, participants provided an overall confidence rating of EVP perception. Thirty-nine participants (36%) reported the presence of EVP. Comparisons between EVP experiencers vs. non-experiencers on cognitive-perceptual (schizotypy, hallucinations, and fantasy proneness) and paranormal belief measures (general and haunting) revealed no significant differences. A path analysis indicated that belief in haunting mediated the relations between paranormal belief and hallucination proneness with EVP outcomes (number and confidence). However, fantasy proneness and schizotypy did not have significant relations with EVP. Results were consistent with previous findings, where participants imagine hearing the famous White Christmas song. Within this study, a non-trivial minority of participants experienced EVP as a form of belief congruent hallucination. These findings support the notion that anomalous beliefs provide a framework for structuring unusual cognitions and perceptions.","PeriodicalId":39641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Parapsychology","volume":"84 1","pages":"96-113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49149460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: A Kulturträger Keeps Time. A review of Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences out of Time and Self","authors":"E. Cardeña","doi":"10.30891/jopar.2020.01.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30891/jopar.2020.01.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Parapsychology","volume":"84 1","pages":"143-145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47655734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: A Far Ranging Tour of All Things Psi. A Review of Our Secret Powers: Telepathy, Clairvoyance, and Precognition. A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal","authors":"George R. Williams","doi":"10.30891/jopar.2020.01.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30891/jopar.2020.01.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Parapsychology","volume":"84 1","pages":"136-139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41668492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Parapsychology and the Nervous System. A Review of Neurociencias en la Frontera con lo Paranormal: Comprender lo Inexplicable en las Redes del Cerebro","authors":"C. Alvarado","doi":"10.30891/jopar.2020.01.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30891/jopar.2020.01.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Parapsychology","volume":"84 1","pages":"140-142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45167508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: A Comprehensive History of Parapsychology in France. A Review of Enquéte sur 150 Ans de Parapsychologie: La Légende de l’Esprit","authors":"M. Biondi","doi":"10.30891/jopar.2020.01.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30891/jopar.2020.01.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Parapsychology","volume":"84 1","pages":"133-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49083140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pieces of the Psi Puzzle and a Recipe for Ganzfeld Success","authors":"E. Cardeña","doi":"10.30891/jopar.2020.01.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30891/jopar.2020.01.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Parapsychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47672337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In Memoriam: Mary Rose Barrington","authors":"P. Mulacz","doi":"10.30891/jopar.2020.01.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30891/jopar.2020.01.02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Parapsychology","volume":"84 1","pages":"8-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45410331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Changes in State of Consciousness and Psi in Ganzfeld and Hypnosis Conditions","authors":"E. Cardeña, David Marcusson-Clavertz","doi":"10.30891/jopar.2020.01.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30891/jopar.2020.01.07","url":null,"abstract":"In a previous experiment with participants high (Highs) and low (Lows) in hypnotizability,psi z scores had moderate to strong correlations with percipients’ belief of their success and theirprevious ostensible psi experiences, experiencing an Altered State of Consciousness and other alterationsof consciousness during a non-psi ganzfeld session, but only among the Highs. The currentpre-registered study had a larger N of only Highs, evaluated in hypnosis and hypnosis + ganzfeldprocedures. Participants (N = 35) served as “receivers” in two 20 min sessions of ganzfeld or hypnosisin counterbalanced order. Both sessions used hypnosis verbalizations, but only one of them hadsensory homogenization. The authors served as “sender” and “experimenter” in different buildings.As an index of experienced alterations of consciousness, participants filled out the Phenomenologyof Consciousness Inventory (PCI) at the beginning and end of the sessions, and gave a rating of0-100 to 4 film clips (one of them the target), from which psi z scores were derived. Overall, participantsdid not score better than chance and there was no difference between the conditions. However,for the ganzfeld sessions psi scores correlated moderately (r = .40, p = .02) with the PCI AlteredState shift scores (ganzfeld - baseline scores). Although the overall psi rate was not significant, wefound a relation between psi scoring and experiencing an Altered State in ganzfeld psi sessions. (Less)","PeriodicalId":39641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Parapsychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47873653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Performance at a Precognitive Remote Viewing Task, with and without Ganzfeld Stimulation: Three Experiments","authors":"C. Roe, C. E. Cooper, L. Hickinbotham, Andrew Hodrien, L. Kirkwood, H. Martin","doi":"10.30891/jopar.2020.01.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30891/jopar.2020.01.06","url":null,"abstract":"Recent research by the lead author has sought to incorporate ganzfeld stimulation as part of a remote viewing protocol. An initial exploratory experiment (Roe & Flint, 2007) suggested that novice participants can successfully describe a randomly selected target location while in the ganzfeld context but did not make a direct comparison with performance in a waking state. This paper describes a series of three subsequent experiments that compared performance at a remote viewing task in a waking condition with a ganzfeld stimulation condition using a counterbalanced repeated measures design. There were only minor variations in design across the three experiments to enable combination of data in a summary analysis. In total, 110 participants produced 43 hits in the ganzfeld stimulation condition (39%), giving a highly significant positive deviation from chance expectation (sum of ranks = 225, p = .000012), whereas in the waking RV condition they achieved 30 hits (27.5%), which is marginally better than chance expectation (sum of ranks = 253, p = .034). The difference in z scores for target ratings in the two conditions approached significance (t[39] = 1.86, p = .065). In experiment 1, individual difference measures identified as predictors of psi performance were unrelated to target ratings. Participants completed Pekala’s (1991) Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory (PCI) in order to gauge their responsiveness to the ganzfeld protocol and of the 12 sub-dimensions tested, ganzfeld performance correlated significantly with greater absorption in their subjective experience, lower arousal, and less internal dialogue. In experiments 2 and 3 individual differences measure were replaced by measures of transliminality, openness to experience, and dissociative experiences, but these were unrelated to task success. Data from experiment 2 did not confirm the findings using the PCI from experiment 1, though a significant association was found with the time sense dimension. In experiment 3 no PCI dimensions correlated with task performance, a pattern that was confirmed when data were combined across all three experiments. Remote viewing (RV) can be defined as “the ability to perceive and to be able to describe what would be experienced if one were at some specified distant location” (after Hansel, 1989, p. 160). Al1 We should like to thank the Perrott-Warrick Fund, the Society for Psychical Research Research Grants Committee and the Parapsychological Association Research Endowment (PARE) Fund for their kind financial support of the experiments included in this series. Address correspondence to: Prof. Chris Roe, Faculty of Health, Education & Society, The University of Northampton, University Drive, , Northampton NN1 5PH, UK. © 2020 Roe et al. http://doi.org/10.30891/jopar2020.01.06 Journal of Parapsychology 2020, Vol. 84, No. 1, 38-65 Open Access This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which per","PeriodicalId":39641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Parapsychology","volume":"84 1","pages":"38-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41762884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ganzfeld-ESP: Three Reports and Looking Ahead","authors":"R. Stanford","doi":"10.30891/jopar.2020.01.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30891/jopar.2020.01.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39641,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Parapsychology","volume":"84 1","pages":"14-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45523563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}