Telepathy and emotional stimuli: A controlled experiment.

Moss, Thelma; Gengerelli, J. A.

doi:10.1037/h0024760

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“…Some of the findings mentioned in the two previous paragraphs seem highly compatible with those reported by Moss and Gengerelli (1967), an experiment unfortunately seen only after the present data were gathered. In the 1967 study evidence of QSC was obtained when the sender was aroused by emotional stimuli, but the receiver was relaxed.…”

Section: Accuracy and Arousalsupporting

confidence: 91%

“…The authors believe that the growing number of observations of QSC made in the laboratory under controlled conditions (e.g., Duane & Behrendt, 1965;Krippner, 1968;Moss & Gengerelli, 1967) is leading to an increased readiness to reexamine alleged phenomena which heretofore have been summarily dismissed. For instance, Lyons (1965, p. 215) has speculated as to the possible relation between ESP and the worrisome "experimenter bias" documented by Rosenthal (1966).…”

Section: Accuracy and Arousalmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Quasi-sensory communication: An investigation using semantic matching and accentuated affect.

McBain¹,

Fox²,

Kimura³

et al. 1970

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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From the premise that quasi-sensory communication (QSC) is based on a primitive, undeveloped ability, a model was developed and an experiment designed to show it in an unselected population. From 11 student volunteers, screened only for hypnotic susceptibility, 22 were paired for similarity of concept ratings on the semantic differential. After posthypnotic suggestions to accentuate affective reactions to specific concepts, close rapport with partners, and ability to concentrate, team members both sent and received random lists of those concepts in three weekly sessions. Controls included physical isolation, automated presentation, and objective recording. Correct guesses (hits) were higher than chance (# = .025), related to hypnotizability of sender (>-=.64, p<.Ql), and greater for like-than unlike-sex teams (£ = .001), findings incompatible with alternative hypotheses based on chance or inadequate control.

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Quasi-sensory communication: An investigation using semantic matching and accentuated affect.

McBain¹,

Fox²,

Kimura³

et al. 1970

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…Psychologists have begun to feel it appropriate to study ESP, after several decades of treating this topic as taboo. Almost all of this recent effort has gone into exploring the nature and extent of such ESP effects as might really exist (Child, 1973;Lay ton & Turnbull, 1975;McBain, Fox, Kimura, Nakanishi, & Tirado, 1970;Moss, Chang, & Levitt, 1970;Moss & Gengerelli, 1967). From a social psychological standpoint, however, what may be even more interesting is the question of how people come to believe in ESP, in general, and in their own experience.…”

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ESP and ESB: Belief in personal success at mental telepathy.

Ayeroff¹,

Abelson²

1976

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Subject pairs undertook 100 trials in each of which the sender tried to transmit mentally one of five possible symbols to the receiver in another room. After each trial both members indicated whether they believed a hit had been scored. These hunches or "extrasensible beliefs" (ESB) were compared across two experimental variations. For half of the pairs (choice and involvement condition) the members chose the symbol set to be used, and the sender shuffled and dealt the symbol deck. Orthogonally, for half of the pairs there was a warm-up period (communicative experience condition) during which members discussed their telepathic technique. It was predicted and strongly confirmed that both of these variations would independently increase ESB. It was also found that senders had higher ESB than receivers. These belief variations were entirely independent of actual telepathic success (ESP), which was no different from chance levels. The results are interpreted within the framework of Langer's "illusion of control" theory that people behave in chance situations as though in skill situations, to the extent that skill-related cues are situationally present.

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“…However, psychology has the problem that certain scientific investigations have tried to statistically contrast the occurrence of some apparently impossible experiences and obtained significant results. This is the case for pre-cognition (e.g., Tressoldi et al, 2009;Bem, 2011;Mossbridge et al, 2012;McCraty and Atkinson, 2014;Bem et al, 2016;Mossbridge and Radin, 2018), telepathy (e.g., Moss and Gengerelli, 1967;Krippner and Ullman, 1970;Honorton, 1985;Sheldrake and Avraamides, 2009), the anomalous reception of information or mediumship (e.g., Beischel and Schwartz, 2007;Kelly and Arcangel, 2011;Sudduth, 2013;Beischel et al, 2015), and the mind-matter interaction (e.g., Radin, 2006;Tressoldi et al, 2014). Studies of core "psi" phenomena experiences (see Cardeña, 2018;Jinks, 2019), such as these facilitate discussion regarding the possibility of the existence of alternative phenomena that transgress the bases of human perception (e.g., Utts, 2018;Cardeña, 2019).…”

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The Multivariable Multiaxial Suggestibility Inventory-2 (MMSI-2): A Psychometric Alternative to Measure and Explain Supernatural Experiences

2021

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This paper presents the English adaptation of the Multivariable Multiaxial Suggestibility Inventory-2 (MMSI-2), a questionnaire developed specifically for psychological assessment and prediction of anomalous phenomena. The sample consisted of 613 respondents from England (47.6% were women and 52.4% men). All of them were of legal age (mean = 34.5; standard deviation = 8.15). An exploratory factor analysis was applied, and three confirmatory factor models were adjusted. Omega coefficients and test-retest designs were used for reliability analysis. The MMSI-2 has a valid internal structure consisting of five macrofactors: Clinical Personality Tendencies (CPT), Anomalous Perceived Phenomena (APP), Incoherent Manipulations (IMA), Altered States of Consciousness (ASC), and Openness (OP). Omega coefficients for CPT and OP factors were low but acceptable. Furthermore, test-retest trials were excellent for all scales and factors. The psychological factors CPT, IMA, and ASC predicted 18.3% of the variance of anomalous experiences (APP). The authors concluded the English MMSI-2 was a valid and reliable test for the evaluation of anomalous phenomena but recommend that subsequent research reviews the predictive quality of the underlying model.

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Telepathy and emotional stimuli: A controlled experiment.

Cited by 15 publications

References 3 publications

Quasi-sensory communication: An investigation using semantic matching and accentuated affect.

Quasi-sensory communication: An investigation using semantic matching and accentuated affect.

ESP and ESB: Belief in personal success at mental telepathy.

The Multivariable Multiaxial Suggestibility Inventory-2 (MMSI-2): A Psychometric Alternative to Measure and Explain Supernatural Experiences

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