Description
Book Synopsis This book consists of a collection of essays informing readers as to the contemporary status of selected cutting-edge issues in parapsychology (or psi research). Each chapter comprehensively reviews a controversial topic from a critical stance, and updates its status based on the latest theoretical and empirical considerations. Chapter authors are authoritative experts in their fields who have captured the complexity and importance of their topics. This is a resource for both the serious scholar and interested follower of psi research, containing in-depth analyses and discussions of topics that cannot be found elsewhere. Topics include cross-examinations of psychical investigations; a meta-analysis of anomalous information collected by mediums; an examination of the relationships between parapsychology, quantum theory and neuroscience; and a study of psychics'' involvement in police investigations.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Criticism, Proof, Process and Practical Applications
Stanley Krippner, Adam J. Rock, Harris L. Friedman and Nancy L. Zingrone 1
Too Strange to Be True? On Two Recent Efforts to Empirically Examine and Critically Assess Claims of Psychic Phenomena
Bryan J. Williams 15
A Meta-Analysis of Anomalous Information Reception by Mediums: Assessing the Forced-Choice Design in Mediumship Research, 2000–2020
Adam J. Rock, Einar B. Thorsteinsson, Patrizio E. Tressoldi and Natasha M. Loi 49
Parapsychology, Quantum Theory and Neuroscience
William G. Roll, Cheryl H. Alexander, Bryan J. Williams and Michael A. Persinger 70
Psychics and Police Investigations
Sybo A. Schouten 167
About the Contributors 219
Index 221
