parapsychologists
Telepathy field investigators
Parapsychologists are researchers who study phenomena that fall outside conventional scientific explanation—telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, and communication with the dead.
The field occupies contested ground between academic psychology and the occult: Parapsychologists have investigated claims of ESP since the 1930s.
Most mainstream scientists regard the discipline with skepticism.
Direct mental communication
- clairvoyanceExtrasensory perception ability
- precognitionParanormal future awareness
- psychokinesisMind-powered object manipulation
- telekinesisMental object manipulation
apparition · poltergeist · haunting · mediumship · psychometry · levitation · ectoplasm · reincarnation
One who studies nature
- scholarLearned, studious person
- researcherOne who studies systematically
- professorSenior university teacher
- publicationIssued written material
university · laboratory · credentials · doctorate · journal · conference · dissertation · grant
Disposition toward doubt
- debunkingProving claims false
- fraudIntentional criminal trickery
- criticismJudgment of faults
- pseudoscienceBogus methodology posing as factual
credibility · hoax · charlatan · proof · validation
Formal procedural framework
- experimentationSystematic testing of ideas
- hypothesisTestable proposed explanation
- dataFacts for analysis
- observationAttentive watching or remark
fieldwork · documentation · findings · analysis · evidence · inquiry · skepticism · empirical
telepathy
Direct mental communication
- clairvoyanceExtrasensory perception ability
- precognitionParanormal future awareness
- psychokinesisMind-powered object manipulation
telekinesis · apparition · poltergeist · haunting · mediumship · psychometry · levitation · ectoplasm · reincarnation · psi
scientist
One who studies nature
- scholarLearned, studious person
- researcherOne who studies systematically
- professorSenior university teacher
publication · university · laboratory · credentials · doctorate · journal · conference · dissertation · grant · faculty
skepticism
Disposition toward doubt
pseudoscience · credibility · hoax · charlatan · proof · validation
methodology
Formal procedural framework
- experimentationSystematic testing of ideas
- hypothesisTestable proposed explanation
- dataFacts for analysis
observation · fieldwork · documentation · findings · analysis · evidence · inquiry · skepticism · empirical · study
parapsychologistsneuropsychologists
Clinicians studying brain-behavior relationships
parapsychologistsskeptics
Those who doubt claims
debunkers · materialists · rationalists · Carl Sagan · naturalists