parapsychology
Telepathy field study
Parapsychology is the study of mental phenomena that lie outside conventional scientific explanation—telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis.
The field attempts to apply scientific methods to events mainstream psychology considers impossible or unproven.
The parapsychology lab tested subjects for extrasensory perception.
Most scientists regard it as pseudoscience.
Direct mental communication
- telekinesisMental object manipulation
- remote viewingAlleged psychic distance perception
- apparitionsSupernatural visible manifestations
- poltergeistsObject-throwing supernatural entities
hauntings · out-of-body experience · astral projection · levitation · mediumship · channelling · ectoplasm · psychometry
Major Central European waterway
- Zener cardsSymbols for ESP testing
- meta-analysisCombined study statistics
- replicationAct of duplicating precisely
- Duke UniversityPrivate Durham research institution
statistical significance · control group · double-blind · anomalous cognition · psi
One claiming supernatural perception
- mediumMiddle size or state
- clairvoyantOne who perceives beyond senses
- sensitiveEasily affected emotionally
- channelerOne who transmits spirits
spiritualist · remote viewer · parapsychologist · mentalist · faith healer · spirit guide · sitter · percipient
Spirit communication ritual
- reincarnationSoul's rebirth after death
- afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
- soulInnermost animating essence
- transmigrationSoul passing into another body
spiritualism · discarnate · possession · exorcism · Ouija · table-tipping
Proving claims false
- fraudIntentional criminal trickery
- cold readingGleaning information through shrewd observation
- hot readingPre-gathered info for fake psychics
- confirmation biasPreferring belief-supporting information
pseudoscience · placebo · magical thinking · apophenia · coincidence
telepathy
Direct mental communication
- telekinesisMental object manipulation
- remote viewingAlleged psychic distance perception
- apparitionsSupernatural visible manifestations
poltergeists · hauntings · out-of-body experience · astral projection · levitation · mediumship · channelling · ectoplasm · psychometry · aura reading
Rhine
Major Central European waterway
- Zener cardsSymbols for ESP testing
- meta-analysisCombined study statistics
- replicationAct of duplicating precisely
Duke University · statistical significance · control group · double-blind · anomalous cognition · psi
psychic
One claiming supernatural perception
- mediumMiddle size or state
- clairvoyantOne who perceives beyond senses
- sensitiveEasily affected emotionally
channeler · spiritualist · remote viewer · parapsychologist · mentalist · faith healer · spirit guide · sitter · percipient
séance
Spirit communication ritual
- reincarnationSoul's rebirth after death
- afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
- soulInnermost animating essence
transmigration · spiritualism · discarnate · possession · exorcism · Ouija · table-tipping
debunking
Proving claims false
- fraudIntentional criminal trickery
- cold readingGleaning information through shrewd observation
- hot readingPre-gathered info for fake psychics
confirmation bias · pseudoscience · placebo · magical thinking · apophenia · coincidence
- paranormalghosts, paranormal, haunting, apparition, paranormal phenomena
- para- wordsparachute, paragraph, parallel, paramedic, paradise
- pseudosciencehomeopathy, astrology, phrenology, numerology, palmistry
- psychic phenomenatelepathy, ESP, sixth sense, psychic, mind reading
- Fringe Sciencecold fusion, perpetual motion, alchemy, astrology, phrenology
- psychologytherapist, psychiatrist, neuropsychology, psychotherapy, memory
parapsychologyneuroscience
Study of nervous systems
cognitive science · clinical psychology · hard science · neuropsychology · psychophysics
parapsychologymaterialism
Prioritizing goods over spirit
physicalism · reductionism · empiricism · skepticism · rationalism
psyche, psychology, psychologist, psychological, clairvoyance, psychologists, poltergeist, extrasensory, precognition