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Anomalistic psychology : exploring paranormal belief and experience, Christopher C. French and Anna Stone

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Provides an introduction to the psychology underlying paranormal beliefs and experience. The book covers psychological theories and experiments and examines the science at the heart of the subject. It also applies different psychological perspectives--including clinical, developmental, and cognitive approaches--to shed new light on the key debates.--
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eng
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xiv, 332 pages
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  • Introduction : What is anomalistic psychology? ; Just imagine ; Paranormal belief and experience ; Problems with defining the paranormal ; Measuring paranormal beliefs ; The relationship between anomalistic psychology and parapsychology
  • Individual differences : Gender ; Age ; Socio-economic status ; Race ; Marital status ; Cross-cultural comparisons ; The social marginality hypothesis ; Return to gender differences in paranormal belief ; Personality and related variables ; The fantasy-prone personality
  • Clinical perspectives : Personality measures associated with psychological well-being ; Psychosis, spirituality, and anomalous experiences
  • Developmental perspectives : Childhood beliefs: magical thinking and wishes ; Magical thinking from childhood to Adolescence and adulthood ; Superstition from childhood to adulthood ; The relationship between childhood magical thinking and obsessive-compulsive disorder ; The psychodynamic functions hypothesis
  • Psychobiological perspectives : REM sleep intrusions into the waking state ; Cortical arousal ; Temporal lobe hyperactivity ; Neural interconnectedness and transliminality ; Hemispheric dominance ; Out-of-body experiences ; Near-death experiences
  • Cognitive perspectives : Reasoning ability and critical thinking ; Syllogistic reasoning ; The danger of groupthink ; Misunderstanding of probabilities ; The specific example of regression to the mean ; Repetition avoidance ; The availability heuristic ; The representativeness heuristic ; Illusory correlation ; Illusory control ; Distorting the evidence ; Confirmation bias ; The Barnum effect ; Seeing forms in randomness ; Perceptual errors ; How faulty is our reasoning and perception? ; Selective scientific research ; Biases in memory ; Hindsight bias and selective memory ; False memory ; Individual differences
  • Social perspectives : Learning from parents ; Genetic transmission from parents to children ; Learning from peers ; Learning from observation of experts and practitioners ; Cold reading ; The influence of the media ; The role of formal (scientific) education ; The role of narrative convention ; Cultural traditions of paranormal belief ; The socio-cognitive view of hypnosis, false memories and multiple identities ; Houran and Lange's attributional model of paranormal belief and experience
  • Evolutionary perspectives : Thinking, fast and slow ; Patterns and meaning ; Religious concepts ; Anthropomorphism ; Agency ; Ghost-hunting for beginners ; Magical thinking as an adaptive cognitive tool
  • Integrating the different approaches: alien contact claims : Types of alien contact claim ; Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? ; Alien abductions: the ET hypothesis ; Alien abductions: psychological factors
  • Parapsychological perspectives : Can you tell who has sent you a message? ; Can you tell if someone is staring at you? ; Can you see an image or video shown to another person in a remote location? ; Can you describe remote locations without using the known senses? ; Consistently inconsistent findings? ; Can you obtain information about events before they occur? ; Can your thoughts influence the physical state of another person? ; Can you influence a physical object using only your mind? ; The survival hypothesis ; Conclusion and the way ahead
  • Philosophical perspectives : The scientific status of parapsychology ; Parapsychology and the mind-body problem
  • Future prospects of anomalistic psychology and parapsychology : Future prospects of anomalistic psychology ; Future prospects of parapsychology
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9781403995711
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Anomalistic psychology : exploring paranormal belief and experience
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Anomalistic psychology
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exploring paranormal belief and experience
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Christopher C. French and Anna Stone
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Language
eng
Summary
Provides an introduction to the psychology underlying paranormal beliefs and experience. The book covers psychological theories and experiments and examines the science at the heart of the subject. It also applies different psychological perspectives--including clinical, developmental, and cognitive approaches--to shed new light on the key debates.--
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French, Christopher C
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  • 130
  • 130.19
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BF1040
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.F73 2014
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non fiction
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Stone, Anna
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  • Parapsychology
  • Parapsychology
  • Parapsychology
  • Parapsychology
  • Aberglaube
  • Außersinnliche Wahrnehmung
  • Paranormales Erlebnis
  • Parapsychologie
  • Psiphänomen
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Anomalistic psychology : exploring paranormal belief and experience, Christopher C. French and Anna Stone
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-324) and index
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Introduction : What is anomalistic psychology? ; Just imagine ; Paranormal belief and experience ; Problems with defining the paranormal ; Measuring paranormal beliefs ; The relationship between anomalistic psychology and parapsychology -- Individual differences : Gender ; Age ; Socio-economic status ; Race ; Marital status ; Cross-cultural comparisons ; The social marginality hypothesis ; Return to gender differences in paranormal belief ; Personality and related variables ; The fantasy-prone personality -- Clinical perspectives : Personality measures associated with psychological well-being ; Psychosis, spirituality, and anomalous experiences -- Developmental perspectives : Childhood beliefs: magical thinking and wishes ; Magical thinking from childhood to Adolescence and adulthood ; Superstition from childhood to adulthood ; The relationship between childhood magical thinking and obsessive-compulsive disorder ; The psychodynamic functions hypothesis -- Psychobiological perspectives : REM sleep intrusions into the waking state ; Cortical arousal ; Temporal lobe hyperactivity ; Neural interconnectedness and transliminality ; Hemispheric dominance ; Out-of-body experiences ; Near-death experiences -- Cognitive perspectives : Reasoning ability and critical thinking ; Syllogistic reasoning ; The danger of groupthink ; Misunderstanding of probabilities ; The specific example of regression to the mean ; Repetition avoidance ; The availability heuristic ; The representativeness heuristic ; Illusory correlation ; Illusory control ; Distorting the evidence ; Confirmation bias ; The Barnum effect ; Seeing forms in randomness ; Perceptual errors ; How faulty is our reasoning and perception? ; Selective scientific research ; Biases in memory ; Hindsight bias and selective memory ; False memory ; Individual differences -- Social perspectives : Learning from parents ; Genetic transmission from parents to children ; Learning from peers ; Learning from observation of experts and practitioners ; Cold reading ; The influence of the media ; The role of formal (scientific) education ; The role of narrative convention ; Cultural traditions of paranormal belief ; The socio-cognitive view of hypnosis, false memories and multiple identities ; Houran and Lange's attributional model of paranormal belief and experience -- Evolutionary perspectives : Thinking, fast and slow ; Patterns and meaning ; Religious concepts ; Anthropomorphism ; Agency ; Ghost-hunting for beginners ; Magical thinking as an adaptive cognitive tool -- Integrating the different approaches: alien contact claims : Types of alien contact claim ; Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? ; Alien abductions: the ET hypothesis ; Alien abductions: psychological factors -- Parapsychological perspectives : Can you tell who has sent you a message? ; Can you tell if someone is staring at you? ; Can you see an image or video shown to another person in a remote location? ; Can you describe remote locations without using the known senses? ; Consistently inconsistent findings? ; Can you obtain information about events before they occur? ; Can your thoughts influence the physical state of another person? ; Can you influence a physical object using only your mind? ; The survival hypothesis ; Conclusion and the way ahead -- Philosophical perspectives : The scientific status of parapsychology ; Parapsychology and the mind-body problem -- Future prospects of anomalistic psychology and parapsychology : Future prospects of anomalistic psychology ; Future prospects of parapsychology
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24 cm
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xiv, 332 pages
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9781403995711
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Anomalistic psychology : exploring paranormal belief and experience, Christopher C. French and Anna Stone
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-324) and index
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Contents
Introduction : What is anomalistic psychology? ; Just imagine ; Paranormal belief and experience ; Problems with defining the paranormal ; Measuring paranormal beliefs ; The relationship between anomalistic psychology and parapsychology -- Individual differences : Gender ; Age ; Socio-economic status ; Race ; Marital status ; Cross-cultural comparisons ; The social marginality hypothesis ; Return to gender differences in paranormal belief ; Personality and related variables ; The fantasy-prone personality -- Clinical perspectives : Personality measures associated with psychological well-being ; Psychosis, spirituality, and anomalous experiences -- Developmental perspectives : Childhood beliefs: magical thinking and wishes ; Magical thinking from childhood to Adolescence and adulthood ; Superstition from childhood to adulthood ; The relationship between childhood magical thinking and obsessive-compulsive disorder ; The psychodynamic functions hypothesis -- Psychobiological perspectives : REM sleep intrusions into the waking state ; Cortical arousal ; Temporal lobe hyperactivity ; Neural interconnectedness and transliminality ; Hemispheric dominance ; Out-of-body experiences ; Near-death experiences -- Cognitive perspectives : Reasoning ability and critical thinking ; Syllogistic reasoning ; The danger of groupthink ; Misunderstanding of probabilities ; The specific example of regression to the mean ; Repetition avoidance ; The availability heuristic ; The representativeness heuristic ; Illusory correlation ; Illusory control ; Distorting the evidence ; Confirmation bias ; The Barnum effect ; Seeing forms in randomness ; Perceptual errors ; How faulty is our reasoning and perception? ; Selective scientific research ; Biases in memory ; Hindsight bias and selective memory ; False memory ; Individual differences -- Social perspectives : Learning from parents ; Genetic transmission from parents to children ; Learning from peers ; Learning from observation of experts and practitioners ; Cold reading ; The influence of the media ; The role of formal (scientific) education ; The role of narrative convention ; Cultural traditions of paranormal belief ; The socio-cognitive view of hypnosis, false memories and multiple identities ; Houran and Lange's attributional model of paranormal belief and experience -- Evolutionary perspectives : Thinking, fast and slow ; Patterns and meaning ; Religious concepts ; Anthropomorphism ; Agency ; Ghost-hunting for beginners ; Magical thinking as an adaptive cognitive tool -- Integrating the different approaches: alien contact claims : Types of alien contact claim ; Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? ; Alien abductions: the ET hypothesis ; Alien abductions: psychological factors -- Parapsychological perspectives : Can you tell who has sent you a message? ; Can you tell if someone is staring at you? ; Can you see an image or video shown to another person in a remote location? ; Can you describe remote locations without using the known senses? ; Consistently inconsistent findings? ; Can you obtain information about events before they occur? ; Can your thoughts influence the physical state of another person? ; Can you influence a physical object using only your mind? ; The survival hypothesis ; Conclusion and the way ahead -- Philosophical perspectives : The scientific status of parapsychology ; Parapsychology and the mind-body problem -- Future prospects of anomalistic psychology and parapsychology : Future prospects of anomalistic psychology ; Future prospects of parapsychology
Control code
ocn868956828
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xiv, 332 pages
Isbn
9781403995711
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
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  • (Sirsi) i9781403995711
  • (OCoLC)868956828

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