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PA 2004 Convention Proceedings

These are contributions of authors that have given explicit authorization of on-line publication of their paper. Copyrights belong to the authors. All presented contributions are in the index-- Papers without hyperlinks do not yet have author permission. [Special thanks to Stefan Schmidt and Dick Bierman for their work facilitating these materials]
Floor Presentations:

Bosch, Holger

Reanalyzing a meta-analysis on ESP dating from 1940

1

Broughton, Richard S.

Exploring the reliability of the "presentiment" effect

15

Fox, Jezz &
Simmonds, Christine

Ruling out items in the judging set: a novel protocol for detecting psi in the Ganzfeld

27

Hinterberger, Thilo, Houtkooper, Joop M. & Kotchoubey, Boris

Effects of feedback control on slow cortical potentials and random events

39

Houtkooper, Joop M.

Exploring volitional strategies in the mind-machine interaction replication

51

Kittenis, Mario,
Caryl, Peter &
Stevens, Paul

Distant psychophysiological interaction effects between related and unrelated participants

67

Lobach, Eva &
Bierman, Dick

The invisible gaze: three attempts to replicate Sheldrake's staring effects

77

Lobach, Eva &
Bierman, Dick

Who is calling at this hour? Local sidereal time and telephone telepathy

91

Lucadou, Walter von & Zahradnik, Frauke

Predictions of the Model of Pragmatic Information about RSPK

99

May, Edwin C.

Anticipatory skin conductance responses: a possible example of decision augmentation theory

113

McClenon, James

What is to be done: evaluating the Ritual Healing Theory

121

Mulacz, Peter

Strange people -- rare events

135

Murray, Craig D. &
Fox, Jezz

Body image in respondents with and without prior out-of-body experiences

145

Pallikari, Fotini

On the false hypothesis of psi-mediated shift of statistical average in tests with random event generators

157

Palmer, John

Synchronicity and psi: how are they related?

173

Roe, Chris A.,
Davey, Russell & Stevens, Paul

Experimenter effects in laboratory tests of ESP and PK using a common protocol

185

Roe, Chris A. &
Holt, Nicola

A further consideration of the sender as a PK agent in Ganzfeld ESP studies

197

Roney-Dougal,
Serena M.
&
Solfvin, J.

Field study of an enhancement effect on lettuce seeds: working in adverse conditions

207

Savva, Louie,
Child, Robert &
Smith, Matthew D.

The precognitive habituation effect: an adaptation using spider stimuli

223

Sherwood, Simon J.,
Roe, Chris A.,
Holt, Nicola J. &
Wilson Stuart

Interpersonal psi: exploring the role of the experimenter and the experimental climate in a Ganzfeld telepathy tast

231

Schmidt, Stefan,
Müller, Susanne & Walach, Harald

Do you know who is on the phone? Replication of an experiment on telephone telepathy

245

Westerlund, Joakim, Parker, Adrian,
Dalkvist, Jan &
Goulding, Anneli

Remarkable correspondences between Ganzfeld mentation and target content -- psi or a cognitive illusion?

255

Westerlund, Joakim & Dalkvist, Jan

A test of predictions from five studies on telepathic group communication of emotions

269

Wiseman, Richard & Greening, Emma

"It's still bending": verbal suggestion and alleged psychokinetic ability

279

Wiseman, Richard & Watt, Caroline

Measuring superstitious belief: why lucky charms matter (paper accepted for publication in Personal & Ind. Differences)

291

Wiseman, Richard & O'Keeffe, Ciarán

Testing alleged mediumship. Methods and results

299

 

 

 

Poster Sessions:

Auriol, Bernhard M.,
Garcia, Frčdčric,
Puech, Laetitia, et al.

Agapč: group telepathy. A long-term experimental series

325

Boldyreva, Liudmila & Sotina, Nina B.

Classification of phenomena in parapsychology from the point of view of physics. Superfluid vacuum

347

Ertel, Suitbert

Psi test feats achieved alone at home: do they disappear under lab control?

355

Etzold, Eckhard

Does psi exist and can we prove it? Belief and disbelief in psychokinesis research

367

Hagel, Johannes & Tschapke, Margot

The local event detector (LED) -- an experimental setup for an exploratory study of correlations between collective emotional events and random number sequences

379

Hirukawa, Tatsu & Ishikawa, Masato

Anomalous fluctuation of RNG data in Nebuta summer festival in northeast Japan

389

McMoneagle, Joseph & May, Edwin C.

The possible role of intention, attention and expectation in remote viewing

399

Sartori, Luisa; Massaccesi, Stefano, Martinelli, Massimiliano & Tressoldi, Patrizio

Physiological correlates of ESP: heart rate differences between targets and non-targets in clairvoyance and precognition forced choice tasks

407

Shan, Gao

A primary quantum model of telepathy

413

Tam, Wai-Cheong Carl & Shiah, Yung-Jong

Paranormal belief, religiosity and cognitive complexity

423

 

 

 

Research Briefs:

Bem, Daryl J.

Precognitive avoidance and precognitive déjŕ vu

431

Holt, Nicola J.,
Delanoy, Deborah L. & Roe, Chris A.

Creativity, subjective paranormal experiences and altered states of consciousness

433

Ivtsan, Itai &
French, Christopher C.

Testing the validity of tarot cards: can we distinguish between a real and a control reading?

437

Krippner, Stanley

The dreams and visions of Eva Hellström

441

Joines, William T., Baumann, Stephen B., Kim, Jeremy, et al.

The measurement and characterization of charge accumulation and electromagnetic emission from bioenergy healers

445

Don, Norman S., McDonough, Bruce E. & Warren, Charles A.

Combining the event-related brain potential (ERP) and precognitive habituation techniques: a methodological proposal

449

Ramakers, Peter

Response characteristics and lability in an EDA-DMILS study using emotional stimuli

451

Simmonds, Christine A.

A qualitative investigation of source monitoring in the context of subjective paranormal experiences

455

Smith, Matthew D. & Savva, Louie

Experimenter effects and psi performance using a digital Autoganzfeld system

461

Wackermann, Jiři, Naranjo Muradás,
José Raúl &
Pütz, Peter

Event-related correlations between brain electrical activities of separated human subjects: preliminary results of a replication study

465

Wilson, Krissy & French, Christopher C.

Memory conformity and paranormal belief

469

     
Panel Discussions:
 

Perspectives in the study of mediumship
(Chair: Carlos S. Alvarado)
 
 

Alvarado, Carlos S.

On trances and spirit communicators: research ideas from the old literature

313

Reinsel, Ruth

Physical mediumship, macro-PK and the autonomic nervous system

314

Mulacz, Peter

Physical mediumship: open questions from the past ń a challenge for the future

315

Pilkington, Rosemarie

The mystery of ectoplasm

316

Haraldsson, Erlendur

A survey of mediums in Iceland

317

 

Counseling persons with exceptional experiences: the example of IGPP
(Chair: Eberhard Bauer)

 

Bauer, Eberhard

Introduction: counseling and mental hygiene -- the approach of the IGPP

319

Belz-Merk, Martina

The role of inconsistency and instability for the origin of exceptional experiences

321

Fach, Wolfgang

The phenomenology of exceptional experiences: an analysis of IGPP counseling cases

322

Kohls, Niko &
Walach, Harald

Exceptional experiences and mental health -- results and problems of a questionnaire study

323

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