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An attempt to predict
precognition scores using transliminality-relevant variables. |
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sexta, 10 setembro 2004 |
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Thalbourne, Michael A (1996). An attempt to predict precognition
scores using transliminality-relevant variables. Journal of the Society
for Psychical Research, 61(844), (pp. 129-140) Abstract "Transliminality"-or "the ability to cross
the threshold"-is the name that has been given to the common factor that has
been found to underlie creative personality, mystical experience,
psychopathology of the schizotypal and manic-depressive kind, and belief in
and alleged experience of the paranormal. Other core constituents of
transliminality are religiosity, frequency of dream-interpretation and
fantasy-proneness. Other correlates include dream-recall and hyperaesthesia.
A questionnaire containing a subset of these variables (and some others) was
completed by 99 First-Year Psychology students, along with Beloff\'s
10-item "Consumer\'s Choice" test of precognition. Though the core
transliminality-relevant variables intercorrelated significantly-component
analysis yielding a single underlying factor-and though they correlated
significantly with several additional measures, none of the variables was
significantly related to the precognition scores. It is suggested that a
!different test of ESP might yield more success.
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