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Weiner, Debra H (Ed) & Morris, Robert L (Ed)(1988). Research in parapsychology 1987: Abstracts and papers from the Thirtieth Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association, 1987.Lanham, MD, US: Scarecrow Press, Inc. (xiii, 215 pp) Abstract (from the publicity materials) Held at the University of Edinburgh in recognition of their newly founded Koestler Chair of Parapsychology, the thirtieth annual convention of the Parapsychological Association saw nearly 50 original presentations on empirical, methodological, philosophical, and historical themes. Abstracted in this volume, these papers, never before published, tackle such issues as psychokinesis research within competing theoretical frameworks; psychokinesis training; psychological, physiological, and perceptual correlates to psi (ESP and psychokinesis) performance; psi in dreams; belief and emotional factors in ESP; a preliminary test of psi in shamans; fraud, error, and potential artifact, and the psi controversy.
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