A computerized symbol-identifying experiment was conducted to test Thalbourne’s (2004) concept of the ‘‘pro attitude’’ (an attitude towards a favorable outcome in a normal or paranormal task). Participants were required to identify the correct symbols randomly presented on computer in a run of 50 trials. Skeptics were given a second run. After each run, hit-rates were presented on screen. A sub...

For those with true near-death experiences (NDEs), Greyson's (1983, 1990) NDE Scale satisfactorily fits the Rasch rating scale model, thus yielding a unidimensional measure with interval-level scaling properties. With increasing intensity, NDEs reflect peace, joy and harmony, followed by insight and mystical or religious experiences, while the most intense NDEs involve an awareness of things oc...

Previous literature on religion and sexual behavior has focused on narrow definitions of religiosity, including religious affiliation, religious participation, or forms of religiousness (e.g., intrinsic religiosity). Trends toward more permissive premarital sexual activity in the North American Christian-Judeo religion support the secularization hypothesis of religion, which posits an increasin...

Previous research suggests that implicit sequence learning (ISL) is superior for believers in the paranormal and individuals with increased cerebral dopamine. Thirty-five healthy participants performed feedback-guided anticipations of four arrow directions. A 100-trial random sequence preceded two 100-trial biased sequences in which visual targets (arrows) on trial t tended to be displaced 90 d...

We consider the problem of estimating sparse precision matrix of Gaussian copula distributions using samples with missing values in high dimensions. Existing approaches, primarily designed for Gaussian distributions, suggest using plugin estimators by disregarding the missing values. In this paper, we propose double plugin Gaussian (DoPinG) copula estimators to estimate the sparse precision mat...

There is severe threat of permanent impairment in young adults due to the effect life stressors which bring cognitive and emotional downfall leading functional neurological symptom disorder. The aim this research was measure paranormal beliefs along maladaptive schemas patients with disorder through structural equation modelling IBM SPSS (AMOS 26) analysis. Psychodynamic functions hypothesis th...

Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century is a successor to an earlier Handbook of Parapsychology published 38 years ago (Wolman, 1977). The authors of the present Handbook discuss the relevant empirical, methodological, and conceptual developments that have taken place in the field of parapsychology since then. It is a high-level book written primarily for academic scholars and graduate ...

Let T be an algebraically paranormal operator acting on Hilbert space. We prove : (i) Weyl’s theorem holds for f(T ) for every f ∈ H(σ(T )); (ii) a-Browder’s theorem holds for f(S) for every S ≺ T and f ∈ H(σ(S)); (iii) the spectral mapping theorem holds for the Weyl spectrum of T and for the essential approximate point spectrum of T . Mathematics Subject Classification (2000). Primary 47A10, 4...