OBJECTIVE The present study examined the relation between déjà vu experiences and paranormal beliefs in schizophrenic patients. METHODS A total of 522 participants (54.5% female; mean age=33.3, SD=16.02) were recruited, including 422 healthy adults (60.9% female; mean age=29.48, SD=15.07) and 100 medicated adult schizophrenic patients (27.3% female; mean age=48.98, SD=8.57). The Chinese versi...

We present the validation study of the Paranormal Health Beliefs Scale adult version, aimed to measure illusory beliefs about health. The scale was administered to 643 participants (54.3% females), having an average age of 29.7 years (standard deviation = 18.31). The results of the analyses confirmed the dimensions of the Paranormal Health Beliefs Scale as developed in the previous adolescent s...

Previous research has shown that people reporting contact with aliens, known as "experiencers", appear to have a different psychological profile compared to control participants. They show higher levels of dissociativity, absorption, paranormal belief and experience, and possibly fantasy proneness. They also appear to show greater susceptibility to false memories as assessed using the Deese/Roe...

This study investigated the degree to which cognitive bias mediated relationship between thinking style and belief in paranormal. A sample of 496 participants completed Revised Paranormal Belief Scale (RPBS), Science (BISS), Cognitive Biases Questionnaire for Psychosis, reality testing subscale Inventory Personality Organization (IPO-RT). The BISS IPO-RT served as proxy indices preferred style;...

Let B(H) be the set of all bounded endomorphisms (operators) on the complex Hubert space H. T € B(H) is paranormal if \\(T — z/) || = l/d(z, cr(T)) for all z £ cr(T) where d(z, cr(T)) is the distance from z to cr(T), the spectrum of T. If J is the set of all paranormal operators on H, then J contains the normal operators, JÍ, and the hyponormal operators; and J is contained in JL, the set of al...

A quasi-polynomial is a function defined of the form q(k) = c d (k) k d + c d−1 (k) k d−1 + · · · + c0(k), where c0, c1,. .. , c d are periodic functions in k ∈ Z. Prominent examples of quasi-polynomials appear in Ehrhart's theory as integer-point counting functions for rational polytopes, and McMullen gives upper bounds for the periods of the cj (k) for Ehrhart quasi-polynomials. For generic p...

A quasi-polynomial is a function defined of the form q(k) = c d (k) k d + c d−1 (k) k d−1 + · · · + c0(k), where c0, c1,. .. , c d are periodic functions in k ∈ Z. Prominent examples of quasi-polynomials appear in Ehrhart's theory as integer-point counting functions for rational polytopes, and McMullen gives upper bounds for the periods of the cj (k) for Ehrhart quasi-polynomials. For generic p...