Where can I find lota of info on parapsychology, such as.....?

Question

Everage income.

What it is.

Requirments.

discriptions.

Lots and lots of details.

If anyone actually researches it, I would love to talk with you.

If not, know anywhere I can get good info on it?

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you're doing research on parapsychology as a potential career you aren't going to find much.  There is a very small sample of actual parapsychologists simply because there isn't a whole lot of work being done in that field.  That doesn't mean you can't do some yourself, but I'd stick to accounting or engineering.

Answer 2

google it..................better yet, ask a ghost!

Answer 3

I would start with the professional association for parapsychologist. That would be the Parapsychological Association (link below).

There is also a new site that is attempting to gap the bridge between the public and the professionals in parapsychology I also suggest that site (link below).

I can tell you to work in the field (and to be a full member of the PA) will require a PhD or other doctorate degree. At the PA web site you can look at the educational backgrounds of the members.

The web site also list their research and has many published papers available.

There are so few jobs that are full time in parapsychology (at one time 40 world wide) that I doubt there is a statistic on average income. Most work full time in their chosen field of science (usually a traditional field like physics, biology, psychology, etc.) and you would have to look at those incomes especially in academia (many of them teach).

I have replicated several parapsychology experiments before but mostly for amateur groups that were just interested in experiencing trying it for themselves.

Please contact me if I can be of further assistance to you.

Psi

Answer 4

Parapsychology (from the Greek: παρά para, "alongside" + psychology) is the study of ostensibly paranormal events including extrasensory perception, psychokinesis, and survival of consciousness after death. Parapsychologists call these processes psi, a term intended to be descriptive without implying a mechanism.[1] Parapsychology is a fringe science because it involves research that does not fit within standard theoretical models accepted by mainstream science.

Parapsychological research involves a variety of methodologies including laboratory research and fieldwork, which is conducted at privately funded laboratories and some universities around the world[2] though there are fewer universities actively sponsoring parapsychological research today than in years past. Such research is published in specialized parapsychological publications, though a smaller number of articles on parapsychological research have also appeared in more mainstream journals. Experiments conducted by parapsychologists have included the use of random number generators to test for evidence of psychokinesis, sensory-deprivation Ganzfeld experiments to test for extrasensory perception, and research trials conducted under contract to the United States government to investigate the possibility of remote viewing.

Scientists such as Ray Hyman, Stanley Krippner, and James Alcock, among others, are critical of both the methodology used and the results obtained in parapsychology. Skeptical researchers suggest that methodological flaws provide the best explanation for apparent experimental successes, rather than the anomalistic explanations offered by many parapsychologists. To date, no evidence has been accepted by the scientific community as establishing the existence of paranormal phenomena. Active parapsychologists have admitted difficulty in getting scientists to accept their research[3], and science educators at the California State Board of Education have called the subject pseudoscience in their academic standards literature.[4]

Contents

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    * 1 History

          o 1.1 Early psychical research

          o 1.2 Rhine era

          o 1.3 Establishment of the Parapsychological Association

          o 1.4 Decade of increased research (1970s)

          o 1.5 Parapsychology today

    * 2 Research

          o 2.1 Scope

          o 2.2 Methodology

          o 2.3 Experimental research

                + 2.3.1 Ganzfeld

                + 2.3.2 Remote viewing

                + 2.3.3 Psychokinesis on random number generators

                + 2.3.4 Direct mental interactions with living systems

          o 2.4 Near death experiences

          o 2.5 Anomalous psychology

    * 3 Criticism

          o 3.1 Fraud

          o 3.2 Criticism of experimental results

          o 3.3 Selection bias and meta-analysis

    * 4 Organizations and publications

    * 5 References

    * 6 Further reading

    * 7 External links

[edit] History

The term parapsychology was coined in or before 1889 by psychologist Max Dessoir. It was adopted by J.B. Rhine in the 1930s as a replacement for the term psychical research, to indicate a significant shift toward laboratory methodologies applied to the study of psychical phenomena.[5]

[edit] Early psychical research

American psychologist and philosopher William James (1842–1910) was an early psychical researcher.

American psychologist and philosopher William James (1842–1910) was an early psychical researcher.

The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) was founded in London in 1882. The formation of the SPR was the first systematic effort to organize scientists and scholars for a critical and sustained investigation of paranormal phenomena. The early membership of the SPR included philosophers, scholars, scientists, educators and politicians, such as Henry Sidgwick, Arthur Balfour, William Crookes, and Charles Richet.[6]

The SPR classified its subjects of study into several areas: telepathy, hypnotism, Reichenbach's phenomena, apparitions, haunts, and the physical aspects of Spiritualism such as table-tilting and the appearance of matter from unknown sources, otherwise known as materialization. One of the first collaborative efforts of the SPR was its Census of Hallucinations, which researched apparitional experiences and hallucinations in the sane. The census was the Society's first attempt at a statistical evaluation of paranormal phenomena, and the resulting publication in 1886, Phantasms of the Living is still widely referenced in parapsychological literature today. The SPR became the model for similar societies in other European countries and the United States during the late 19th century. Largely due to the support of psychologist William James, the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) opened its doors in New York City in 1885.[7]

Today, the SPR and ASPR continue the investigation of psi phenomena. The SPR's purpose is stated in every issue of its Journal—being "to examine without prejudice or prepossession and in a scientific spirit those faculties of man, real or supposed, which appear to be inexplicable on any generally recognized hypothesis."[8]

[edit] Rhine era

In 1911, Stanford University became the first academic institution in the United States to study extrasensory perception (ESP) and psychokinesis (PK) in a laboratory setting. The effort was headed by psychologist John Edgar Coover. In 1930, Duke University became the second major U.S. academic institution to engage in the critical study of ESP and psychokinesis in the laboratory. Under the guidance of psychologist William McDougall, and with the help of others in the department—including psychologists Karl Zener, Joseph B. Rhine, and Louisa E. Rhine—laboratory ESP experiments using volunteer subjects from the undergraduate student body began. As opposed to the approaches of psychical research, which generally sought qualitative evidence for paranormal phenomena, the experiments at Duke University proffered a quantitative, statistical approach using cards and dice. As a consequence of the ESP experiments at Duke, standard laboratory procedures for the testing of ESP developed and came to be adopted by interested researchers throughout the world.[7]

The publication of J.B. Rhine's book, New Frontiers of the Mind (1937) brought the laboratory's findings to the general public. In his book, Rhine popularized the word "parapsychology," which psychologist Max Dessoir had coined over 40 years earlier, to describe the research conducted at Duke. Rhine also founded an autonomous Parapsychology Laboratory within Duke and started the Journal of Parapsychology, which he co-edited with McDougall.

The parapsychology experiments at Duke evoked much criticism from academic psychologists who challenged the concepts and evidence of ESP. Rhine and his colleagues attempted to address these criticisms through new experiments, articles, and books, and summarized the state of the criticism along with their responses in the book Extra-Sensory Perception After Sixty Years.

The administration of Duke grew less sympathetic to parapsychology, and after Rhine's retirement in 1965 parapsychological links with the university were broken. Rhine later established the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man (FRNM) and the Institute for Parapsychology as a successor to the Duke laboratory.[7] In 1995, the centenary of Rhine's birth, the FRNM was renamed the Rhine Research Center. Today, the Rhine Research Center is a parapsychology research unit, stating that it "aims to improve the human condition by creating a scientific understanding of those abilities and sensitivities that appear to transcend the ordinary limits of space and time."[9]

[edit] Establishment of the Parapsychological Association

The Parapsychological Association (PA) was created in Durham, North Carolina, on June 19, 1957. Its formation was proposed by J. B. Rhine at a workshop on parapsychology which was held at the Parapsychology Laboratory of Duke University. Rhine proposed that the group form itself into the nucleus of an international professional society in parapsychology. The aim of the organization, as stated in its Constitution, became "to advance parapsychology as a science, to disseminate knowledge of the field, and to integrate the findings with those of other branches of science".[10]

Under the direction of anthropologist Margaret Mead, the Parapsychological Association took a large step in advancing the field of parapsychology in 1969 when it became affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest general scientific society in the world.[11] In 1979, physicist John A. Wheeler argued that parapsychology is pseudoscientific, and that the affiliation of the PA to the AAAS needed to be reconsidered.[12] His challenge to parapsychology's AAAS affiliation was unsuccessful.[12] Today, the PA consists of about three hundred full, associate, and affiliated members worldwide and maintains its affiliation with the AAAS.[13] The annual AAAS convention provides a forum where parapsychologists can present their research to scientists from other fields and advance parapsychology in the context of the AAAS's lobbying on national science policy.[13]

[edit] Decade of increased research (1970s)

The affiliation of the Parapsychological Association (PA) with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, along with a general openness to psychic and occult phenomena in the 1970s, led to a decade of increased parapsychological research. During this period, other notable organizations were also formed, including the Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine (1970), the Institute of Parascience (1971), the Academy of Religion and Psychical Research, the Institute of Noetic Sciences (1973), the