Anomalous Experiences

Matthew D. Smith is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Buckinghamshire New University in England. He has conducted research on paranormal experiences for more than 15 years and was the resident psychologist/parapsychologist for the television show Most Haunted.

Table of Contents



Preface     



Part One: Parapsychological Perspectives

1. Feeling the Future: Studies of Precognitive Emotional Arousal

Daryl J. Bem     

2. Experimenter Effects in Parapsychology: Three Studies with a Remote Helping Task

Caroline Watt     

3. The Role of Altered States of Consciousness in Extrasensory Experiences

Chris A. Roe     

4. Are Our Assumptions More Anomalous Than the Phenomena?

Paul Stevens     

5. Will We Ever Know Whether Extrasensory Perception Exists?

Jezz Fox     

6. Towards a Sociological Parapsychology

Robin Wooffitt     



Part Two: Psychological Perspectives

7. Anomalous Experiences During Deep Hypnosis

Etzel Cardeña     

8. Haunting Experiences: An Integrative Approach

Ciarán O’Keeffe and Steve Parsons     

9. Apparitions of Black Dogs

Simon J. Sherwood     

10. Psychological Aspects of the Alien Contact Experience

Christopher C. French, Julia Santomauro, Victoria Hamilton, Rachel Fox and Michael Thalbourne     

11. Observing the Impossible: Eyewitness Testimony for Darkroom Séances

Richard Wiseman     

12. Developing a Dissociational Account of Out-of-Body Experiences

Craig D. Murray     

13. Anomalous Experiences and Boundary Thinness in the Mind and Brain

Christine Simmonds-Moore     



About the Contributors     

Index