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 ContentsPreface      Part One: Parapsychological Perspectives1. Feeling the Future: Studies of Precognitive Emotional ArousalDaryl J. Bem      2. Experimenter Effects in Parapsychology: Three Studies with a Remote Helping TaskCaroline Watt      3. The Role of Altered States of Consciousness in Extrasensory ExperiencesChris 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 ParapsychologyRobin Wooffitt      Part Two: Psychological Perspectives7. Anomalous Experiences During Deep HypnosisEtzel Cardeña      8. Haunting Experiences: An Integrative ApproachCiarán O’Keeffe and Steve Parsons      9. Apparitions of Black DogsSimon J. Sherwood      10. Psychological Aspects of the Alien Contact ExperienceChristopher C. French, Julia Santomauro, Victoria Hamilton, Rachel Fox and Michael Thalbourne      11. Observing the Impossible: Eyewitness Testimony for Darkroom SéancesRichard Wiseman      12. Developing a Dissociational Account of Out-of-Body ExperiencesCraig D. Murray      13. Anomalous Experiences and Boundary Thinness in the Mind and BrainChristine Simmonds-Moore      About the Contributors      Index