Psychology and the Paranormal: Exploring Anomalous Experience
- ISBN-10
- 1529729726
- ISBN-13
- 9781529729726
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 424
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-06-08
- Publisher
- SAGE
- Author
- David F. Marks
Description
The field of research on the paranormal has changed enormously in the last 20 years. Examining experiences of ESP, psychokinesis, precognition, ganzfeld, dissociative states, out-of-the-body experiences, alien abductions and near-death experiences, David Marks appraises the best available evidence to date on scientific claims of the paranormal. Each chapter also provides a description of the psychological processes that are likely to contribute to these experiences, and to the high prevalence of paranormal beliefs. Importantly, this book does not take a fixed sceptical or ‘disbelieving’ view of the phenomena but, as far as possible, offers a neutral gaze which will equip readers to make up their own minds, as well as providing them with the critical skills to defend their conclusions.
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