![]() ![]() ![]() The high prevalence of ESP beliefs, even among well-educated individuals ( Rice, 2003 Wuthnow, 1978), calls for a better understanding of their psychological determinants. Enright, 1995) these phenomena are thus considered pseudoscientific or, as other authors prefer to term this “…not empirically attested to the satisfaction of the scientific establishment.” ( Irwin, 2009, p. Since they failed to stand numerous scientific tests (e.g. The most recent attempts to demonstrate the reality of ESP were made by Daryl Bem ( Bem, 2011), but several labs promptly attempted and failed to replicate his findings ( Galak, LeBoeuf, Nelson, & Simmons, 2012 Ritchie, Wiseman, & French, 2012). The common denominator for all the phenomena in question is that they break the fundamental scientific principles known to date ( Broad, 1953). phenomena as telepathy (communicating with thoughts), psychokinesis (the ability to move objects without physical contact), precognition (the ability to predict future events), psychometry (reading the past from an object) or dowsing (the ability to locate underground water, buried metals and gravesites using dowsing rod). ESP or “psi” refers to extra-sensory perception, i.e. However, recent studies reveal that around two-thirds of Americans believe in psi phenomena ( Rice, 2003). ![]() From 1964 to 2015, when the competition was terminated, not a single person of over thousand applicants succeeded in proving their supernatural ability. The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge was an offer of 1 million US dollars to anyone who can demonstrate a paranormal ability under scientific testing conditions i. ![]()
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