PERFORMANCE IN GROUP TELEPATHY EXPERIMENTS AS A FUNCTION OF TARGET PICTURE CHARACTERISTICS.
Data on telepathic group communication of emotions, as evoked by slide pictures, were analysed with a view to identifying critical picture characteristics. Performance was related to 6 psychological picture scales as well as to 2 scales measuring the pictures' tendency to evoke electrodermal (EDA) a...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Parapsychology Vol. 77; no. 1; pp. 79 - 106 |
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Rhine Research Center
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