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Those interested in social psychology or personality will also find the book useful, perhaps not so much for the particular topics covered as for an introduction to the fascinating question of why anomalistic phenomena and magical explanations are so ubiquitous in human societies.
—Contemporary Psychology
As before, the great strength of Anomalistic Psychology is its range of coverage both of types of anomalous phenomena and of psychological concepts that might account for them....The book is generally excellent as a sourcebook of references...plenty of fascinating and informative material.
—The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research
The book is recommended for both libraries...and...Upper-division undergraduates and up.
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Updating and expanding the materials from the first edition, Anomalistic Psychology, Second Edition integrates and systematically treats phenomena of human consciousness and behaviors that appear to violate the laws of nature. The authors present and detail a new explanatory concept they developed that provides a naturalistic interpretation for these phenomena -- Magical Thinking. For undergraduate and graduate students and professionals in cognitive psychology, research methods, thinking, and parapsychology.
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Our ancestors of not so many centuries ago regarded any psychological anomaly with awe, attributing its origins to supernatural agencies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
energic events, dermal vision, anomalistic phenomena, anomalistic psychology, mutual dreaming, hypnopompic imagery, basic limiting principles, water witchers, protective inhibition, incubus nightmare, informational events, paranormal beliefs, hypnagogic imagery, survival hypothesis, hypnotic age regression, telepathy experiments, informational processes, lunar effect, primal societies, magical interpretation, parapsychological research, psi phenomena, poltergeist phenomena, voodoo death, psychical research Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Christian Science, New York, Alice Bailey, William James, Clever Hans, Theosophical Society, Duke University, Marie Antoinette, New Thought, Patience Worth, The Secret Doctrine, Mary Baker Eddy, Oral Roberts, Therese Neumann, Carl Gustav Jung, Kate Fox, Rochas D'Aiglun, Roman Catholic, Spencer Tracy, Virgin Mary, World War, Annie Besant, Charles Tart, Gallup Youth Survey New!
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Our ancestors of not so many centuries ago regarded any psychological anomaly with awe, attributing its origins to supernatural agencies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
energic events, dermal vision, anomalistic phenomena, anomalistic psychology, mutual dreaming, hypnopompic imagery, basic limiting principles, water witchers, protective inhibition, incubus nightmare, informational events, paranormal beliefs, hypnagogic imagery, survival hypothesis, hypnotic age regression, telepathy experiments, informational processes, lunar effect, primal societies, magical interpretation, parapsychological research, psi phenomena, poltergeist phenomena, voodoo death, psychical research Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Christian Science, New York, Alice Bailey, William James, Clever Hans, Theosophical Society, Duke University, Marie Antoinette, New Thought, Patience Worth, The Secret Doctrine, Mary Baker Eddy, Oral Roberts, Therese Neumann, Carl Gustav Jung, Kate Fox, Rochas D'Aiglun, Roman Catholic, Spencer Tracy, Virgin Mary, World War, Annie Besant, Charles Tart, Gallup Youth Survey New!
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- The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky on page 7, page 102, and page 199
- Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. von Osten) (1907; English 1911) (Thoemmes Press - Classics in Psychology) (Vol 40) by Oskar Pfungst on page 84, page 85, and Back Matter
- Social Psychology by Ronald J. Fisher in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Animal Intelligence by George John Romanes on page 165
- Dictionary of Philosophy by Peter Adam Angeles in Back Matter
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- The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science by Taner Edis on page 176, page 207, and page 240
- Parapsychology: Research on Exceptional Experiences by Jane Henry on page 41, and page 89
- Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World (Aar Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series) by Randall Styers in Back Matter
- Investigating Religious Terrorism and Ritualistic Crimes by Dawn Perlmutter on page 347
- Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis: A Comparative and Critical Introduction by Dr Robin Wooffitt in Back Matter
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