Parapsychology studies alleged psychic phenomena, including extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance and telekinesis, along with paranormal claims connected to near-death experiences and synchronicity. Mainstream scientists widely regard the field as a pseudoscience, criticizing continued investigation despite more than a century without reproducible evidence, and research in the field rarely appears in mainstream scientific journals, with niche publications dominating instead.
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Central QuestionParapsychology asks whether alleged psychic phenomena such as extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition and clairvoyance, along with paranormal claims such as near-death experience and apparitional experience, are genuine and can be demonstrated by scientific method. 1 Key DebateMainstream science rejects parapsychology as a pseudoscience, criticizing the field for continuing more than a century of investigation without producing reproducible evidence for any psychic phenomenon, so its research appears almost entirely in a small number of niche journals rather than in the mainstream scientific literature. 1 Parapsychology
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Anomalistic psychology studies the same paranormal and anomalous claims parapsychology investigates, but from a skeptical psychological explanatory standpoint.
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1. Parapsychology
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Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, teleportation, precognition, clairvoyance, telekinesis, and psychometry) and other paranormal claims
Lead section, scientific criticism summary
Parapsychology has been criticized for continuing investigation despite being unable to provide reproducible evidence for the existence of any psychic phenomena after more than a century of research.
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Electronic voice phenomenon - Wikipedia
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Wikipedia article 'Electronic voice phenomenon' is filed under Category:Parapsychology.
Ideomotor phenomenon, Wikipedia
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Wikipedia article 'Ideomotor phenomenon' is filed under Category:Parapsychology.
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Automatic writing (Wikipedia)
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