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How the human brain constructs experience — and where it goes wrong. Peer-reviewed research on pareidolia, sleep paralysis, false memory, and witness suggestibility: the cognitive building blocks that underlie many anomalous-experience reports.
ExplorePrimary source texts from the founding era of organised psychical research, now in the public domain. The SPR's landmark surveys, case collections, and theoretical frameworks — essential reading for understanding how the field began and how it defined its methods.
ExplorePhysical environmental factors — infrasound, electromagnetic fields, geomagnetic variation — and their measurable effects on human perception and mood. Research exploring whether the places we investigate shape what we think we experience there.
ExploreOpen-access work examining how paranormal and anomalistic research is designed, analysed, and evaluated. Covers publication bias, questionable research practices, replication, and the challenge of drawing reliable conclusions from anomalous-experience data.
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Thomas Rabeyron
Drawing on the psychology replication crisis, Thomas Rabeyron applies a probabilistic analysis to psi research. He argues that even if psi effects are real, the combination of small samples, researcher degrees of freedom, and a low prior probability produces a situation where most positive findings will be false positives.
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