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A survey exploring synesthetic experiences: Exceptional experiences, schizotypy, and psychological well-being. » We used an online survey to investigate the relations among synesthesia, schizotypy, exceptional experiences (ExEs), and well-being. Participants (N = 1,628 [listwise N = 767]; male = 619, female = 1,064) completed a Synesthesia Experience Questionnaire (SEQ), a general question about synesthetic experiences (Hartmann, 1991), the Anomalous Experience Subscale (AES) of the Anomalous Experience Inventory (Gallagher, Kumar, & Pekala, 1994), questions about parapsychological experiences, a multidimensional measure of schizotypy (Oxford-Liverpool Inventory for Feelings and Experiences Short [O-LIFE Short]; Mason, Linney, & Claridge, 2005), and the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS; Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985). Cronbach’s alphas for these measures ranged from .63 to .90 in our data set. Approximately half (54.4%) of the sample reported 1 or more synesthetic experiences, although the rate was much lower for synesthesias experienced on a consistent basis (3.1%). The SEQ was highly internally reliable Psycnet.apa.org

ESP: Inside the government's secret program of psychic spies » While scientists question whether extrasensory perception exists, for decades the Defense Department took an offensive interest in studying psychic phenomena Cbsnews.com

Daryl Bem on Parapsychology » In this issue of PsycCRITIQUES Spotlight, social psychologist Daryl Bem reviews Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century. Apa.org

Reflections on Pseudoscience and Parapsychology: From Here to There and (Slightly) Back Again » Abstract. This chapter presents a personal account of the author’s journey from being a believer in the paranormal to being a skeptic and his subsequent transfo Academic.oup.com

Searching for the impossible: Parapsychology’s elusive quest. » Recently, American Psychologist published a review of the evidence for parapsychology that supported the general claims of psi (the umbrella term often used for anomalous or paranormal phenomena). We present an opposing perspective and a broad-based critique of the entire parapsychology enterprise. Our position is straightforward. Claims made by parapsychologists cannot be true. The effects reported can have no ontological status; the data have no existential value. We examine a variety of reasons for this conclusion based on well-understood scientific principles. In the classic English adynaton, “pigs cannot fly.” Hence, data that suggest that they can are necessarily flawed and result from weak methodology or improper data analyses or are Type I errors. So it must be with psi effects. What we find particularly intriguing is that, despite the existential impossibility of psi phenomena and the nearly 150 years of efforts during which there has been, literally, no progress, there are still scientists who c Psycnet.apa.org