Contextual mediation of perceptions in hauntings and poltergeist-like experiences

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 755-762

  Lange, Rense ^a,b   Houran, James ^a   Harte, Timothy M ^a   Havens, Ronald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; INDIVIDUALITY; MOTIVATION; PARAPSYCHOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AROUSAL; BEREAVEMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; INDIVIDUALITY; MOTIVATION; PARAPSYCHOLOGY; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 0030160587     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1996.82.3.755     Document Type: Article

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