Do fantasy proneness and personality affect the vividness and certainty of past-life experience reports?

Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 136-149

  Robertson, Sonje ^a   Gow, Kathryn M ^a,b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FANTASY; FEMALE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPNOSIS; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST;

EID: 0033369317     PISSN: 01560417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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