Healthy schizotypy: The case of out-of-the-body experiences

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 141-154

  McCreery, Charles ^a,b   Claridge, Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Psychophysical Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discriminant analysis; Factor analysis; Hallucination; Schizophrenia; Schizotypy

Indexed keywords

EID: 1242341657     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(01)00013-7     Document Type: Article

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