Seeing and feeling ghosts: Absorption, fantasy proneness, and healthy schizotypy as predictors of crisis apparition experiences

Journal of Parapsychology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 357-372

  Parra, Alejandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD ABIERTA INTERAMERICANA   (Argentina)

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