Believing in paranormal phenomena: Relations to asymmetry of body and brain

Cortex

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1326-1335

  Schulter, Günter ^a   Papousek, Ilona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Belief in paranormal phenomena; Developmental instability; Fluctuating asymmetry; Hemispheric asymmetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FACE ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FINGER; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAPSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BELIEF;

EID: 55349091377     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2007.08.022     Document Type: Article

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