A Skeptical Eye on Psi

Extrasensory Perception: Support, Skepticism, and Science, Volume I: History, Controversy, and Research, Volume II: Theories of Psi

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages V1-153-V1-176

  Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^a   Wetzels, Ruud ^a   Borsboom, Denny ^a   Kievit, Rogier Andrew ^b   van der Maas, Han L J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

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