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Unit number:     PAR 222   

Unit title:          Science and Unusual Experiences

Credit value:     3 credits 

Description:       Parapsychology has been defined as “the science of unusual experiences”. This unit comprises a selection of readings that take a strictly scientific look at a range of anomalous phenomena. A scientific approach to the paranormal is explained, and there are sections on probability and the placebo effect.  Students will read a paper on psychic fraud. Scientific studies of astrology are considered. The following range of unusual experiences is examined with reference to scientific studies:  unconscious awareness, dreams, alien abductions, meditation, paranormal cognition, and near-death experiences.  Finally there are comments on the social function of paranormal experience.

Key textbook:   Roberts, Ron and Groome, David.  Parapsychology: the Science of Unusual Experience.  London: Arnold, 2001.

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