Essays about: "parapsychology"
Found 3 essays containing the word parapsychology.
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1. The effect of remote emotion on receiver skin conductance:a failure to confirm
University essay from Psykologiska institutionenAbstract : This study is an attempt to conceptually replicate a study by Ramakers, Stevens and Morris (2005) using a measure of electrodermal activity skin conductance (EDA) to evaluate the possibility of telepathy occurring between biologically and/or emotionally related senders and receivers. Ten negatively valenced and highly arousing target pictures were mixed with 10 blank control pictures in 10 blocks, with one of each kind in each block. READ MORE
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2. The translation of hedging, adjectives and non-finite ing-participles in Horses Talking by Margrit Coates
University essay from Institutionen för humanioraAbstract : The purpose of this study was to translate a number of selected pages from the book Horses Talking by Margrit Coates into Swedish. An analysis of the source text and the translation was carried out with the focus on three aspects: hedging, adjectives and non-finite ing-participles. READ MORE
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3. Precognitive Habituation : An attempt to replicate previous results
University essay from Psykologiska institutionenAbstract : This study was an attempt to replicate the positive results of a precognitive habituation (PH) experiment devised by Bem (2003). The procedure is based on the subliminal mere exposure (SME) design. In an SME procedure subjects are exposed to image-pairs in a preference task, after being exposed to one of those images (the target) subliminally. READ MORE
