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parapsychology
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par·a·psy·chol·o·gy (pr-s-kl-j)
n.
The study of extrasensory perception, such as telepathy, psychokinesis, and clairvoyance.

para·psycho·logi·cal (-sk-lj-kl) adj.

parapsychology
[-sīkol′əjē]
Etymology: Gk, para + psyche, mind, logos, science
a branch of psychology concerned with the study of alleged psychic phenomena, such as clairvoyance, extrasensory perception, and telepathy.

parapsychology [par″ah-si-kol´ŏ-je]
the branch of psychology dealing with psychic effects and experiences that appear to fall outside the scope of physical law, e.g., telepathy and clairvoyance.

parapsychology,
n the scientific study of psychic or psionic (‘psi’) phenomena, including extrasensory perception, precognition, psychokinesis, and telepathy.
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Further, the claims made by many schools in psychology rest on such a loose interpretation of the concept that if the definition of theory were to be cleaned up, many "trivialities to which it is all-too-often attached by current researchers" would be exposed as sheer parascience (p.
To see if similar results could be found outside the laboratory, Parascience visited a supposedly haunted farmhouse in the Knutsford area of Cheshire.
The director of ParaScience International in Pennsylvania points to Birmingham as the hot spot in the Seventies, Wales in the Eighties, and London or Lincolnshire next in line.
 
 
 
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