Research in Parapsychology 1991

This volume contains abbreviated versions of 26 original papers presented at the convention, on such topics as apparitions, poltergeists, mediumship, experimental PK studies, personality and ESP, defensiveness and ESP, ESP training techniques, displacement in ESP experiments, the relationship between belief in psi and observation, marijuana and psi, and some statistical, methodological, and theoretical issues. In addition, the volume contains abbreviated versions of 4 symposium papers on the history of parapsychology in northern Europe, of 5 contributions to a panel discussion on the legacy of Louisa E. Rhine, and of 7 poster papers, as well as the full text of an invited address by Suitbert Ertel, entitled 'Testing Sheldrake's Claim of Morphogenetic Fields,' and the Presidential Address by Stephen E. Braude, entitled 'Psi and the Nature of Abilities.'