parapsychologist
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Soderbergh doesn’t believe in ghosts, an unlikely perspective from the son of a parapsychologist, his mother Mary Ann.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025
The series' resident parapsychologist, she is an empathetic companion to people recounting their terrifying experiences.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2023
She even sees a parapsychologist, who delivers her otherworldly observations with an appealing combination of warmth and tart, no-nonsense straightforwardness.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2021
Yet Caroline Watt, a parapsychologist at the University of Edinburgh, says studies have found a “small” but “statistically significant” precognitive effect in humans.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2019
Dyson even offered an explanation for what the parapsychologist Joseph Rhine called the "decline effect," which I discussed in a previous post.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 7, 2011
Now the parapsychologists are trying to rid New York of stress-related pink slime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2019
In the early 1980s, organizers of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science placed Wheeler on the same program as three parapsychologists.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 9, 2018
As far as he and other parapsychologists are concerned, these replications have so far been equivocal.
From Slate ● May 17, 2017
I did wonder if the film did a disservice to parapsychologists by implying that they are all totally incompetent, like the bumbling Professor Shackleton, played by Toby Jones.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2012
The parapsychologists, as they call themselves, receive financial support from highly respectable sources.
From Time Magazine Archive
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