Entropy and Environmental Mystery: A Parapsychological Perspective
- 1 October 2007
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 105 (2)
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.105.2.688-690
Abstract
Findings from parapsychological field studies grounded in cognitive illusions parallel the results from Stamps' 2007 research on environmental mystery in simulated environments. However, parapsychology also implicates certain perceptual-personality characteristics in the perception of some forms of environmental mystery. Thus, it is argued that environmental mystery is produced fundamentally by an interaction of the right type of percipient (primed to detect and give credence to ambiguous stimuli) in the right type of environment (full of ambiguous stimuli).This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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