SPR 2010 Conference Programme
FRIDAY 10th September
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14:20– 14:30
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Welcoming Remarks
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14:30 – 15:00
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Ben L.H. Roberts & Ian R. Hume
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Sender-receiver relationships, sex pairing and ESP task success
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15:00 – 15:30
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Chris A. Roe, Callum Cooper & Hannah Martin
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Testing for precognition using remote viewing and ganzfeld methods
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15:30 – 16:00
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David Luke et al.
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The witching hour on the graveyard shift: A preliminary study into psi and circadian rhythms
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16:00 – 16:30
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TEA/COFFEE
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16:30 – 17:00
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Rachel Browning
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A study of EVP phenomena reported in séances with the Furzey Hill physical circle
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17:00 – 17:30
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Ann R. Winsper
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The effect of paranormal belief and positive schizotypy on response bias in an auditory EVP task
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18:30
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PRESIDENT’S DRINKS RECEPTION
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19:15
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DINNER
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SATURDAY 11th September
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09:00 – 09:30
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Hannah Gilbert
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Spirituality and spirit contact: Accounts of experience and identity in a Midlands spiritualist church
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09:30 – 10:00
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Elizabeth C. Roxburgh
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Understanding spiritualist mental mediumship using interpretative phenomenological analysis
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10:00 – 10:30
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Tamlyn Ryan
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Cyber psychics: Psychic readings and mediumship on the internet
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10:30 – 11:00
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TEA/COFFEE
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11:00 – 11:30
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Hannah Martin, Sophie Louise Drennan & Chris A. Roe
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Exploring a lability interaction between individual and situational variables on PK-RNG performance using the I Ching
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11:30 – 12:00
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Glenn A. Hitchman, Chris A. Roe & Simon J. Sherwood
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A replication of studies concerning PMIR, psi, beliefs about luck, paranormal beliefs, openness to experience and creativity
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12:00 – 12:30
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Adrian Ryan & Eugene Subbotsky
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Negative correlation of remote viewing performance
with 0.025-0.100 Hz geomagnetic pulsations
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12:30 – 14:00
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LUNCH
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14:00 – 14:30
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Simon J. Sherwood
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Apparitions of black dogs
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14:30 – 15:00
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Steven T. Parsons
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Orbs: definitive evidence that they are not paranormal
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15:00 – 15:30
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A TRIBUTE TO TONY CORNELL
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15:30 – 16:00
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TEA/COFFEE
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16:00 – 16:30
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Michael Potts
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Background assumptions and evidence for survival:
A critique of Steven Braude
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16:30 – 17:00
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David Rousseau
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Why is general psychic ability so weak and unreliable? Insights from a systems theoretical analysis of NDEs
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17:00 – 17:30
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Richard S. Broughton
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Using evolutionary perspectives on anomalous cognition
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19:00
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DINNER
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After-dinner talk
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SUNDAY 12th September
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09:00 – 09:30
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Neil Dagnall, Andrew Parker, Gary Munley & Ken Drinkwater
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The effect of paranormal belief and cognitive perceptual factors on mnemonic performance: An experimental investigation
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09:30 – 10:00
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Paul Rogers, Pam Qualter & Helen Sumner
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Paranormal belief and its relationship to three self-report measures of adult attachment style
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10:00 – 10:30
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Christopher C. French et al.
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Exploring the relationship between inattentional blindness paranormal belief/experience, absorption and working memory capacity
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10:30 – 11:00
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TEA/COFFEE
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11:00 – 11:30
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Chris A. Roe & Lesley-Ann Smith
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Exploring people’s experiences of telephone telepathy:
A qualitative study
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11:30 – 12:00
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Göran Brusewitz, Adrian Parker & Lynn Cherkas
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Exceptional experiences amongst twins: A preliminary investigation
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12:00 – 12:30
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Shane McCorristine
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William Fletcher Barrett and psychical research in Ireland
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12:30 – 13:00
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Closing Remarks
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13:00
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LUNCH
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