The Journal of Parapsychology A SCIENTIFIC QUARTERLY DEALING WITH EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION, THE PSYCHOKINETIC EFFECT, AND RELATED TOPICS EDITORIAL STAFF JOHN A. PALMER, Editor DOROTHY H. POPE, Assistant Editor SALLY WILLIAMS, Managing Editor DONALD S. BURDICK, Statistical Editor LIBBY FREELAND, Business Manager Volume 61 1997 PARAPSYCHOLOGY PRESS Durham, NC CONTENTS NUMBER 1, MARCH 1997 Geomagnetic Fluctuations and Free-Response Anomalous Cognition: PEDO SE oo. 0Ks ch wccerdinndwsdiconsens S. James P. Spottiswoode Confirming the Factor Structure of the Paranormal Beliefs Scale: Big Orthogonal Seven or Oblique Five? ...... Tony R. Lawrence, Chris A. Roe, and Carl Williams Luckiness, Competition, and Performance on a Psi Task MatthewD . Smith, Richard Wiseman, Dan Machin, Peter Harnis, and Richard Joiner Replies to Dr. Cook’s Review of Parapsychology and Thanatology Robert Almeder, Stephen Braude, Michael Grosso, Justine E. Owens, John Palmer, and Eugene Taylor Book Reviews Our Dreaming Mind by Robert L. Van de Castle ............. Suzanne V. Brown Synchronicity, Science and Soul-Making ; i I IID 0. sd bie dite Siewnnd iwahsecsele s reviewed by Douglas M. Stokes Research in Parapsychology 1992: Abstracts and Papers from the Thirty-fifth Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association edited by Emily Williams Cook .... reviewed by Douglas M. Stokes PUMGII ETIIDEIgO EE TRMOUTOEED 6 gnc cic icc cciévencuceseens . edited by Sally Feather 87 NUMBER 2,J UNE 1997 Perceptions of a Paranormal Subject ................. . . « Joseph W. McMoneagie 97 Reliabilities and Psychological Correlates of Guessing and Scoring Behavior in a Forced-Choice ESP Task. ..... Joop M. Houtkooper and Erlendur Haraldsson 119 Hit-Contingent Response Bias in Helmut Schmidt’s Automated PYGCUGUMIOM HAPCTINNICIUE .... 550. cise ccccecccaress aca . . John Palmer 135 The Ganzfeld Novice: Four Predictors of Initial ESP Performance ...... ie aie oie arn ratabaelna rea asae aor ....+ Charles Honorton 143 Dr. Cook's Reply to Comments on her Review of Parapsychology oe, eee ae nde a aet ed ee re Emily Cook 159 Book Reviews The Nature of Mind: Parapsychology and the Role of Consciousness in the Physical World by Douglas Stokes .................005- Frank B. Dilley Curso de Parapsicologia [Course of Parapsychology] I oc at yn Cale arenas a AE pare neeail Carlos §. Alvarado Dizionario del Paranormaie {Dictionary of the Paranormal] by Massimo Polidoro SE ee Carlos S. Alvarado aerate elln alert akaua aberasaen tik .... edited by Sally Feather 179 NuMBER 3, SEPTEMBER 1997 Covert Observation Increases Skin Conductance in Subjects Unaware of When They are Being Observed: A PIN ce Ss. cinktnn amiadsiaeraemewas MarilynJ . Schlitz and Stephen LaBerge 185 Experimenter Effects and the Remote Detection of Staring pie Risin aire Siren Richard Wiseman and Marilyn Schlitz 197 Autoganzfeld II: An Attempted Replication of the PRL Ganzield Research .........6..0s. Richard S. Broughton and Cheryl H. Alexander 209 A Meta-Analytic Comparison of the Sensitivity of Direct Hits and Sums of Ranks as Outcome Measures for Free-Response Studies ............... Julie Milton rhe Factor Structure of the Paranormal Belief Scale: More Evidence in Support OR Cie CORRIIIS FURY oo onc ce cece .....+ lony R. Lawrence and Pio De Cicco COURTS THMNEI IDs 6c cn ccccecswecees ii eee ewe . Erlendur Haraldsson Book Reviews Handbook of Dissociation: Theoretical, Empirical, and Clinical Perspectives edited by Larry K. Michelson and William J. Ray .......... Carlos §. Alvarado Poltergeists and the Paranormal: Fact Beyond Fiction by Philip Stander and Paul Schmolling................ ... Lisa C. Sheehan 262 265 POPC TINNET D FUE so oo: sors cre staeneaneviews sesion edited by Sally Feather INN i craista cra: orac osh nloreina Wh wisi ervinrelsielerell Naum Kreiman, Matthew Smith 269 Parapsychological Association Call for Papers .............:eeceecceecerceecs 273 NuMBER 4, DECEMBER 1997 Meta-Analysis of Free-Response ESP Studies without Altered States I te Sins siege hopin w-doere ora ealale mie Neulo leah as Julie Milton 279 Reality and Imagination: A Psi-Conducive RET Siivinwicewacnwane<e? ...... Susan J. Blackmore and Nicholas Rose $21 How the Big Orthogonal Seven is really . the Oblique Seven Jerome Tobacyk and Adrian Thomas 337 Book Reviews Shamans, Priests, and Witches: A Cross-Cultural Study of Magico-Religious Practitioners by Michael James Winkelman .......... ... Thomas Robisheaux 343 Advances in Parapsychological Research 8 edited by Stanley Krippner ...........sccscscescces Gertrude R. Schmeidler 346 Philosophical Interactions with Parapsychology: The Major Writings of H. H. Price On Parapsychology And Survival edited by Frank B. Dilley 353 Editorial Consultants 1997 362 oO EE LECT E RT CET er eT eee ree er eT eT eC ee 363 cesar hates atc in Sasa a nha Reo OS Dasara aya Ta aie G'i Onca ls RL ah cae larivtee ere tr ea 369