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# Parapsychology

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Parapsychology is the study of certain so-far unexplained phenomena, for the most part phenomena about the mind or about spirit?s, using scientific methods. Typical subjects in parapsychology include [extra-sensory perception]?, [near-death experience]?s, and telekinesis. Since these reported phenomena cannot be linked to generally-accepted physics, both skeptics and believers tend to claim that their existence would require some radical revision of existing theories. A parapsychological explanation therefore must exclude explanation by conventional means (e.g., coincidence?, or auto-suggestion? or fraud).

Parapsychology is sometimes considered a sub-branch of psychology. There is a well-known professorship and program at the [University of Edinburgh]? in parapsychology and a handful of other programs around the world, including at [Duke University]? and [University of Utrecht]?.

Parapsychology is not taken seriously by many mainstream psychologists and other scientists, who say that, despite a great deal of laboratory work, no carefully controlled and conducted experiments have ever given any evidence that of the [anomalous phenomena]? they investigate are actually real.

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