Trait, state, and psi: A comparison of psi performance between clusters of scorers on schizotypy in a ganzfeld and waking control condition.

摘要: This study compared psi performance in the ganzfeld and a methodologically matched waking ESP condition. It also explored the ideas that (a) individual differences exist in the baseline waking state of consciousness, and (b) there may be individual differences in the state of consciousness for optimal psi performance. In this investigation, it was expected that there would be an interaction between personality trait (schizotypy), state of consciousness (manipulated by experimental condition) and psi performance. The direction of the interaction was not predicted. Twenty-six pairs of participants took part in this investigation. Each pair completed both experimental conditions in a counter-balanced order. All receivers completed the four subscales of the O-LIFE (measuring the schizotypy construct) and a scale measuring temporal lobe lability (Persinger & Makarec, 1987). A sum of ranks analysis failed to find a …