| Titel: | Possible sex-related differences in ESP scoring of same and opposite sex pairs in competition/cooperation experiments |
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| Autor: | Rao, KR und Kanthamani, H |
| Mediengruppe: | journal article |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | Journal of Indian Psychology |
| Jahr: | 1981 |
| Band: | 3 |
| Heft: | 2 |
| Seiten: | 41 - 51 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Abstract: | Presents a paper delivered at the 24th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association held at the University of Syracuse in August 1981. In previous research by the authors (see record 1982-02313-001) and by the authors and S. R. Krishna (see PA, Vols 64:11363 and 66:17), it was observed that the volitional effect occurred when pairs of Ss attempted to compete but not when they tried to cooperate with one another to obtain high ESP scores. It was further observed that when Ss in the competing pair sometimes guessed the same and sometimes different target sequences, the volitional effect tended to occur in 1 condition and not the other. However, the use of only 1 pair of Ss in each series of experiments and one of the author's participation as a member of the pair in all but 1 series seriously limited the generalizability of these results. To extend the generalizability of these findings, the same procedures used in the previous 3 studies were replicated with 60 (20 pairs) high school and college students (neither researcher served as an S). Neither of the previous observations were supported by analysis of the data. A post hoc analysis revealed significant sex differences: Ss' ESP scores tended to diverge more in mixed-sex pairs. Males tended to psi-miss significantly more than when working with females. (11 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2002 APA, all rights reserved) |