title: Beliefs in parapsychological events or experiences among college students in a course in experimental parapsychology.
abstract: 16 undergraduate students completed Crawford and Christensen's 1995 12-item Extrasensory Perception Survey about attitudes toward extrasensory perception events or experiences before and after taking a 'special topics' course in experimental parapsychology. There were no significant differences in scale values (1-5) (within subjects) between beliefs before versus after the course. Combined (pre- and posttest) mean scale values showed that belief in life after death, belief in the existence of extrasensory perception, and belief in precognitive experiences in dreams ranked highest in endorsement while beliefs in out-of-the-body experiences, auras, or psychokinesis, ranked lowest.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of South Alabama, Mobile 36688, USA. wvitulli@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
authors.forename: W F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Vitulli
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D004325:Dreams / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D010268:Parapsychology / Q000193:education; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*