Entropy and environmental mystery: a parapsychological perspective.
Findings from parapsychological field studies grounded in cognitive illusions parallel the results from Stamps' 2007 research on environmental mystery in simulated environments. However, parapsychology also implicates certain perceptual-personality characteristics in the perception of some forms of environmental mystery. Thus, it is argued that environmental mystery is produced fundamentally by an interaction of the right type of percipient (primed to detect and give credence to ambiguous stimuli) in the right type of environment (full of ambiguous stimuli).
Houran
James
J
Integrated Knowledge Systems, USA. jim_houran@yahoo.com
D019277:Entropy; D006801:Humans; D008029:Lighting; D009903:Optical Illusions; D010268:Parapsychology; D010469:Perceptual Distortion; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D010551:Personality; D012931:Social Environment; D014796:Visual Perception