the best,
Larry
-Original Message-
From: Larry Z. Daily [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 12:00 PM
To: TIPS
Subject: Someone's Watching You - A Perception Question
Hello all,
I got the impression when I asked about SP texts a while back that there
are some
Hello all,
I got the impression when I asked about SP texts a while back that there
are some really knowledgable SP folks on TIPS. So, here's one that stumped
me (though that's not so difficult to do. :-)
A colleague in economics has a daughter who wants to do a science fair
project on whether
Hi
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Larry Z. Daily wrote:
A colleague in economics has a daughter who wants to do a science fair
project on whether person A can perceive whether person B is looking at A
(without, of course, A looking at B). Mom's pretty savvy, so they've got a
nice little study designed,
Larry,
Although some on the list might find the work of Rupert Sheldrake
questionable, and although
he is a biologist, he is probably the only person that I am aware of that
has researched what
he calls the sense of being stared at. Below is one
abstract, with a link after that where you'll
find
Larry:
The experience was investigated in depth by E. B. Titchener!!
The reference is...
Titchener, E. B. (1898). Feeling of being stared at. Science, 8,
895-897.
I am not completely certain for the volume and page numbers as I
had to use Readers Periodical to find the exact reference,
Larry, before you dismiss this phenomenon outright, you might want to examine the
available empirical evidence which, as Jim Clark correctly points out, lies within
the domain of parapsychology. Here are some recent abstracts:
Braud, W., Shafer, D., Andrews, S. (1993). Further studies of
