TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints4846
UR  - http://cogprints.org/4846/
A1  - Jawer, Michael
Y1  - 2006/01//
N2  - Psi researchers often use the term ?sensitivity? when theorizing that certain persons may be more apt to register anomalous influences than others.  Through a review of the literature, it is argued that some individuals are disposed toward a range of innate sensitivities that, in novelty as well as intensity, distinguish them from the general population.  It is hypothesized that such persons will exhibit greater susceptibility to a range of environmental factors including allergies, migraine headache, chronic pain and chronic fatigue.  Furthermore, it is suggested that sensitive individuals will report a higher than average degree of psi perception as well as apparent electromagnetic influence.  Through a 54-item survey designed by the author, the following issues are evaluated: the extent to which persons who describe themselves as ?sensitive? appear to be affected by such factors; whether their immediate family members may be similarly affected; to what extent environmental sensitivity parallels apparitional experience; and how such findings compare or contrast with questions asked of a control group.  Based on both the literature and the survey results, the author argues that sensitivity is a bona fide neurobiological phenomenon.  While no single factor in a person's background is likely to distinguish him/her as ?sensitive,? eight demographic or personality factors are found to be statistically significant.  If further studies were to document similar results, a more tangible basis would be provided for the study of apparitional experience than has been possible to date. 
PB  - Society for Psychical Research
KW  - neurobiology
KW  -  sensitive
KW  -  sensitivity
KW  -  survey
KW  -  environmental
KW  -  anomalous
KW  -  perception
KW  -  migraine
KW  -  allergy
KW  -  synesthesia
KW  -  nightmares
KW  -  sleep
KW  -  disorder
KW  -  chronic
KW  -  pain
KW  -  fatigue
KW  -  fibromyalgia
KW  -  psi
KW  -  apparition
KW  -  apparitional
KW  -  gender
KW  -  women
KW  -  female
KW  -  laterality
KW  -  handedness
KW  -  trauma
KW  -  childhood
KW  -  early
KW  -  depression
KW  -  alcoholism
KW  -  electrical
KW  -  chemical
KW  -  immune
KW  -  fantasy-prone
KW  -  imagination
KW  -  absorption
KW  -  mystical
KW  -  transliminal
KW  -  transliminality
KW  -  electromagnetic
KW  -  personality
KW  -  temperament
KW  -  introversion
KW  -  extroversion
KW  -  ambidextrous
KW  -  first-born 
TI  - Environmental Sensitivity: Inquiry Into a Possible Link with Apparitional Experience
SP  - 25
AV  - public
EP  - 47
ER  -

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