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 -