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Magic and memory: using conjuring to explore the effects of suggestion, social influence, and paranormal belief on eyewitness testimony for an ostensibly paranormal event
This study uses conjuring to investigate the effects of suggestion, social influence, and paranormal belief upon the accuracy of eyewitness testimony for an ostensibly paranormal event. Participants watched a video of an alleged psychic seemingly bending a metal key by the power of psychokinesis. Half the participants heard the fake psychic suggest that the key continued to bend after it had been put down on a table and half did not. Additionally, participants were exposed to either a negative social influence (a stooge co-witness reporting that the key did not continue to bend), no social influence, or a positive social influence (a stooge co-witness reporting that the key did continue to bend). Participants who were exposed to the verbal suggestion were significantly more likely to report that the key continued to bend. Additionally, more participants reported that the key continued to bend in the positive social influence condition compared to the other two social influence conditions. Finally, believers in the paranormal were more likely to report that the key continued to bend than non-believers
Introduction to Library Trends 18 (4) 1970: Issues and Problem in Designing a National Program of Library Automation
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Information Storage and Retrieval—Theory, Systems, and Devices (Book Review)
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The Catalog-A Finding List?
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Letter from Henry J. Dubester, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., to Edward T. Douglass, Jr., Industrial Furnace Construction Company, Birmingham, Alabama, April 30, 1959
Attached with this letter is a letter from Edward Douglass, Jr., to Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., April 22, 1959