ESP

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ESP (extrasensory perception) is the purported ability to gain information through means beyond the known physical senses, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, or precognition.

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instanceOf paranormal phenomenon
parapsychological concept
abbreviationOf extrasensory perception
associatedWith clairvoyance
precognition
psychokinesis
remote viewing
telepathy
considered pseudoscientific by mainstream science
consideredBy pseudoscience community
contradicts current scientific understanding of perception
criticizedFor lack of replicability in experiments
methodological flaws in supporting studies
describedAs purported ability to gain information beyond the known physical senses
distinguishedFrom normal sensory perception
documentedBy J. B. Rhine
evaluatedBy meta-analyses in parapsychology
featuredIn paranormal literature
paranormal television shows
fieldOfStudy parapsychology
fullName extrasensory perception
involves information transfer without known sensory channels
non-local information acquisition
lacks reliable empirical evidence
oftenClassifiedAs supernatural ability
oftenReportedIn anecdotal accounts
spontaneous experiences
popularIn New Age beliefs
occult literature
science fiction
rejectedBy most psychologists as real phenomenon
relatedConcept psi
sixth sense
requires mechanism beyond known physical senses
requiresForValidation robust, repeatable experimental evidence
researchedAt Duke University
surface form: Duke University (historically)
sometimesDividedInto clairvoyance
precognition
psychometry
retrocognition
telepathy
subjectOf parapsychological research
skeptical investigation
testedBy Ganzfeld experiments
Zener card tests
card-guessing experiments
viewedBy skeptics as result of bias and chance

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