Back إدراك خارج الحواس Arabic Perceición extrasensorial AST Ekstrasensor qavrayış Azerbaijani অতীন্দ্রিয় উপলব্ধি Bengali/Bangla Percepció extrasensorial Catalan Mimosmyslové vnímání Czech Ekstrasensorisk perception Danish Außersinnliche Wahrnehmung German Εξωαισθητηριακή αντίληψη Greek Extrasensory perception English
Extra-sensory perception (ESP) is being able to know things without using the recognized physical senses.
The study of extra-sensory perception is part of parapsychology. Almost all scientists think of it as pseudoscience.[1][2]
- ↑ Cordón, Luis A. (2005). Popular psychology: an encyclopedia. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. p. 182. ISBN 0-313-32457-3.
The essential problem is that a large portion of the scientific community, including most research psychologists, regards parapsychology as a pseudoscience, due largely to its failure to move beyond null results in the way science usually does. Ordinarily, when experimental evidence fails repeatedly to support a hypothesis, that hypothesis is abandoned. Within parapsychology, however, more than a century of experimentation has failed even to conclusively demonstrate the mere existence of paranormal phenomenon, yet parapsychologists continue to pursue that elusive goal.
- ↑ National Science Board (2006). "Chapter 7: Science and Technology: Public Attitudes and Understanding". Science and Engineering Indicators 2006. National Science Foundation. Belief in Pseudoscience (see Footnote 29). Archived from the original on 30 December 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2013.