Parapsychology (link to Wikipedia) is a subject with parapsychology before psychology, meaning "parallel to psychology", and also translated as "parapsychology" and "spirituality", which refers to a kind of The metaphysics of the existence and mechanism of these "psychic abilities" and "mental phenomena". The research content includes telepathy, remote observation, mental activation, near-death experiences and other "phenomena" that are not recognized by mainstream science.
Research on the mind has existed since ancient times. After mankind entered the era of science, many scholars hope to use scientific methods to verify its existence, and even hope to use the supernatural ability of the mind in military, intelligence, medical and other fields. In the United States in the 1970s, the study of psychology reached a peak. Organizations large and small such as the "American Society of Psychology" were very active. In some Eastern European countries, various psychotronics studies were also popular.
Psychologists claim that psychology is a new "science", and they have "verified" the existence of some "psychic abilities" through a large number of experiments. However, most scientists believe that those weird "phenomena" are difficult to convince, and the quality of psychology research is poor, including flaws in experimental methods, including many data falsifications, and researchers' cognitive biases, so no definite conclusions can be drawn . For example, the American "psychology master" Rein discovered through experiments that many "psychological phenomena" existed, but they were quickly kicked out: the subjects of the experiment cheated. Re-experimenting after putting an end to cheating, Rhein can no longer get "psychic phenomena". Moreover, psychologists hope that those supernatural "psychological phenomena" are true, so much so that they deliberately ignore many objective facts that indicate that they do not exist.
As a result, the questioned research on psychology is becoming less and less recognized by the mainstream scientific community, and is denounced as pseudoscience by scientists. After the 1980s, psychology began to decline in the United States. It turned out that psychology laboratories in various universities have closed down. The most notable one is Princeton University's "abnormal engineering experiments" dedicated to telepathy and telekinesis. "Institute" was officially closed in 2007 after 28 years of its establishment. The American physicist Robert L. Parker commented that this made the academic world and Princeton University faceless.
In 1988, the National Academy of Sciences issued a conclusive report saying: "After 130 years of research on psychology phenomena, there is no scientific evidence to confirm its existence." In 2008, a study using advanced functional nuclear magnetic resonance (fMRI) ) After testing, there was no "psychic superpower".