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PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES IN THE MULTI-NATIONAL
HUMAN VALUES STUDY
WHO REPORTS THEM?
Erlendur Haraldsson and Joop M. Houtkooper1
University of Iceland
Abstract. Three items on personal psychic experiences (clairvoyance, telepathy and
contact with the dead) were included in a survey on human values which was conducted on
large representative samples in 13 countries in Europe and in the USA (N=18.607). The
percentage of persons reporting these experiences in Europe were 34% reporting
telepathy, 21% clairvoyance and 25% contact with the dead. Percentages for USA were
considerably higher. Sixty percent of Americans and Italians reported some psychic
experience and only 24 percen ts of Norwegian s. Education hadnoeffect on the reporting of
psych ic experien ces, whereas n ation ality sex, marital status, reporting positive and negative
affects and several other variables did.
3300 Parapsychological Assue Convention
Aug 1990
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