PRELIMINARY GROUP REPORT FOR THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING OF SUBJECTS FROM THE PARAPSYCHOLOGY STUDY AT STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE

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oiininarv I roue ltenoor_orthe PsychoIot!ie_1l ~_5tlnl_of Subjects
Fromtile I'arans_c.holo^~Sttl_1 _at ,Stanford Po oarchinstitute
f?:irina la t.e summer and early frill, six subjects ':Ore referred to me for
testing; for the naransvcho1oPv Study at Stanford f,esearcll institute.
Three of the subjects were designated as sensitive subjects and three
of the subjects were desir;nated as controls.. It was planned that I
would do the testin' without knowledree of which subjects were considered
sensitive and which subjects were considered controls. Hot-,,ever, in the
course of my contacts ~.?:ith these subjects, it Proved impossible not to
:now which subjects belonged to which group, since I was to interview
each person in depth. Since personal experience with apparently extra-
sensorv perception is a fairiv dramatic event, subjects could not avoid
talking about these events and still be honest in an in-depth interview.
Consequently, a secondary plan was doveloned in which I would do the
nsvcholoc'ical testing and write individual reports for each subject, and
D' r. 1'.eenan would read the test blind and see whether he could pick out
three test records which seemed more similar to each other than the rest,
taerebv discriminatinl- between sensitive and non-sensitive subjects.
Dr. Heenan has not vet reviewed the test materials and so, since a pre-
liminary report is requested, I am giving my clinical impressionsof the
?roun, data as nertains to the sensitive and control subjects.
Intellectual Functioninc.
All of the subjects in this study disniayed distinctly above-average
Intellectual abilities. Most subjects reached the superior range, and~
several of the subjects reached the gifted range. As it happened, the
control subjects tended to show higher average intellectual functioning
scores than did sensitive subjects, although the difference could not be
said to be significant, given that there were only three subjects in each
group. Two of the subjects from the sensitive group showed highly
variable subtest scores within their intellicence test battery. This is,
some of the subskills would be extremely high and other subskills would
be extremely low. The variable patterns shown are consistent with
anhivalent motivation as regards learning tasks and academic situations.
I was able to spot no consistent trends as to which subskills tended to
be high and which subskills tended to be low. For all six subjects,
verbal and performance skills tended to be about evenly balanced, and
memory skills were approximately what would be enlectcd, given the intelli-
gence scores attained. The number scores on memory tests as well as the
nerforTIances of the subjects themselves reflect a slight tendency toward
better memory for material which is organized logically or which appears
in a meaningful context than for rote memory material In the control
group, this tendency seems less pronounced and in fact one subject showed
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a clear nrcference for rote ncrn)rv r.iaterial The subjects themselves
not fcci that a;iv o'- t`re intclli gcrice to st r.atcria1 tanned ski11s
er ':ropensiti.es On their ")art which might tit:` iin}'c:! to their extra-
sensorv capacities, and since the patterns of strength and weakness
r-:'thin the test profiles varied so widely, I an inclined to accept
their Judgment with one possible exception. It is nossi.ble that
sensitive subjects tend to be holistic perceivers rather than analytic
:'-:rcci.vcrs; tiiat is, to perceive in Cestait. ratifier than compartnientalized
ele:::cnts. Psycholo-.J.ca1 tests iihich are directly relevant to this dif-
ference in perceptual style appear not to be standardized as yet and
so. it is difficult to follow this lead.
Personality Functioninc.
11:hen looked at from the point of view of psychopathology, the indi-
cators both in projective and in objective testing do not appear tome
to show marked trends, either for the six subjects taken together or for
t,,,-- subjects in each groun. There does appear to be an interesting
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... ilarity in defensive style, particularly when this is taken together
with a similarity in interests and vocational aptitude-, which can be seen
i:: a large number of the subjects both in sensitive and control groups.
To elaborate, all six subiccts tended to have high feminine scores on
tM niasculini.ty-femini.Tity scale of the M.I.P.I. That scale does not
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