Fantasy role-playing games as an ESP test strategy
| dc.contributor.author | Auerbach, Loyd M. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-06-10T16:15:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-06-10T16:15:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1981 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study involved the use of games to increase spontaneity of a subject's response, thereby increasing incidence of psi-hitting. Indications from past research have been that games motivate the subjects more, thus increasing spontaneity. Use of a game created for a specific group of subjects should therefore increase scores even more. The game used was modeled after Dungeons & Dragons, the most popular of fantasy roleplaying games. These games are both motivating and provide for a spontaneous atmosphere of play, and game players are quite familiar with psi concepts. It was predicted that in a standard ESP test, game players would show significant psi-hitting in the game condition, and psi-missing in the test condition. Forty subjects participated in the study. Game-players and control subjects were assigned to either game or test. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was used as an exploratory measure of personality differences. A 2 X 2 factorial ANOVA was conducted to test the effect of the manipulations, though no significant results were attained. Single-mean t-tests were conducted to test the predictions. Single-mean t-tests on the overall data revealed significant psi-missing by all subjects in the overall mean for all subjects in both conditions (t = -2.333, df = 38) and in the test condition (t = -2.310, df = 18). The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator showed that the introversion-extroversion and thinking-feeling preferences were split between subjects, while a majority of subjects had an intuitive over sensing attitude and a majority had a perceptive over judging attitude. Results were discussed as well as suggestions presented as to how to upgrade the game for later studies. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11803/3607 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher.institution | John F. Kennedy University (JFKU) | |
| dc.subject | Fantasy games - experiments | |
| dc.subject | Extrasensory perception | |
| dc.title | Fantasy role-playing games as an ESP test strategy | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Consciousness Studies | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | John F. Kennedy University (JFKU) | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Science |