Psychological measurement of hallucinatory experiences and apparitional experiences

• Autor: Parra, Alejandro
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2008
• Institución: Universidad de Lima
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad de Lima
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistas.ulima.edu.pe:article/927
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.ulima.edu.pe/index.php/Persona/article/view/927
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: hallucinatory experiences; apparitional experiences; experiencia alucinatoria; experiencias aparicionales

An apparition is a visual experience in which there appears to be a person or animal present, often in connection with an agent who is dying or undergoing some other crisis. A number of hypotheses were tested: people seeing apparitions and having other apparition-like experiences (experients) have a higher capacity for absorption, fantasy and dissociation proneness, high neuroticism and schizotypy and score higher on three sensory modalities of hallucinatory experience than non-experients. This study demonstrated the viability of adopting a psychological approach in order to better understand the apparitional experience.