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Rosalind Hedley Heywood (1895-1980) was a British psychical researcher.〔("Rosalind Hedley Heywood" ). Gale Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology.〕 ==Biography== Heywood was born in Gibraltar, she attended the University of London. In 1938, Heywood joined the Society for Psychical Research. She is most well known for her book ''The Sixth Sense'' (1959) and her autobiography, ''The Infinite Hive'' (1964).〔 Heywood would later become the Vice-President of the SPR. The psychical researcher Renée Haynes wrote that her books have "illuminated the subject matter of parapsychology for thousands of readers inside the Society and beyond."〔Renée Haynes. (1982). ''The Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1982: A History''. Macdonald. p. 207. ISBN 978-0356078755〕 In her book ''The Sixth Sense'' Heywood endorsed the cross-correspondences, ESP experiments, mediumship and psychic phenomena.〔Humphrey Higgens. (1959). ''The Sixth Sense by Rosalind Heywood; The Mind Readers by S. G. Soal; H. T. Bowden''. ''Journal of the Royal Society of Arts''. Vol. 107, No. 5040. pp. 868-870.〕 In a review E. F. O'Doherty wrote the clairvoyant cases that Heywood supported such as the psychic Stefan Ossowiecki were not scientific and chance guessing may explain some of the data that she believed was evidence for ESP.〔E. F. O'Doherty. (1959). ''The Sixth Sense by Rosalind Heywood''. ''An Irish Quarterly Review''. Vol. 48, No. 192. pp. 493-495.〕 C. E. M. Hansel wrote the book is superficial, uncritical and the experiments are no longer taken seriously by the majority of parapsychologists. Heywood described the case of Ossowiecki who had guessed the contents of a sealed envelope in 1933, Hansel wrote that the conditions of the experiment were reminiscent of a simple conjuring trick.〔C. E. M. Hansel. (1963). ''Beyond the Reach of Sense: An Inquiry into Extra-Sensory Perception by Rosalind Heywood''. ''American Journal of Psychology''. Vol. 76, No. 1. pp. 170-171.〕 Ralph W. Gerard gave the book a positive review but stated the results from the experiments may be explainable by alternative factors such as misinterpretation or unintended cues without recourse to the paranormal.〔Ralph W. Gerard. (1962). ''Out, Damned Spot! Beyond the Reach of Sense by Rosalind Heywood. Challenge of Psychical Research by Gardner Murphy''. ''The American Scholar''. Vol. 31, No. 1 pp. 152-154.〕 In the ''New Scientist'' John Cohen wrote although Heywood was "entirely convinced" from the results of card-guessing experiments "Heywood fails to detect the vulnerability of these studies... she has failed to see the shortcomings of the experimental procedure itself." Cohen wrote the objection to Heywood's psychical claims is that no adequate evidence had been presented.〔John Cohen. (1959). (''The Inharmonious Choir of Psi'' ). ''New Scientist''. 11 June. p. 1307.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rosalind Heywood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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