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Psychokinesis (from Greek ψυχή "mind" + κίνησις "movement"), or telekinesis〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=psychokinesis (psychology) - Encyclopedia Britannica )〕 (from τῆλε "far off" + κίνησις "movement"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=telekinesis: definition of telekinesis in Oxford dictionary (British & World English) )〕), is an alleged psychic ability allowing a person to influence a physical system without physical interaction. Psychokinesis and telekinesis are sometimes abbreviated as PK and TK respectively.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Glossary of Psi (Parapsychological) Terms (L-R) )〕 Examples of psychokinesis include moving an object and levitation. There is no conclusive evidence that psychokinesis is a real phenomenon.〔Bunge, Mario (1983). ''Treatise on Basic Philosophy: Volume 6: Epistemology & Methodology II: Understanding the World''. Springer. p. 226. "Despite being several thousand years old, and having attracted a large number of researchers over the past hundred years, we owe no single firm finding to parapsychology: no hard data on telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, or psychokinesis."〕 Psychokinesis experiments have historically been criticized for lack of proper controls and repeatability.〔 Furthermore, some experiments have created illusions of psychokinesis where none exists, and these illusions depend, to an extent, on the subject's prior belief in psychokinesis.〔 ==Etymology== The word 'psychokinesis' was coined in 1914 by American author Henry Holt in his book ''On the Cosmic Relations''. The term is a linguistic blend or portmanteau of the Greek language words ψυχή ("psyche") – meaning ''mind'', ''soul'', ''spirit'', or ''breath'' – and κίνησις ("kinesis") – meaning ''motion'', ''movement''.〔〔 The American parapsychologist J. B. Rhine used the word 'psychokinesis' in 1934 in connection with experiments that were conducted to determine whether a person could influence the outcome of falling dice.〔 The word 'telekinesis', a portmanteau of the Greek τῆλε ("tēle") – meaning ''distance'' – and κίνησις ("kinesis") – meaning ''motion''〔 – was first used in 1890 by Russian psychical researcher Alexander N. Aksakof. 'Psychokinesis' in parapsychology, fictional universes and New Age beliefs refers to the mental influence of physical systems and objects〔〔 while 'telekinesis' refers to the movement and/or levitation of physical objects by purely mental force.〔 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「Psychokinesis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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