Scientists would say that Nunn was a victim of the ideomotor effect, when the power of suggestion causes unconscious movement. |
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The ideomotor effect also explains a number of other ostensibly paranormal phenomena. |
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The movement of pointers on Ouija boards, tables during seances, or rods in the hands of dowsers are also examples of ideomotor activity. |
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In this trial, mental activity training was an ideomotor training that the subject practiced mentally without executing the real movement. |
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Confirmation of perfect timesharing when simultaneous tasks are ideomotor compatible. |
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Our ability to fool ourselves is unparalleled, and the ideomotor effect is just one persistent way our own curious psychology can push us towards erroneous conclusions. |
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As an illustration of how the mind can play games, members of his society have learned how to trigger this ideomotor effect in people holding pendulums, he says. |
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For resistant skin disorders, hypnoanalysis using ideomotor signaling and the affect bridge technique can often identify original incidents and promote healing. |
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