Research

An ordered, well-considered approach to quantifying and codifying trans-etheric phenomena is essential to transform the study of these phenomena from a frontier science to a mainstream science. This will not occur without the development of a culture amongst interested people that makes collaboration, strict adherence to practices of "good science" and the application of due diligence in research the norm. The AA-EVP is dedicated to supporting the community effort to establish such a culture, and has taken the following initiatives:

Sarah Estep Research Fund (SERF)

Established to fund targeted research that will further the understanding of these phenomena. Both responses to request for research proposals and unsolicited research proposals will be considered. Applicants need not be AA-EVP members. Grant application procedures have been added.

Etheric Studies Initiative

The study of trans-etheric phenomena is generally described by the Survival Hypothesis. This is a much broader subject than EVP or even ITC. The primary tool for this initiative is the Journal-Etheric Studies Best Practices (Journal-ESBP)

Journal-ESBP

This part of the Etheric Studies Initiative. The wiki is the same shell used in Wikipedia, and offers a powerful tool for group collaboration and presentation of consensus views of "state of the art" for this field. It will be used as a means of soliciting public comment on research reports. It is not necessary to be an AA-EVP member to participate.

Research undertaken by the AA-EVP

Research Grant

The Windbridge Institute for Applied Research in Human Potential has been awarded a grant to conduct the study:

Real-time EVP Conversations: A Pilot Study

A final report is scheduled to be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal 4Q09. Windbridge is scheduled to provide a review of the research at the 2009 AA-EVP conference

Research Volunteers Needed As part of the research study that is being funded by the The Sarah Estep Research Fund, the Windbridge Institute is looking for research volunteers. To learn how you can sign up to part of the study, please visit the following webpage for more information: http://www.windbridge.org/study.html When asked for your Participant Code please enter "AAEVP".

4Cell EVP Demonstration

4 person groups following a double-blind protocol to use EVP to acquire information. Over 60% hit rate.

Online Listening tests

Fully blind tests for website visitors to report what they hear in examples of EVP. On average, 25.2% of words were correctly identified by visitors with 510 participants.

It is important to recognize that there are a few researchers in the world who have actually received research grants, and who share the goals and objectives of the AA-EVP. Amongst these are Alexander MacRae, Anabela Cardoso and David Fontana and the members of IL Laboratorio. We with the AA-EVP are proud to be able to join the ranks of those who are willing and able to support further research.

What to Expect in this Section

This section will include reports and articles from many sources, not just AA-EVP members. The objective here is to further collaboration amongst researchers, and to encourage others to embark on original research, thus avoiding repeating work already done.

Researcher Articles

• Draft final report for the online listening experiments (Please consider providing your remarks, suggestions and constructive criticism on the "Talk" page.)

• Grants

• Why Has There Not Been More Study of the Paranormal?

• EVP and Geomagnetic Fields: Is There a Correlation? by Dave Schumacher, Cindy Heinen and Chris Carter

• 4Cell EVP Demonstration

• Computer–Based Analysis of Supposed Paranormal Voice, Daniele Gullà

• Italian Research in ITC, Paolo Presi

• A Testable Hypothesis Explaining EVP Formation in Digital Recorders

• Physiognomic Analysis Performed on an Image Obtained through ITC by Daniele Gullà

• A Report about Experimental Results by Alexander MacRae