Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787ROO07000~0021A.~-~ -or tlie P.,;%, liolot,ical of )-tibiects S, P~~-,~Iarch Tnstitute Pl riw~ late stimmer and x '; ul)*iCcts ':erc referred to me for the T)arapsvc~ni t Stzinforl Research institute. testin't,, fo r 011,y stud V I -.-CC of the .91.11)iCCts 1,'CrC dcsip 'nltc(l as sensitive subJects and three 0-7 the subJects were (Icsifinitcd as controls.. It wns planned that I do the tcstinf~ ;,,ithout ~-nowlcdlfzc of t.:hich subJects t~cre considered scnsitive and i---hich subjects were considered controls. ]lot-.,ever, in the course of my contacts ~-.-ith those subjects, it rroved impossible not to ."low w. groL hich subjects bclonqcd to which iT p, since I i~.,as to interview each Tierson in depth. Since nersonal cxT)oricncc with aonarent1v extra- sensory percention is a fairiy dramatic event, subjects could not avoid tallzing about these events and still be honest in an in-depth interview. CoriscqUently, a secondary plan i..,as devoloned in i-.,hich I would do the nsycholoi,ical testing and write individual reports for each subject, and Dr. Heenan i%,ould read the test Mind and see whether lie C(5Ll1d -pick out t.nrec test records whici seemod nore similar to each other than the rest, therobv discrininatin~~ bet~,.,een sensitive and non-sensitive subjects. Dr. Heenan liis riot Yet -reviewed the test materials and so, since a T)rc- liminarv report is req 'L~Csted, I am giving m,,r clinical iirmression_~of the r7rout, data as nertains to the. sensitive and control subjects. Intellectual Functionin,~. All of the -subjects in this study disnlayed distinctly above-average 4ntellectual abilities. Most sub 'jects reached the superior range, and several of the subjects reached the gifted range. As it happened, the control subjects tended to show higher average intellectual functioning scores than did sensitive subjects, althou.-h the difference could not be said to be significant, given that there were only three subjects in each lroUr). Two of the subjects from the sensitive -roun shoi%,ed highly ,arial % , 5 1 esubtest scores within their intelligence test battery. This is, so,-c of the subsUlls would be extremely hiph and other subskills would '11le variable T)attcr be extremely low. ns shol.,~n are consistent with a~Mvalent motivation as regards loarninc, ' tasks and academic situations. I was able to Spot 710 consistent trends as to %-,,hich SUbskills tended to be hir~ll and which SUbS!,illS t0nd0d to be low. For all six subjects, vorhal and -r)erformance s,~ills tended to be about evenly balanced, and me.mory skills were 1T)proximately what would be expected, given the intclli- qenco scores attained. The number scores on nei,,iory tests as well as the T)erforilanccs Of the sill)-jocts themsclves reflect a sli,~lht tendency toward better memory for matcrial i-,,hich is or~anizcd lo,Qically or which appears in a noanillfTful Context than for rote I-.10mory Inaterial .In the control ':7rolln, this tendcnc%, see;,Is less pronounced and in fact one Subject showed -I- Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787ROO0700090021-5 Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787ROO0700090021-5 11 car nrcference for rotc, memor.y naterial The slibjCct.,; themselves not fcc-1 t!lnt ")11", o." --~Ic I - i -Cnc~, te. st tcri Z) I t-11)1)Cd sl-,i 115 Cr --'ropcilsitics On their -)art whic'i might linl-c-,! to ti~icir cxtrn- sensory camacities, and since the patterns of strength and weakness tlic test orociles varic~l so ~,,idciv, I an inciinccl to accept t-eir Judgment with one T)osqil)lc exception. it is Possible that 1A sc:~Sj tive sub i octs toll dto be holiStiC PCiceivers ratlicr nan analytic ,It. rat,1kc-r than com") -rcc i~ ve rs ; 6,11, is , to perccive in. GCsta artmer) tali zed 0 1 Q::~C 11 t s. Psycholo..J.cal tests vihic'h. are directly relevant to this dif- ~crcnce in nercci)tunl style appear not to be standardized as yet and so. it is difficill-, to follow this lead. Personality Functionin7,. L, 1-1 1,-, -- 11;hen looked at from the point of view of psychopatholo~-y, the indi- cators both in pro "Jective and in objective testing do not appear to*me to show marked trends, either for the six subjects taken together or for t s L11).J r-, c t s 1. T-, oa Ch g r0 t in There does appear to be an interesting -Alaritly in defensive style, Partictilarl i,.,hen this is taken to(Yether with a similaritv in interests and vocational aptitude-, which can be seen i.-. a lar-e nwflhcr of t'he sublects both in sensitive and control grouns. T lo elaborate, all six subiccts tonded. to have high feminine scores on t'--1 i,,iasculini.-Ly-fe,~ii.iii.T-,ity scale of the That scale does not Me.ZSUrC Sexual orientation but rather,qex role stereotype. For example, nerson who is hi2hL-v active in expressinp his agp-ression, who is self assertive and who adonts ''masculinc" interests in, say, sT)orts, mechanics, rl-z. , is likely to qct a hiph masctiline score; a porson who tends to be passive in ex-n-rossin- a-1grossion, even manipulative, who tends to .1 'ce interested in +the arts., in music, in aesthetic sensitivities, is likely to pain a high femi J Both the nien and tile I...0men in this group nine score o --~ sullojocts tended to have hilh 110minine scores. Tho trend is seen again in the vocational antitu(Io surve'Y, the Stron.- Vocational Interest Blank, all of the subiects tended to achieve high scores in music, art a7,~! writing, but particularly in %-.rritin~ was thi:s- consisten t. Tile score or. writing aptitude appearred to be above average for the general popula- tion in each subject and for several of the subJects it was one of tile h,;--hest scores obta-incd. Thcsc two trends in the objective personality test data can be compared with another trend found in the projective test data, namely on the Rorschach. Herc, the responses of the -subjects ton-1cd to emnhasize animal or human movement and to de-emphasize color. T,'--;s nattern is connon in people w1ho tend to be introspec tivc, to have ,a rich inner fantasv life, and in fact to r)rcfcr that kind of cx-nressiori 0- tl)cir cmotions to interpcrsonal exnrossion. The cavacity to stand bac!-. froT,,i one's fcclin.-s, observe thom, analyze them, even savor them, is common among artists and particularly among writers. Unforti-nintcly, ti-.,o of the subjects from the sensitive group were 1111f,"lly C"Crelisive about test-tallin~, and their defensiveness was most P-10.-IOUncCd in the projective pci-sonality tests. The result was that -2- Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787ROO0700090021-5 ILLEGIB -RDP9ro-00787ROO070009002i -5 Approved For Release 2000108/07 CIA rave V(,.r% millimli Vcl-V Fcl-,, rcsw)n~,c5, I I (M c 0 , t I i ct t c r n t, n wi I i c 11 1 r C f C r c "in t:ilkjn;~ nhollt ti)('1*7' ;iti%re subjects rl()-ro cle"11,1%, in tll(~ U()ntl-Ol , subjocts j'n tile Fell' or all q'i~( subi,~,cts. Currently I am C'.'On tholwh it "o f item-bv -item 'IT, "5is of tile subiect s "Inswers to tile masculinity- .~,;-~ininitv scaic, of tile to see I.,,' Incthor the liiilh scores obtained I s SS ("r n s, or both and 're the 1)ro('Llct of interest ratterns, agero i On tt ' c it. n, in o' der to acni eve i:-,cther t'le subiocts ton,le,1-to c~ieci., vle s,111 e r -.-.-ir hifih scores Or not Closer content and "171'11~'Sis Of -'ic Porschach recorls mav also 1)(-; instructive in this regard. L Tn tile course oF thr-, testin(~, tile control subiects began to tell me that as tile%, partiCir)atc,,(J in t',,(, ,;.P,.i. studY, tilcy ,ne'ared to be devclopinc! ror,~! ,in(l more sensitivitv on the experiments performed and each was not ccrtaili that he should be T)roncrlv classilviccl as a control subject. in tall:ina' with Dr. Puthoff, I le_JrrIe'd that they did w)ncar to be' showing so-le sensitivit-v but tivit their nerformances' A,.,ere not reliable and so., t"C',' Still Could be said to be im,)ortantly differf-nt from the sensitive su'D.i ects . if the scnsitivc subjects could be induced to be less defensive in test-takina, it i .1 s possible that their records would show a pattern waich could he distJnguis.,,,c(i from thnt of the control SU1)i0r-tS. Since is not the case, we ire left wit'i a ctilerlma. A tcn('1e-'Lcv tol"'ard interests, a ric'I fantasy life and an introversive 'style of emorlional expression may I)c acci~iental in ill of these six subjects. I t ma 'N, be characteristiC" of nersons who are willing to Tlarticipate in paransvcholop a C ical studies. It may be char~cteristi of versons who have so~~c extrasensor *v canacitv, whether great or small, or it r-iiav relate t6 some other variable i-.,hich happens to 1)6 common to these six subjects, At icast four of *tli.e suii 'jects in this study describe to me an interest in scientoloo 'v and ti..o of then indicate th"'t tiicv have been involved in tile Churcli o Scientolo,rv for some time. This commonality may account '~70r -,-he similarity dcscribe~l above. Slioulld tile nattcrn of emotion,-il style Ind aesthetic interest prove relevant to extrasensory capncitv, it would seem that the Rorschach ~Tets at the r"~ost fun--',amontal level of this quality. The objective tests are more likely to 47 be 7~casuriwj the end products ol that fundamental level of emotional ex- PrCSSiOn. Sillce MY readin!~ of pro 'Jective test material is likely to be colercd by Piv acquaintance with tfie sub 'iects and i,.,hat they said about them- selves. I will be interested to see whethcr Dr. Heenan can discern the same nnttern, and for mv 01-1,F) Curiosity I would like to be able to test the sensitive subjects again, without them having -read this report, to see whether I Can Put thOll More Jt ease Oil a second contact and got more T),ro- ductive records from them. Two of these sub 'jects said fran'll,ly that they Were alienated at tile t!lOLl.-'At Of T)S~'C]10101~iCal testing because their exncricnce was that people with extrasonsorY c"macity 1,;erc i,.,rittcn off as nuts ind thit psycholo.gists nyi(l nsvchl'ltrists alv,,ays examined them with an eye to'.;ard ally patholooy they could (liscover. 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