Donovan J M
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Percept Mot Skills. 1998 Aug;87(1):131-46. doi: 10.2466/pms.1998.87.1.131.
Telepathy is often dismissed because it is judged to be contrary to the accepted facts of social psychology. This article argues that what is called telepathy may require nothing more than empathy and charisma and is reducible to these sociopsychological constructs. Two studies explore this hypothesis. In the first the proposed relationship is used to explain the sheep-goat effect. In the second study scores on charisma and empathy are used as direct predictors of telepathy scores. The results in combination support the interpretation of telepathy as phenomenologically impressive social psychological events which in less dramatic instances are termed empathy and charisma.
心灵感应常常遭到摒弃，因为它被认为有悖于社会心理学公认的事实。本文认为，所谓的心灵感应可能只不过是共情和魅力，可归结为这些社会心理结构。两项研究探讨了这一假设。在第一项研究中，所提出的关系被用来解释绵羊-山羊效应。在第二项研究中，魅力和共情得分被用作心灵感应得分的直接预测指标。综合起来的结果支持将心灵感应解释为在现象学上令人印象深刻的社会心理事件，在不那么引人注目的情况下，这些事件被称为共情和魅力。
