PRELIMINARY GROUP REPORT FOR THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING OF SUBJECTS FROM THE PARAPSYCHOLOGY STUDY AT STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE

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Summary: This document provides a summary of the results from a psychological study conducted at Stanford Research Institute as part of the CIA's Stargate program. The study involved six subjects, three designated as sensitive and three as controls. The subjects displayed above-average intellectual abilities, with some reaching the gifted range. Control subjects tended to have higher average scores than sensitive subjects, but the difference was not significant due to the small sample size. There were no consistent trends in subskill performance, and memory skills were as expected based on intelligence scores. Sensitive subjects may have a tendency towards holistic perception rather than analytical perception. In terms of personality, there were no marked trends in psychopathology indicators. However, there was a similarity in defensive style and interests among subjects in both groups, with all subjects showing high feminine scores on the masculinity-femininity scale.

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 oiininarv  I roue  ltenoor_orthe  PsychoIot!ie_1l    ~_5tlnl_of Subjects
 Fromtile I'arans_c.holo^~Sttl_1 _at ,Stanford Po oarchinstitute
 f?:irina la t.e summer and early frill, six subjects ':Ore referred to me for
 testing; for the naransvcho1oPv  Study  at Stanford f,esearcll institute.
 Three of the  subjects  were designated as sensitive subjects and three
 of the subjects were desir;nated as controls..   It was planned that I
 would do the testin' without knowledree of which subjects were considered
 sensitive and which subjects were considered controls.  Hot-,,ever, in the
 course of my contacts ~.?:ith these subjects, it Proved impossible not to
 :now which  subjects belonged to which group, since I was to interview
 each person in depth.  Since   personal experience with apparently extra-
 sensorv perception is a fairiv dramatic event, subjects could not avoid
 talking about these events and still be honest in an in-depth interview.
 Consequently, a secondary plan was doveloned in which I would do the
 nsvcholoc'ical testing and write individual reports for each subject, and
 D' r. 1'.eenan would read the test blind and see whether he could pick out
 three test records which seemed more similar to each other than the rest,
 taerebv discriminatinl- between sensitive and non-sensitive subjects.
 Dr. Heenan has not vet reviewed the test materials and so, since a pre-
 liminary report is requested, I am giving my clinical impressionsof the
 ?roun, data as nertains to the sensitive and control subjects.
 Intellectual Functioninc.
 All of the subjects in this study disniayed distinctly above-average
 Intellectual abilities.   Most subjects 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, although the difference could not be
 said to be significant, given that there were only three subjects in each
 group.    Two of the subjects from the sensitive group showed highly
 variable subtest scores within their intellicence test battery.  This is,
 some of the subskills would be extremely high and other subskills would
 be extremely low.    The variable patterns shown are consistent with
 anhivalent motivation as regards learning tasks and academic situations.
 I was able to spot no consistent trends as to which subskills tended to
 be high and which subskills tended to be low.   For all six subjects,
 verbal and performance skills tended to be about evenly balanced, and
 memory skills were approximately what would be enlectcd, given the intelli-
 gence scores attained.     The number scores on memory tests as well as the
 nerforTIances of the subjects themselves reflect a slight tendency toward
 better memory for material which is organized logically or which appears
 in a meaningful context than for rote memory material    In the control
 group, this tendency seems less pronounced and in fact one subject showed
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 a clear nrcference for rote ncrn)rv r.iaterial    The subjects themselves
 not fcci  that a;iv o'- t`re intclli gcrice to st r.atcria1  tanned ski11s
 er  ':ropensiti.es  On  their ")art  which  might  tit:`  iin}'c:!  to  their extra-
 sensorv capacities, and since the patterns of strength and weakness
 r-:'thin the test profiles varied so widely,           I an inclined to accept
 their Judgment with one possible exception.               It is nossi.ble that
 sensitive     subjects tend to be holistic perceivers rather than analytic
 :'-:rcci.vcrs; tiiat is, to perceive in Cestait. ratifier than compartnientalized
 ele:::cnts.   Psycholo-.J.ca1 tests iihich are directly relevant to this dif-
 ference in perceptual style appear not to be standardized as yet and
 so. it is difficult to follow this lead.
 Personality Functioninc.
 11:hen looked at from the point of view of psychopathology, the indi-
 cators both in projective and in objective testing do not appear tome
 to show marked trends, either for the six subjects taken together or for
 t,,,--  subjects in each groun.   There does appear to be an interesting
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 ... ilarity in defensive style, particularly when this is taken together
 with a similarity in interests and vocational aptitude-, which can be seen
 i:: a large number of the subjects both in sensitive and control groups.
 To elaborate, all six subiccts tended to have high feminine scores on
 tM niasculini.ty-femini.Tity scale of the M.I.P.I.    That scale does not
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