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Anticipatory Set and Setting: Stress Incongruities as Elicitors of Mystical Experience in Solitary Nature Situations

R. Hood

September 1, 1978 DOI: 10.2307/1386322 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Survey
Population College students
Topics Mystical experience
Key findings Argues that anticipatory set and setting incongruities, particularly stress incongruities in solitary nature situations, can elicit mystical experiences. The study's results indicate that such incongruities are associated with reports of mystical experience, supporting the importance of set and setting in understanding these phenomena.

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Ralph W. Hood, Jr., Anticipatory Set and Setting: Stress Incongruities as Elicitors of Mystical Experience in Solitary Nature Situations, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Sep., 1978), pp. 279-287

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