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One of psychology's most respected journals has agreed to publish a paper presenting what its author describes as strong evidence for extrasensory perception, the ability to sense future events. The decision may delight believers in so-called paranormal events, but it is already mortifying scientists. Advance copies of the paper, to be published this year in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, have circulated widely among psychological researchers in recent weeks and have generated a mixture of amusement and scorn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports that religious groups and conservative members of the United States Congress are condemning the American Psychological Association for publishing a paper which states that not all instances of sex between adults and children cause psychological harm to the children. The paper appearing in the July 1998 `Psychological Bulletin'; Paper recommendation that some behaviors now defined as abuse be reclassified as adult-child sex; Comments from the Christian Coalition.