What is the difference between psychology and parapsychology?
Psychology is based on the scientific study of natural phenomena related to thought and behavior, such as memory, emotion, intelligence, personality, motivation, social interaction, and so forth. Parapsychology is the study of phenomena, such as telepathy and telekinesis, which are not explainable by established natural law. Most psychologists do not believe that telepathy, telekinesis, and other parapsychological phenomena are real.
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