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Research Questions and Citations

 Research Questions and Citations:


Many children can vividly remember and provide descriptions of what they preserve as their “past life.” How much accuracy of one’s past life truly parallels with these cases? Do these cases pose any benefits for children? Are children just highly imaginative? Do psychological factors play a role in their experiences, or could this influence be by surrounding beliefs? Could there be any overlap or patterns between these cases or children? 




Works Cited


Haraldsson, Erlendur. “Children Who Speak of Past-Life Experiences: Is There a Psychological 

Explanation?” Psychology & Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice, vol. 76, no. 1, 

Mar. 2003, p. 55. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1348/14760830260569256.


Haraldsson, Erlendur. “Persistence of Past-Life Memories: Study of Adults Who Claimed in 

Their Childhood to Remember a Past Life.” Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 22, no. 

3, Fall 2008, pp. 385–394. EBSCOhost, 

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Kean, Leslie. Surviving Death: a Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife. Three Rivers 

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Keil, H. H. Jürgen, and Jim B. Tucker. “An Unusual Birthmark Case Thought to Be Linked to a 

Person Who Had Previously Died.” Psychological Reports, vol. 87, no. 3_suppl, SAGE 

Publications, 2000, pp. 1067–74, doi:10.2466/pr0.2000.87.3f.1067.


Pasricha, Satwant K. “Do Attitudes of Families Concerned Influence Features of Children Who 

Claim to Remember Previous Lives?” Indian Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 53, no. 1, Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd, 2011, pp. 21–24, doi:10.4103/0019-5545.75554.


Shroder, Tom. Old Souls : the Scientific Evidence for Past Lives. Simon & Schuster, 1999.


Stevenson, Ian. “Ropelike Birthmarks on Children Who Claim to Remember Past Lives.” 

Psychological Reports, vol. 89, no. 1, Aug. 2001, p. 142. EBSCOhost, 

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Tucker, Jim B., and F. Don Nidiffer. “Psychological Evaluation of American Children Who Report 

Memories of Previous Lives.” Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 28, no. 4, SSE, 2014, 

pp. 585–96.


Tucker, Jim B. “Reports of Past-Life Memories.” Mind Beyond Brain, Columbia University Press, 

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Tucker, Jim B. Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives. St. 

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Tucker, Jim B. “The Case of James Leininger: An American Case of the Reincarnation Type.” 

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