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psychokinesis
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psychokinesis [¦sī·kō·kə′nē·səs]
(psychology)
The alleged ability of an individual to exert a mental influence on physical events in advance of their occurrence. Abbreviated PK.


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Fontana, a story editor and writer, created such favorites as the aforementioned space hippies, the Vulcan death grip, and "Charlie X," the dangerously psychokinetic teenager, a precursor to the Columbine killers, played with icy longing by Robert Walker Jr.
Yet numerous experiments conducted over the past 35 years, in which people try to influence the output of computers that generate random sequences of 1s and Os, have overall failed to demonstrate the existence of so-called psychokinetic effects, according to a new analysis.
As an actor and a woman, Amy Irving has long outgrown her beginnings as that nice girl who avoided the psychokinetic bloodshed in Carrie and who nabbed an Oscar nomination for marrying a cross-dressing Barbra Streisand in Yentl.
 
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