# Studies
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Here is a collection of links to external studies that contain tulpas or tulpa-like entities

## Scientific studies of tulpas

- [THE ILLUSION OF INDEPENDENT AGENCY: DO ADULT FICTION WRITERS EXPERIENCE THEIR CHARACTERS AS HAVING MINDS OF THEIR OWN? MARJORIE TAYLOR, SARA D. HODGES, and ADELE KOHANYI. University of Oregon, Eugene 2003](http://pages.uoregon.edu/hodgeslab/files/Download/Taylor%20Hodges%20Kohanyi_2003.pdf)

- [Taylor, Marjorie; Mannering, Anne M.: Of Hobbles and Harvey : The Imaginary Companions Created by Children and Adults." *Play and Development: Evolutionary, Sociocultural and Functional Perspectives*, Pg 227-249, 2007](http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~siegler/423-taylor07.pdf)

- [Samuel Veissière, 2014: Talking to Tulpas: Sentient Imaginary Friends, the Social Mind, and implications for Culture and Cognition Research](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3XiHPL0XsoZc3RPWUxxa0ZNRVU):

- [Samuel Vessiere, Apr. 3rd 2015: Varieties of Tulpa Experiences: Sentient Imaginary Friends, Embodied Joint Attention, and Hypnotic Sociality in a Wired World](http://somatosphere.net/2015/04/varieties-of-tulpa-experiences-sentient-imaginary-friends-embodied-joint-attention-and-hypnotic-sociality-in-a-wired-world.html)

- [Mikles, Natasha L.; Laycock, Joseph P.: Tracking the Tulpa : Exploring the “Tibetan” Origins of a Contemporary Paranormal Idea. *Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions*, Vol. 19, No. 1, Pg 87-97, August 2015](http://web.archive.org/web/20170315081818/http://orig04.deviantart.net/4cb5/f/2017/074/5/4/tracking_the_tulpa_by_nobillis-db2d2iw.pdf)

- [Joffe, Ben: "Paranormalizing the Popular through the Tibetan Tulpa: Or what the next Dalai Lama, the X Files and Affect Theory (might) have in common" in *Savage Minds : Notes and Queries in Anthropology* (U.S.A., Feb' 13, 2016).](http://savageminds.org/2016/02/13/paranormalizing-the-popular-through-the-tibetan-tulpa-or-what-the-next-dalai-lama-the-x-files-and-affect-theory-might-have-in-common/)

- [Neuroholographic Organisms: An Independent Study of Sentient Thoughtforms, by Graeme C. Nash, 2016](https://www.academia.edu/19614555/Neuroholographic_Organisms_An_Independent_Study_of_Sentient_Thoughtforms)

- [Tulpas and Mental Health:  A Study of Non-Traumagenic Plural Experiences, by J. Isler, 2017](http://pubs.sciepub.com/rpbs/5/2/1/)