Researchers investigating the relationship among reported level of pain, use of psychic healing techniques, and belief in psychic phenomena found correlation between use of psychic healing and reported pain and correlation between severity of pain and degreeof belief in belief in psychic phenomena.

no ; a negative

Explanation:

Correlation: It means alliance, measure of the degree to which two different variables are related to each other.

Negative correlation: The relationship between two different variables in which the decrease in one variable leads to an increase in the other variable. When two different variables have a negative correlation, then they possess an inverse relationship.

Correlational studies are being conducted, where experimenting is not possible.