Feeling The Future: Is ESP real (according to science)?

Today let's talk about that time psychologist Daryl Bem published a paper that showed psi phenomena like precognition are real. The 2011 dive into parapsychology and the aftermath.

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Further Reading:
Bem, D. J. (2011). Feeling the future: experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect. Journal of personality and social psychology, 100(3), 407. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0021524

Alcock, J. (2011). Back from the future: Parapsychology and the Bem affair. Skeptical Inquirer, 35(2), 31-39. https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusi...

Wagenmakers, E.-J., Wetzels, R., Borsboom, D., & van der Maas, H. L. J. (2011). Why psychologists must change the way they analyze their data: The case of psi: Comment on Bem (2011). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100(3), 426–432. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0022790

Kekecs, Z., Palfi, B., Szaszi, B., Szecsi, P., Zrubka, M., Kovacs, M., ... & Aczel, B. (2023). Raising the value of research studies in psychological science by increasing the credibility of research reports: the transparent Psi project. Royal Society Open Science, 10(2), 191375. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191375

French, C. (2012). Precognition Studies and the Curse of the Failed Replications. Guardian newspaper, 15 March. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2...


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