Intentional Observer Effects on Quantum Randomness: A Bayesian Analysis Reveals Evidence Against Micro-Psychokinesis [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Intentional effects of human observation on the output of quantum-based random number generators (tRNG) have been studied for decades now. This research has been known as micro-psychokinesis (micro-PK) and many studies in the field reported evidence for ...
Markus A Maier +2 more
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Commentary: Intentional Observer Effects on Quantum Randomness: A Bayesian Analysis Reveals Evidence Against Micro-Psychokinesis [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 In the article [Maier2018] the authors report on a mind-matter experiment comprising an impressive 12.571 subjects in a Micro-Psychokinesis (Micro-PK) task.
H Grote
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Anomalous Mind-Matter Influence, Free Will, and the Nature of Causality
Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition, 2023 This paper proposes a framework that supports both free will and anomalous mind-matter interaction (psychokinesis). I begin by considering the argument by the physicist Sean Carroll that the laws of physics as we understand them rule out psychokinesis (
George Williams
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The association between the belief in coronavirus conspiracy theories, miracles, and the susceptibility to conjunction fallacy. [PDF]
Appl Cogn Psychol, 2021 Summary Previous research has shown that people who endorse conspiracy theories are more prone to the conjunction fallacy: the tendency to perceive conjunct events as more probable than constituent events. The present study examined the relationship between specific beliefs (belief in conspiracy theories, religiosity) and the susceptibility to ...
Wabnegger A, Gremsl A, Schienle A.
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Model Selection in Parapsychology: Psychokinesis, Precognition or Chance?
, 1996 This paper discusses three models that have been put forward to fit data from a particular type of experiment attempting to test psychic functioning. The experiments were actually designed to test what has been called “micro-psychokinesis,” in which participants tried to influence the output of a true random number generator.
Jessica Utts
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Resting-State Electroencephalogram (EEG) Coherence Over Frontal Regions in Paranormal Beliefs [PDF]
Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, 2022 Introduction: Paranormal beliefs are defined as the belief in extrasensory perception, precognition, witchcraft, and telekinesis, magical thinking, psychokinesis, superstitions.
Abdolvahed Narmashiri +3 more
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Examining implicit beliefs in a replication attempt of a time-reversed priming task [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]
F1000Research, 2021 Background: Psi research is a controversial area of science that examines telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis (mind over matter). Central to the debate over the existence of psi is of whether independent investigators can replicate ...
Marilyn Schlitz, Arnaud Delorme
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Has Psychokinesis Met Science's Measure?
Physics Today, 1992 Brian D Josephson, Philip W Anderson
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Magic and memory: Using conjuring to explore the effects of suggestion, social influence and paranormal belief on eyewitness testimony for an ostensibly paranormal event [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 This study uses conjuring to investigate the effects of suggestion, social influence and paranormal belief upon the accuracy of eyewitness testimony for an ostensibly paranormal event.
Krissy eWilson +1 more
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