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External psi influence
on ESP task performance. |
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sexta, 10 setembro 2004 |
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Palmer, John (1996).
External psi influence on ESP task performance. Journal of
Parapsychology, 60(3), (pp. 193-210) Abstract Examined whether an exceptional male psi
subject could remotely influence the performance of a female influencee on
the "ESPerciser" computer game. The ESPerciser combines principles of
forced-choice and free-response ESP and allows for testing in both
clairvoyance and precognition modes. The experiment consisted of 8 sessions,
each of which contained 10-trial runs. The S\'s task was to make the
influencee score higher on targets with a white background than on those with
a colored background, or vice versa. The influencee was misinformed that the
S would try to make the score high on some runs and low on others. For half
the sessions, the S actively tried to exert influence while observing the
game over a video monitor; for the other half the S merely hoped for the
correct outcome while engaging in other activities. The influence effect
occurred only in the latter condition. Several alternatives for the psi
source of this effect are discussed. The fact that the effect w!as
suggestively stronger on precognition runs reinforces the designation of this
particular S as the principal source. The results are interpreted as
providing support for the experimenter psi hypothesis.
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