Abstract

Previous reports by the writer and others have presented evidence that the subject\'s intention can influence moving objects as shown by their placement when they come to rest In the present experiment, the throwing surface was converted into a scale for registering lateral dispersion by parallel lines at 1 cm. intervals. In releases involving 630 cubes the subject consciously intended for the objects to veer toward the righthand side of the scale; in the same number of interspersed releases, the aim was to have them veer in the opposite direction. A t-test of the difference between the means of the two distributions gave significant results (t = 5.71). The same data evaluated by the old method of scoring only hits and misses were not statistically significant.