Project Sherlock

Paper

2011

Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect

Daryl J. Bem

Reports nine experiments finding that ordinary participants' current behaviour was statistically influenced by random events that had not yet happened, using entirely standard psychological methods - a result now widely read not as evidence for precognition but as proof that those standard methods could manufacture significant findings for almost anything.

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