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Testing for forced-choice precognition using a hidden task: two replications

Luke, D. P., Roe, C. A. and Davison, J. (2008) Testing for forced-choice precognition using a hidden task: two replications. Journal of Parapsychology. 72 0022-3387.

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Abstract: This paper describes two extended replications of Luke, Delanoy, and Sherwood’s (2008) precognition effect using a covert task with contingent reward or punishment that found performance to be related to belief in luck. In Study 1, 25 participants completed the short-form Questionnaire of Beliefs About Luck (QBL) and then rated the pleasantness of sets of fractal images, which was a covert precognition task. Participants in the contingent condition subsequently completed a pleasant or unpleasant task based on performance; those in the no-contingent condition did not. Overall, participants selected more target images than MCE, t(24) = 2.60, p = .02, but there was no difference between the contingent and nocontingent conditions, t(23) = .73, p = .47. Performance was positively correlated with the Chance and Providence subscales of the QBL (r = .48, p = .02, and r = .39, p = .05 respectively). In Study 2, 32 participants completed Goldberg’s measure of openness to experience, Holt’s Creative Cognition Inventory and Luke et al.’s long-form QBL before taking the contingent version of the covert precognition task. Participants again selected more target images than MCE, t(31) = 2.01, p = .03. We did not replicate earlier correlations between performance and QBL subscales, nor with creativity measures, but there was a significant positive correlation with openness to experience (r = .46, p = .01).
Uncontrolled Keywords: ESP, implicit, precognition
Creators: Luke, David P, Roe, Chris A and Davison, Jamie
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: Faculties > Faculty of Health & Society > Psychology
Research Centres > Centre for Psychology and Social Sciences
Date: 1 January 2008
Date Type: Publication
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Parapsychology
Volume: 72
Language: English
ISSN: 0022-3387
Status: Published / Disseminated
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/11013

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