Research Methods

This subcategory of ESP & Psychokinesis is an extension of the Experimental Parapsychology subcategory. It contains articles that relate to methodological issues in psi testing in the laboratory.

Dealing with the Stacking Effect

When several test participants respond to the same target, their trials are statistically dependent.

Free-Response Methods

Targets such as random images or locations allow for richer impressions than do forced-choice tests.

JB Rhine and the Replication Crisis in Research

Rhine anticipated reforms linked to psychology’s replication crisis.

Presentiment Research Methods

Confirmatory studies should be preregistered and use pre-stimulus physiological data to predict random stimuli.

Preventing Researcher Fraud

Preventive research practices offer the strongest protections against fraud in parapsychology.

Richet’s ‘La Suggestion Mentale’

In a 1884 paper, physiologist Charles Richet pioneered the use of statistics in telepathy tests.

Unusual Ways of Testing for Psi

Psi has been tested in more ways than card guessing, dice throwing, remote viewing and ganzfeld.