Experimental Parapsychology
Claims of ESP and PK have long been examined through controlled tests designed to distinguish chance results from genuine anomalies. This subcategory of ESP & Psychokinesis covers classic and modern testing paradigms, experimental refinements, study participants and notable findings in the effort to assess whether psi capacities can be demonstrated scientifically and what their correlates are.
Malcolm Bessent
English-born Malcolm Bessent participated as a subject in successful dream precognition experiments carried out in the US.
Coover Telepathy Experiments
Early telepathy experiments, once thought a failure, now considered statistically significant.
Creative Participants in the Ganzfeld
Series of successful ESP experiments with dance, drama and music students of New York’s Juilliard School.
Creery Telepathy Experiments
Apparently successful early experiments in telepathy later discredited by admissions of cheating.
Decline Effect in Psi Research
Review of the 'decline effect’ in psi testing, a falling off in participants' performance over time.
Delgado-Romero and Howard Telepathy Experiments
Ganzfeld tests intended to correct perceived flaws in experimental design.
Experimental Parapsychology
Overview of efforts to apply experimental methods to the study of psi experiences, from the 1870s to today.
Experimenter Effects in Psi Research
Parapsychologists have come to believe that experimenters play a major role in influencing the outcome of psi tests.
Ariel Farias
Argentinian factory worker and martial arts teacher who took part in recent successful recent psychokinesis experiments.
Feeling the Future (Precognition Experiments)
A ground-breaking ESP study that appeared to show a precognitive effect was reported in 2011.
Ganzfeld ESP
The Ganzfeld is a sensory deprivation laboratory technique that has proven effective in facilitating telepathy and remote viewing.
Gilbert Murray Telepathy Experiments
Successful informal ESP tests carried out by an Australian-British classics scholar (1866-1957).
Lalsingh ‘Sean’ Harribance
Trinidadian psychic of Indian descent who participated in ESP and PK experiments with American researchers from the 1970s.
Jaytee (pet telepathy)
This article describes experiments that appeared to demonstrate a telepathic link between a dog and its owner.
Maimonides Dream Telepathy Research
This article describes ESP dreaming experiments carried out in a New York sleep laboratory.
Meta-Analysis in Parapsychology
Meta-analysis is a statistical procedure that combines studies in a particular area of research to provide more robust findings
Metal-Bending Research
Survey of research into claims that cutlery and other metal objects can potentially be bent by mind force alone.
N’kisi (pet telepathy)
Successful telepathy experiment carried out with an African Grey parrot which had been taught to speak several words.
Observational Theories of Psi
Review of research on the idea that psi works by cognizing and manipulating the invisible underworld of quantum probabilities.
Stefan Ossowiecki
Polish businessman (1877–1944) whose clairvoyant abilities were the subject of successful tests with European psychical researchers.
Precognition Without Retrocausation
Precognitive dreams may be interpreted in terms of retrocausation, but is this the best way?
Presentiment in Laboratory Studies
An unconscious form of precognition that can be demonstrated with techniques commonly used in research on psychophysiology.
Psychometry
Clairvoyance facilitated by holding an object, which enables a psychic to describe key incidents associated with it.
Remote Viewing
An experimental form of clairvoyance, in which a suitably trained person attempts to visualise the topography of a distant scene.
Richet’s ‘La Suggestion Mentale’
In a 1884 paper, physiologist Charles Richet pioneered the use of statistics in telepathy tests.
Ted Serios
Ted Serios (1918–2006) was an adept in the rare phenomenon of ‘thoughtography’ (an ability to 'think' images onto photographic film).
Sheep-Goat Effect
In experimental tests, participants who believe in psi (sheep) score positively while those who do not believe (goats) score at chance.
Sinclair Telepathy Experiments
A successful series of ESP drawing experiments carried out by American author Upton Sinclair and his wife Craig.
Pavel Stepanek
Czech ESP subject who performed consistently well in experiments carried out in Prague and in the US during the 1960s.
Ingo Swann
American artist (1933–2013) whose psychic ability led him to participate in successful ESP and PK experiments in the 1970s.
Transparent Psi Project
This article describes a failed effort to replicate a famous precognitive effect reported by Daryl Bem in 2011.
Unusual Ways of Testing for Psi
Psi abilities have been tested in more ways than the usual ones of card guessing, dice throwing, remote viewing and Ganzfeld.
Wilkins and Sherman Telepathy
A successful long-distance telepathy test was carried out over a five-month period in 1938.