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Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect
- Type
- Study
- By
- Daryl J. Bem
- Journal
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Source
- JPSP ↗
- Published
- 2011
Nine experiments claimed that future events can leak backward into present memory and choice, a high-profile modern claim of precognition.
The meaning
A top peer-reviewed journal published a full slate of positive results, which supporters read as evidence that time and mind may not run in only one direction.
The skeptic
Independent replications failed, and the paper became a case study in how flexible analysis can manufacture small effects that are not real.
About the research
Cornell social psychologist whose 2011 precognition paper ignited the replication debate.
Key takeaways
- Published in a top journal in 2011.
- Claimed future events influence present responses across nine experiments.
- Failed independent replication and became a landmark in the replication crisis.