Series Position Effects in Random Event Generator Experiments

Dunne, Brenda J.; Dobyns, York; Jahn, R. G.; Thompson, Allison

doi:10.1016/j.explore.2007.03.026

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“…B. Rhine, 1969) as well as in the early dice tests for PK (Pratt, 1949, p. 15;Reeves & Rhine, 1943). It has also been observed in some PK tests using RNGs (Berger, 1988a;Houtkooper, 2002b), most notably in the benchmark experimental series conducted by the PEAR Laboratory (Dunne et al, 1994;Jahn & Dunne, 2011, pp. 178-179;Nelson et al, 2000) (Figure 7), as well as in the subsequent Mind/Machine Interaction Consortium replication (Jahn et al, 2000).…”

Section: Other Notable Micro-pk Effectsmentioning

confidence: 77%

Minding the Matter of Psychokinesis: A Review of Proof- and Process-Oriented Experimental Findings Related to Mental Influence on Random Number Generators

Williams¹

2022

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Many experiments have been conducted over the past eight decades to explore whether the ostensible psychic ability of psychokinesis (PK, or "mind over matter") might be a genuine human potential, and the most extensive of these have involved attempts to mentally influence the output of electronic, binary-bit random number generators (RNGs). Research of this type can generally be divided into two lines: proof-oriented (concerned with the accumulation and statistical evaluation of data from controlled experiments designed specifically to test for the presence of PK effects on the microscopic scale) and process-oriented (concerned with conducting exploratory experiments designed to systematically vary certain test conditions in order to search for and identify any physical, biological, and psychological factors which might have a role in improving or moderating PK effects). To help orient novice investigators and cross-disciplinary researchers who may be considering work along these lines (as well as offer some initial guiding insight on possible directions for future research), this paper provides a general review of some of the notable proof- and process-oriented findings that have been obtained to date in experimental microscopic PK research using RNGs. The review generally indicates that although a considerable amount of proof-oriented data for micro-PK has accumulated over the years, the relatively sparse amount of process-oriented data available at present leaves a lot of open questions regarding the underlying factors involved, providing ample opportunity for novice investigators and cross-disciplinary researchers to make valuable research contributions in the future.

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Section: Other Notable Micro-pk Effectsmentioning

confidence: 77%

Minding the Matter of Psychokinesis: A Review of Proof- and Process-Oriented Experimental Findings Related to Mental Influence on Random Number Generators

Williams¹

2022

JSE

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Section: Other Notable Micro-pk Effectsmentioning

confidence: 77%

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Erickson

2022

JSE

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“…Specifically, there are statistically significant tendencies for operators to produce better scores in their first series, then to fall off in performance in their second and third, and eventually to recover to some intermediate levels during their fourth, fifth, or subsequent series. Such correlation appears in both local and remote experiments and is also indicated over a sequence of other experimental protocols, but no such effects appear in the baseline or calibration data [10]. Survey of standard psychological literature indicates that similar patterns have been identified in more conventional experiments on perception, cognition, and memory, suggesting that our anomalous serial position effects are primarily psychological in origin, and may subsume the rudimentary 'decline,' 'primacy,' 'recency,' and 'terminal' effects propounded in the parapsychological and psychological literature.…”

Section: Serial Position Effectsmentioning

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Endophysical Models Based on Empirical Data

Jahn¹,

Dunne²

2005

Endophysics, Time, Quantum and the Subjective

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Any proposed endophysical models need to acknowledge a number of subjective correlates that have been well established in such objectively quantifiable experimental contexts as anomalous human/machine interactions and remote perception information acquisition. Most notable of these factors are conscious and unconscious intention; gender disparities; serial position effects; intrinsic uncertainties; elusive replicability; and emotional resonance between the participants and the devices, process, and tasks. Perhaps even more pertinent are the insensitivities of the anomalous effects to spatial and temporal separations of the participants from the physical targets. Inclusion of subjective coordinates in the models, and exclusion of physical distance and time, raise formidable issues of specification, quantification, and dynamical formulation from both the physical and psychological perspectives. A few primitive examples of possible approaches are presented.

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Series Position Effects in Random Event Generator Experiments

Cited by 13 publications

References 27 publications

Minding the Matter of Psychokinesis: A Review of Proof- and Process-Oriented Experimental Findings Related to Mental Influence on Random Number Generators

Minding the Matter of Psychokinesis: A Review of Proof- and Process-Oriented Experimental Findings Related to Mental Influence on Random Number Generators

JSE 35:4 Winter 2021 Whole Issue PDF

Endophysical Models Based on Empirical Data

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