Failing the Future: Three Unsuccessful Attempts to Replicate Bem's 'Retroactive Facilitation of Recall' Effect

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作者
Ritchie, Stuart J. [1 ]
Wiseman, Richard [2 ]
French, Christopher C. [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Edinburgh, Dept Psychol, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
[2] Univ Hertfordshire, Sch Psychol, Hatfield AL10 9AB, Herts, England
[3] Univ London, Anomalist Psychol Res Unit, London, England
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PLOS ONE | 2012年 / 7卷 / 03期
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10.1371/journal.pone.0033423
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Nine recently reported parapsychological experiments appear to support the existence of precognition. We describe three pre-registered independent attempts to exactly replicate one of these experiments, 'retroactive facilitation of recall', which examines whether performance on a memory test can be influenced by a post-test exercise. All three replication attempts failed to produce significant effects (combined n = 150; combined p = .83, one-tailed) and thus do not support the existence of psychic ability.
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