Afterthoughts on precognition

• Verfasst von: Fiedler, Klaus [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Krueger, Joachim I. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Afterthoughts on precognition
• Titelzusatz: no cogent evidence for anomalous influences of consequent events on preceding cognition
• Verf.angabe: Klaus Fiedler, Joachim I. Krueger
• E-Jahr: 2013
• Jahr: April 26, 2013
• Umfang: 11 S.
• Teil: volume:23
• Teil: year:2013
• Teil: number:3
• Teil: pages:323-333
• Teil: extent:11
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 15.03.2021
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Theory & psychology
• Ort Quelle: Thousand Oaks, Calif.[u.a.] : Sage Publ., 1991
• Jahr Quelle: 2013
• Band/Heft Quelle: 23(2013), 3, Seite 323-333
• ISSN Quelle: 1461-7447
• ISSN Quelle: 0959-3543
• DOI: doi:10.1177/0959354313485504
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Fiedler, Klaus, 1951 - : Afterthoughts on precognition. - 2013
• Sach-SW: context of discovery
• Sach-SW: context of justification
• Sach-SW: explanandum
• Sach-SW: explanans
• Sach-SW: philosophy of science
• Sach-SW: social cognition
• K10plus-PPN: 1751355276

Abstract

In a recently published major article in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Daryl Bem (2011) made a strong claim for the existence of a parapsychological phenomenon called retroactive causation. Across nine experiments, aspects of stimuli were shown to correlate with participants’ responses provided before the stimuli were generated by the computer’s random generator. Early critical debates of these provocative findings have been focused on issues of statistical significance testing. Going beyond these issues, we argue that Bem’s research has three crucial shortcomings: (a) a lack of a theoretical explanation, (b) the possibility of selective filtering of empirical results, and (c) the confusion of the explanans and the explanandum. We propose that all three methodological principles should be rigorously applied during the journal review process and the communication of empirical findings in general.