Anomalous information reception by research mediums under blinded conditions II: Replication and extension
Julie Beischel, Mark Boccuzzi, et al. · 2015 · Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing, 11(2), 136-142
This source is used as supports evidence across 2 linked claims and 5 related evidence hubs. Its citation record is marked verified; that verifies the source trail, not the truth of any linked claim.
Summary
Follow-up blinded mediumship study using phone readings and blinded raters, reporting above-chance target reading performance under controls intended to reduce conventional information leakage.
How this source is used on the map
Useful as a claimed replication/extension of the 2007 Windbridge-style protocol; still controversial, but much stronger than anecdotal stage mediumship.
Citation record
- Authors
- Julie Beischel, Mark Boccuzzi, et al.
- Year
- 2015
- Publication
- Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing, 11(2), 136-142
- Source type
- Study
- Map role
- supports
- Credibility level
- primary
- Citation status
- Verified
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.explore.2015.01.001
- PubMed
- Recorded
- Not recorded
Linked claims
Stage mentalists reproduce 'mediumship' on demand. Cold and hot reading are well-documented techniques.
Most claimed mediumship is reproducible by cold reading. Some controlled lab studies (Beischel and others) report small but anomalous effects.
Related evidence hubs
Evidence around dying, near-death experience, and what (if anything) continues.
Cryptomnesia, anoxia models, cold reading. Counter-anchors.
Reports of contact with the deceased.
Whether anything of mind continues.
Telepathy, precognition, remote viewing, PK.
Related research reports
A comparative guide to the strongest survival-adjacent evidence: NDEs, terminal lucidity, deathbed visions, past-life memories, mediumship, and after-death communication.
A careful guide to spiritual claims that are popular but weakly supported, including astrology, reiki, auras, crystals, manifestation, numerology, and predictive tarot.
Related sources
A core positive mediumship paper because it explicitly targets cold reading, sitter cueing, experimenter cueing, and fraud as alternative explanations.
Major reference for the sceptical / cognitive-explanation side of psi-style claims.
Foundational source for the Barnum/Forer effect, a central ordinary-cognition explanation for astrology, tarot, numerology, and psychic readings feeling personally accurate.
Direct reference for the 'cold reading explains mediumship' skeptical hypothesis.
The single most-cited cognitive mechanism behind subjectively-convincing astrology, tarot, cold-reading, and 'this happened for a reason' inferences.
Useful for both the phenomenon's claims and the well-developed sceptical literature.