Anomalous information reception by research mediums demonstrated using a novel triple-blind protocol
Julie Beischel, Gary E. Schwartz · 2007 · Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing, 3(1), 23-27
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
Small triple-blind study testing whether selected research mediums could report accurate information about deceased people while the medium, sitter, and experimenter were shielded from ordinary cueing.
How this source is used on the map
A core positive mediumship paper because it explicitly targets cold reading, sitter cueing, experimenter cueing, and fraud as alternative explanations.
Citation record
- Authors
- Julie Beischel, Gary E. Schwartz
- Year
- 2007
- Publication
- Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing, 3(1), 23-27
- Source type
- Study
- Map role
- supports
- Credibility level
- primary
- Citation status
- Verified
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.explore.2006.10.004
- 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
Useful as a claimed replication/extension of the 2007 Windbridge-style protocol; still controversial, but much stronger than anecdotal stage mediumship.
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.