Feeling the future: Experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect
Daryl J. Bem · 2011 · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100(3), 407–425
Summary
Reports nine experiments on time-reversed versions of standard psychological paradigms (priming, recall, habituation), reporting small but statistically significant 'precognition'-consistent effects.
Why it matters here
The most-discussed modern empirical paper claiming evidence for precognition; directly triggered the Wagenmakers et al. critique and helped catalyse psychology's broader replication-crisis conversation.
Editorial note
Treat as historically important and provocative, not as settled proof. Later debate focused heavily on statistical methods, replication, and publication-bias risk.
Linked claims
Given how many dreams we have, occasional 'matches' are statistically inevitable and powerfully memorable.
Most 'intuition' is unconscious inference. A small subset of presentiment studies suggests something else may also be in play.
The reported experience of knowing, sensing, dreaming, or picturing a future event before it happens — sometimes called premonition, presentiment, future sensing, or anomalous anticipation. Real as a common human report; controversial as evidence the future is being directly perceived.