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
This source is used as supports evidence across 3 linked claims and 2 related evidence hubs. Its citation record is marked verified; that verifies the source trail, not the truth of any linked claim.
Summary
Reports nine experiments on time-reversed versions of standard psychological paradigms (priming, recall, habituation), reporting small but statistically significant 'precognition'-consistent effects.
How this source is used on the map
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.
Citation record
- Authors
- Daryl J. Bem
- Year
- 2011
- Publication
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100(3), 407–425
- Source type
- Journal article
- Map role
- supports
- Credibility level
- primary
- Citation status
- Verified
- DOI
- 10.1037/a0021524
- PubMed
- Not recorded
- Not recorded
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.
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A balanced synthesis of the strongest and weakest evidence across afterlife, consciousness, reincarnation, mystical, psi, and practice claims.
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The most-cited modern meta-analysis on presentiment; central to debate about whether physiology can show anticipatory responses to future stimuli.
The canonical historical case base for spontaneous precognition and related psi-style experiences; cited across the field as the starting point for spontaneous-case methodology.
Reference for any claim involving the cognitive nature of dreams, especially claims that dreams are spiritually revelatory or anomalously predictive.
Major reference for the sceptical / cognitive-explanation side of psi-style claims.
Foundational sceptical reply — also helped trigger the broader replication-crisis conversation in psychology.
Useful general-audience anchor for psi-related claims; gives both the field's self-description and the standard sceptical critique.