Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 407-425

  Bem, Daryl J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

ESP; Parapsychology; Precognition; Psi; Retrocausation

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BOREDOM; COGNITION; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; MALE; PARAPSYCHOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PUBLICATION; RECALL; TIME;

AFFECT; AWARENESS; BOREDOM; COGNITION; EROTICA; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PARAPSYCHOLOGY; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79952093573     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021524     Document Type: Article

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