A reexamination of the precognitive ability to avoid negative stimuli

ヨチ　ノウリョク　ノ　ソンザイ　ノ　ケントウ　ネガティブ　シゲキ　ノ　ジゼン　カイヒ

イマムラ, ユキ

Imamura, Yuki

釘原, 直樹

クギハラ, ナオキ

Kugihara, Naoki

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ タイジン シャカイ シンリガク ケンキュウシツ

予知

超感覚的知覚

山羊・羊効果

psi

parapsychology

ESP(Extrasensory Perception)

precognition

sheep-goat effect

The purpose of the study was to reexamine the experiment of precognitive avoidance of negative stimuli (Bem,2011). Although, several researchers have attempted to replicate the results of Bem’s study, they have had inconsistent results. Galak, Leboueuf, Nelson&Simmons(2012) criticized that the result of Bem’s study was derived from large sample size and false rejection of null hypothesis. Therefore, we reexamined Bem’s study by assembling adequate number of participants. In addition, because the degree of believing in psi is said to have effects on precognitive ability (sheep-goat effect(Schmeidler,1945)), we me asured the score of Paranormal　Belief Scale (Nakajima, Sato & Watanabe, 1993) and compared the performance of participants who have different level of believing in psi. Our results did not match those reported by Bem; thus, we were not able to replicate the 2011 precognitive ability study.

釘原, 直樹