{"id":3433,"date":"2020-01-17T10:40:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T10:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=3433"},"modified":"2020-01-17T10:44:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T10:44:31","slug":"the-latest-on-psychic-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/psychology\/the-latest-on-psychic-research\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest on Psychic Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canterbury.ac.uk\/social-and-applied-sciences\/psychology-politics-and-sociology\/Staff\/Profile.aspx?staff=79bdff94814a4038\">Dr\nDavid Vernon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve just returned from the 43<sup>rd<\/sup> Annual\nInternational Conference of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spr.ac.uk\/\">Society for\nPsychical Research<\/a> which was held this year in Leicester. Delegates were a\nmix of those interested in psychic phenomena, those who claim to be psychic and\nthose, like me, who conduct scientific research in the field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spr.ac.uk\/publications-recordings\/conference-abstracts\">conference<\/a>\ndelivered an interesting selection of talks from a diverse range of topics.\nIncluding, the use of psychedelics to access altered states of consciousness,\nnear death experiences, electronic voice phenomena and the notion that such\nevents and experiences are more <em>normal<\/em>\nthan <em>paranormal. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I gave a talk which reported the results from my latest\nlab-based study focusing on precognition. Here, the idea is that something you\ndo in the future can influence your behaviour now. Whilst this may sound odd a\nnumber of research scientists from around the world have shown some very\nintriguing effects which suggest that just such an effect is possible. However,\nnot everyone has been able to replicate these findings and I\u2019ve been running a\nseries of studies to try and shed some light on these potential precognitive\neffects. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on your preferred point of\nview, my current study did not show any evidence that exposure to images and\nwords in the future influenced your responses to these stimuli in the here and\nnow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now there are two ways to interpret such a null result. The\nfirst is that no effect was found because there is none. And many may favour\nthis approach. However, the alternative is that the effect is real and I simply\nfailed to find it. Hence, for me, for now, its back to the drawing board to\nre-think my approach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll let you know how it goes. . . or perhaps you already\nknow. . . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Want to know more<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spr.ac.uk\/home\">Society for Psychical\nResearch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.parapsych.org\/home.aspx\">Parapsychological\nAssociation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/noetic.org\/\">Institute of Noetic Sciences<\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dr David Vernon I\u2019ve just returned from the 43rd Annual International Conference of the Society for Psychical Research which was held this year in Leicester. 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