Yesterday (Tuesday 3rd) we looked at how psychokinesis (the manipulation of objects or events without physical contact) has been studied experimentally. We looked at one study in detail, by Richard Wiseman, that nicely illustrates the power of suggestion and experimenter effects. We also evaluated the results behind psychokinetic studies and some of the implications. Micro-PK (eg predicting a dice rolling or influencing random numbers) has been introduced as a slightly more objective way of studying the phenomena.
Today's ppt is here.
We answered some exam questions - please finish these if you did not do so - these are listed on the last slide of the ppt.
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