Research Articles

All Research Links Hosted by Dr. Dean Radin

Distant healing

Astin et al (2000). The efficacy of “distant healing”: A systematic review of randomized trials. Annals of Internal Medicine. pdf

Leibovici (2001). Effects of remote, retroactive intercessory prayer on outcomes in patients with bloodstream infection: Randomised controlled trial. British Medical Journal. pdf

Krucoff et al (2001). Integrative noetic therapies as adjuncts to percutaneous intervention during unstable coronary syndromes: Monitoring and Actualization of Noetic Training (MANTRA) feasibility pilot. American Heart Journal. pdf

Radin et al (2004). Possible effects of healing intention on cell cultures and truly random events.. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf

Krucoff et al (2005). Music, imagery, touch, and prayer as adjuncts to interventional cardiac care: the Monitoring and Actualisation of Noetic Trainings (MANTRA) II randomised study. The Lancet. pdf

Benson et al (2006).  Study of the therapeutic effects of intercessory prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients. American Heart Journal. pdf

Masters & Spielmans (2007). Prayer and health: Review, meta-analysis, and research agenda. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. pdf

Schwartz & Dossey (2010). Nonlocality, intention, and observer effects in healing studies. Laying a foundation for the future Explore. pdf

Schwartz et al (2015). Infrared spectra alteration in water proximate to the palms of therapeutic practitioners.  Explore. pdf

Schlitz et al (2012). Distant healing of surgical wounds: An exploratory study. Explore. pdf

Distant physiological correlations

Duane & Behrendt (1965). Extrasensory electroencephalographic induction between identical twins. Science. pdf

Grinberg-Zylberbaum et al (1994). The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox in the brain: The transferred potential. Physics Essays. pdf

Wiseman & Schlitz (1997). Experimenter effects and the remote detection of staring. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf

Standish et al (2003). Evidence of correlated functional magnetic resonance imaging signals between distant human brains. Alternative Therapies. pdf

Wackermann et al (2003). Correlations between brain electrical activities of two spatially separated human subjects. Neuroscience Letters. pdf

Schmidt et al (2004). Distant intentionality and the feeling of being stared at: Two meta-analyses. British Journal of Psychology. pdf

Radin (2004).  Event related EEG correlations between isolated human subjects. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf

Standish et al (2004). Electroencephalographic evidence of correlated event-related signals between the brains of spatially and sensory isolated human subjects. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf

Richards et al (2005). Replicable functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence of correlated brain signals between physically and sensory isolated subjects. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf

Achterberg et al (2005). Evidence for correlations between distant intentionality and brain function in recipients: A functional magnetic resonance imaging analysis. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf

Radin (2005). The sense of being stared at: A preliminary meta-analysis. Journal of Consciousness Studies. pdf

Radin & Schlitz (2005). Gut feelings, intuition, and emotions: An exploratory study. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine pdf

Schlitz et al (2006). Of two minds: Skeptic-proponent collaboration within parapsychology. British Journal of Psychology. pdf

Radin et al (2008).  Compassionate intention as a therapeutic intervention by partners of  cancer patients: Effects of distant intention on the patients’ autonomic nervous system. Explore. pdf

Moulton & Kosslyn (2008). Using neuroimaging to resolve the psi debate. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. pdf

Ambach (2008). Correlations between the EEGs of two spatially separated subjects − a replication study. European Journal of Parapsychology. pdf

Hinterberger (2010). Searching for neuronal markers of psi: A summary of three studies measuring electrophysiology in distant participants. pdf

Schmidt (2012). Can we help just by good intentions? A meta-analysis of experiments on distant intention effects.

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine pdf

Jensen & Parker (2012). Entangled in the womb? A pilot study on the possible physiological connectedness between identical twins with different embryonic backgrounds. Explore. pdf

Parker & Jensen (2013). Further possible physiological connectedness between identical twins: The London study. Explore pdf

Remote viewing (clairvoyance), telepathy, general ESP

Remote viewing (clairvoyance)

Targ & Puthoff (1974). Information transmission under conditions of sensory shielding. Nature. pdf

Puthoff & Targ (1976). A perceptual channel for information transfer over kilometer distance: Historical perspective and recent research. Proceedings of the IEEE. pdf

May et al (1990). Advances in remote-viewing analysis. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf

Spottiswoode (1997). Apparent association between effect size in free response anomalous cognition experiments and local sidereal time. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf

Telepathy and general ESP

Eisenberg & Donderi (1979). Telepathic transfer of emotional information in humans. Journal of Psychology. pdf

Bem & Honorton (1994). Does psi exist? Psychological Bulletin. pdf

Hyman (1994). Anomaly or artifact? Comments on Bem and Honorton. Psychological Bulletin. pdf

Bem (1994). Response to Hyman. Psychological Bulletin. pdf

 

Milton & Wiseman (1999). Does psi exist? Lack of replication of an anomalous process of information transfer. Psychological Bulletin. pdf

Sheldrake & Smart (2000). Testing a return-anticipating dog, Kane. Anthrozoös. pdf

Sheldrake & Smart (2000). A dog that seems to know when his owner to coming home: Videotaped experiments and observations. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf

Storm & Ertel (2001). Does psi exist? Comments on Milton and Wiseman's (1999) meta-analysis of ganzfeld research. Psychological Bulletin. pdf

Milton & Wiseman (2001). Does Psi Exist? Reply to Storm and Ertel (2001). Psychological Bulletin pdf

Sheldrake & Morgana (2003). Testing a language-using parrot for telepathy. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf

Sheldrake & Smart (2003). Videotaped experiments on telephone telepathy. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf

Sherwood & Roe (2003). A review of dream ESP studies conducted since the Maimonides dream ESP programme. Journal of Consciousness Studies pdf

Delgado-Romero & Howard (2005). Finding and correcting flawed research literatures. The Humanistic Psychologist. pdf

Hastings (2007). Comment on Delgado-Romero and Howard. The Humanistic Psychologist. pdf

Radin (2007). Finding or imagining flawed research? .The Humanistic Psychologist. pdf

Storm et al (2010).  Meta-analysis of free-response studies, 1992–2008: Assessing the noise reduction model in parapsychology. Psychological Bulletin pdf

Storm et al (2010). A meta-analysis with nothing to hide: Reply to Hyman (2010). Psychological Bulletin pdf

Tressoldi (2011). Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence: the case of non-local perception, a classical and Bayesian review of evidences. Frontiers in Psychology. pdf

Tressoldi et al (2011). Mental connection at distance: Useful for solving difficult tasks?  Psychology. pdf

Williams (2011). Revisiting the ganzfeld ESP debate: A basic review and assessment. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf

Rouder et al (2013). A Bayes Factor meta-analysis of recent extrasensory perception experiments: Comment on Storm,

Tressoldi, and Di Risio (2010). Psychological Bulletin pdf

Storm et al (2013).  Testing the Storm et al. (2010) Meta-Analysis using Bayesian and frequentist approaches: Reply to Rouder et al. (2013). Psychological Bulletin pdf

Storm et al (2017).  On the correspondence between dream content and target material under laboratory conditions:
A meta-analysis of dream-ESP studies, 1966-2016.
International Journal of Dream Research  pdf

Storm & Tressoldi (2020).  Meta-analysis of free-response studies 2009-2018: Assessing the noise-reduction model ten years on.  pdf

General reviews and applications

Overviews and commentaries​

Rao & Palmer (1987). The anomaly called psi: Recent research and criticism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. pdf

Utts (1996). An assessment of the evidence for psychic functioning. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf

Alcock (2003). Give the null hypothesis a chance. Journal of Consciousness Studies pdf

Parker & Brusewitz (2003). A compendium of the evidence for psi. European Journal of Parapsychology pdf

Jahn & Dunne (2005). The PEAR Proposition. Explore. pdf

Carter (2010). Heads I lose, tails you win. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. pdf

Schwartz (2010). Nonlocality and exceptional experiences: A study of genius, religious epiphany, and the psychic. Explore. pdf

Utts (2016). Appreciating statistics. Journal of the American Statistical Association. pdf

Cardeña (2018). The experimental evidence for parapsychological phenomena: A review. American Psychologist. pdf

Schwartz (2018). Nonlocal consciousness and the anthropology of religion. Explore.  pdf

Reber & Alcock (2019). Searching for the impossible: Parapsychology’s elusive quest. American Psychologist. pdf

Rabeyron (2020). Why most research findings about psi are false: The replicability crisis, the psi paradox, and the myth of Sisyphus. Frontiers in Psychology. pdf

Applications

Kolodziejzyk (2012). Greg Kolodziejzyk's 13-year associative remote viewing experiment results. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf


Schwartz (2019). The location and reconstruction of a Byzantine structure in Marea, Egypt, including a comparison of electronic remote sensing and remote viewing .Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf

Schwartz and DeMattei (2020). The discovery of an American brig: Fieldwork involving applied remote viewing
Including a comparison with electronic remote sensing.  .
Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf

Survival of consciousness

Braude  (1992). Survival or super-psi. Journal of Scientific Exploration   pdf

 

van Lommel et al (2001). Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands. The Lancet.   pdf

Braude  (2005). Personal identity and postmortem survival. Social Philosophy and Policy   pdf

van Lommel (2006). Near-death experience, consciousness, and the brain. World Futures.  pdf

Beischel & Schwartz (2007). Anomalous information reception by research mediums demonstrated using a novel triple-blind protocol. Explore. pdf

Braude  (2009). Perspectival Awareness and Postmortem Survival. Journal of Scientific Exploration   pdf

Neppe (2009). A detailed analysis of an important chess game revisiting "Marcozy versus Korchnoi" Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. pdf

Greyson (2010). Seeing dead people not known to have died: “Peak in Darien” experiences. Anthropology and Humanism pdf

Kelly (2010). Some directions for mediumship research. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf

Kelly & Arcangel (2011). An investigation of mediums who claim to give information about deceased persons. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease pdf

Nahm et al (2011). Terminal lucidity: A review and a case collection. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics pdf

Facco & Agrillo (2012).   Near-death experiences between science and prejudice. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience pdf

Matlock (2012). Bibliography of reincarnation resources online (articles and books, all downloadable) pdf

Beischel et al. (2015). Anomalous information reception by research mediums under blinded conditions II: Replication and extension. Explore  pdf

Neppe et al. (2019). .The remarkable Besant-Leadbeater studies in quantal clairvoyance (quantal remote viewing) correlate profoundly with the Triadic Rotational Units of Equivalence Quantal models in Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm. IQNJ pdf

Precognition

Honorton & Ferrari (1989). “Future telling”: A meta-analysis of forced-choice precognition experiments, 1935-1987. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf

Spottiswoode & May (2003). Skin conductance prestimulus response analyses, artifacts and a pilot study. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf

Radin (2004).  Electrodermal presentiments of future emotions. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf

McCraty et al (2004). Electrophysiological Evidence of Intuition: Part 1. The Surprising Role of the Heart. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.   pdf

McCraty et al (2004). Electrophysiological Evidence of Intuition: Part 2. A System-Wide Process? Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf

Radin & Lobach (2007). Toward understanding the placebo effect: Investigating a possible retrocausal factor. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine pdf

Radin & Borges (2009). Intuition through time: What does the seer see? Explore. pdf

Bem (2011). Feeling the future: Experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology pdf

Bem et al (2011). Must psychologists change the way they analyze their data? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology   pdf

Bierman (2011). Anomalous switching of the bi-stable percept of a Necker Cube. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf

Radin et al (2011). Electrocortical activity prior to unpredictable stimuli in meditators and non-meditators. Explore.  pdf

Radin (2011). Predicting the unpredictable: 75 years of experimental evidence. Explore.  pdf

Tressoldi et al (2011). Let your eyes predict : Prediction accuracy of pupillary responses to random alerting and neutral sounds. SAGE Open. pdf

Galek et al (2012).  Correcting the past: Failures to replicate psi.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.  pdf

Mossbridge et al (2012). Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: a meta-analysis. Frontiers in Psychology. pdf

Bem et al (2014). Feeling the future: A meta-analysis of 90 experiments on the anomalous anticipation of random future events. F1000Research. pdf

Mossbridge et al (2014). Predicting the unpredictable: Critical analysis and practical implications of predictive anticipatory activity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. pdf

Schwarzkopf (2014). We should have seen this coming. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. pdf

Mossbridge et al (2015). We did see this coming. arXiv.org . pdf

Woody and Lynn (2018). Perspectives on precognition. Psychology of Consciousness . pdf

Mossbridge and Radin (2018). Precognition as a form of prospection: A review of the evidence. Psychology of Consciousness  pdf

Schooler et al (2018). Entertaining without endorsing: The case for the scientific investigation of anomalous cognition. Psychology of Consciousness . pdf

Houran et al (2018). Cross-examining the case for precognition: Comment on Mossbridge and Radin (2018) .Psychology of Consciousness. pdf

Schwarzkopf (2018). On the plausibility of scientific hypotheses: Commentary on Mossbridge and Radin (2018). Psychology of Consciousness. pdf

Mossbridge and Radin (2018). Plausibility, statistical interpretations, physical mechanisms and a new outlook: Response to commentaries on a precognition review. Psychology of Consciousness  pdf

Maier et al (2020). A preregistered multi-lab replication of Maier et al. (2014, Exp. 4) testing retroactive avoidance. PLOS One.  pdf

Theory

Josephson & Pallikari-Viras (1991). Biological utilisation of quantum nonlocality. Foundations of Physics. pdf

May et al (1995). Decision augmentation theory: Towards a model of anomalous mental phenomena. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf

Houtkooper (2002). Arguing for an observational theory of paranormal phenomena. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf

Bierman (2003). Does consciousness collapse the wave-packet? Mind and Matter. pdf

Dunne & Jahn (2005). Consciousness, information, and living systems. Cellular and Molecular Biology. pdf

Henry (2005). The mental universe. Nature. pdf

Hiley & Pylkkanen (2005). Can mind affect matter via active information? Mind & Matter. pdf

Lucadou et al (2007). Synchronistic phenomena as entanglement correlations in generalized quantum theory. Journal of Consciousness Studies. pdf

Rietdijk (2007). Four-dimensional physics, nonlocal coherence, and paranormal phenomena. Physics Essays. pdf

Bierman (2010). Consciousness induced restoration of time symmetry (CIRTS ): A psychophysical theoretical perspective. Journal of Parapsychology.  pdf

Tressoldi et al (2010). Extrasensory perception and quantum models of cognition. Neuroquantology. pdf

Tressoldi (2012). Replication unreliability in psychology: elusive phenomena or “elusive” statistical power? Frontiers in Psychology. pdf

Kauffman & Radin (2021). Is brain-mind quantum? A theory and supporting evidence. arXiv. pdf

Mind-matter interaction

Studies of historical interest

Crookes (1874). Researches in the phenomena of spiritualism. The Quarterly Journal of Science. pdf

Crookes (1874). Notes of séances with DDH (physical medium Daniel D. Home). pdf

Medhurst & Goldney (1964). William Crookes and the physical phenomena of mediumship. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research. pdf

Merrifield (1885/1971). Merrifield’s report (on D. D. Home). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. pdf

Zorab (1971).  Were D. D. Home’s ‘spirit hands” ever fraudulently produced? Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. pdf

Experimental studies and meta-analyses

Jahn (1982). The persistent paradox of psychic phenomena: An engineering perspective. Proceedings of the IEEE.  pdf

Schmidt (1987). The strange properties of psychokinesis. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf

Schmidt (1990). Correlation between mental processes and external random events. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf

Radin & Nelson (1989). Evidence for consciousness-related anomalies in random physical systems. Foundations of Physics. pdf

Radin & Ferrari (1991). Effects of consciousness on the fall of dice: A meta-analysis.. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf

Jahn et al (1997). Correlations of random binary sequences with pre-stated operator intention: A review of a 12-year program. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf

Freedman et al (2003). Effects of frontal lobe lesions on intentionality and random physical phenomena. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf

Bosch et al (2006).  Examining psychokinesis: The interaction of human intention with random number generators. Psychological Bulletin. pdf

Radin et al (2006). Reexamining psychokinesis. Psychological Bulletin.  pdf

Radin et al (2006). Assessing the evidence for mind-matter interaction effects. Journal of Scientific Exploration.  pdf

Radin (2006). Experiments testing models of mind-matter interaction. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf

Radin. (2008). Testing nonlocal observation as a source of intuitive knowledge. Explore.  pdf

Radin et al (2012). Consciousness and the double-slit interference pattern: Six experiments. Physics Essays. pdf

Radin et al (2021). Psychophysical interactions with a double-slit interference pattern: Exploratory evidence of a causal influence. Physics Essays  pdf

Shiah & Radin (2013). A randomized trial investigating the roles of intention and belief on mood while drinking tea. Explore. pdf

Shiah et al (2017). Effects of intentionally treated water on growth of Arabidopsis Thaliana seeds with cryptochrome mutations. Explore. pdf

Freedman et al (2018). Mind-matter interactions and the frontal lobes of the brain: A novel neurobiological model of psi inhibition. Explore. pdf

Schwartz (2019). Water, wine and the sacred, an anthropological view of substances altered by intentioned awareness, including objective and aesthetic effects.. Explore. pdf

Walach et al. (2020). Evidence for anomalistic correlations between human behavior and a random event generator: Result of an independent replication of a micro-PK experiment. Psychology of Consciousness. pdf

Field Consciousness Studies

Nelson et al (2002). Correlations of continuous random data with major world events. Foundations of Physics Letters. pdf

Crawford et al (2003). Alterations in random event measures associated with a healing practice. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf

Nelson & Bancel (2011). Effects of mass consciousness: Changes in random data during global events. Explore. pdf

Bancel (2017). Searching for global consciousness: A seventeen year exploration. Explore. pdf  supplementary

Nelson (2017). Weighting the parameters, a response to Bancel's "Searching for global consciousness: A seventeen year exploration". Explore. pdf

Holmberg, U. (2020). Stock returns and the mind. Journal of Consciousness Studies. pdf