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Can animals detect when their owners are returning home? An experimental test of the 'psychic pet' phenomenon
Wiseman, R.; Smith, M.; Milton, J. (1998)In his book, Seven Experiments That Could Change The World, Rupert Sheldrake suggested that the public carry out experiments to test whether pets can psychically detect when their owners are returning home. The first of ... -
Experiment One of the SAIC Remote Viewing Program: A critical re-evaluation
Wiseman, R.; Milton, J. (1999)The Central Intelligence Agency recently commissioned a report on the effectiveness of US government funded research in demonstrating the existence of a remote viewing effect that could be used for intelligence-gathering ... -
Experiment One of the SAIC Remote Viewing Program: A Critical Re-evaluation - a reply to May
Wiseman, R.; Milton, J. (1999)In our original paper (Wiseman & Milton, 1999), we described a number of potential information leakage pathways in Experiment One of the SAIC remote viewing program. In this paper, we counter May’s assertion that the ... -
An experimental test of psychic detection
Wiseman, R.; West, D.; Stemman, R. (1996) -
Exploring possible sender-to-experimenter acoustic leakage in the PRL autoganzfeld experiments
Wiseman, R.; Smith, M.; Kornbrot, D. (1996) -
The luck factor
Wiseman, R. (2003) -
Luckiness, competition, and performance on a psi task
Smith, M. D.; Wiseman, R.; Machin, D.; Harris, P.; Joiner, R. (1997-03)This paper briefly reviews previous research on luck and psi, and presents a study on luckiness, competition, and performance on a psi task from an ongoing research project into the psychology and parapsychology of luck ... -
The MegaLab truth test
Wiseman, R. (1995-02-02) -
'MegaLab UK' : Participatory science and the mass media
Wiseman, R. (1996-04-01)For the past two years, the 'MegaLab UK' initiative has carried out huge participatory science demonstrations on national television, radio and in newspapers. This paper outlines the methods and results of two MegaLab ... -
The Mind Machine : A mass participation experiment into the possible existence of Extrasensory Perception
Wiseman, R.; Greening, E. (2002)For many years scientists have examined the possible existence of extra-sensory perception (ESP). One of the most common types of experiment, referred to as a ‘forced choice’ study, involves participants attempting to guess ... -
Perceptual-personality characteristics associated with naturalistic haunt experiences
Houran, J.; Wiseman, R.; Thalboume, M. (2002) -
The 'psychic pet' phenomenon: a reply to Rupert Sheldrake
Wiseman, R.; Smith, M.; Milton, J. (2000)Rupert Sheldrake (1999a) has published a note in the previous issue of the Journal criticising our research into the ‘psychic pet’ phenomenon. Certain points arising from this criticism have also been included in his recent ... -
Recalling pseudo-psychic demonstrations
Wiseman, R.; Morris, R.L. (1995)This paper describes two experiments which investigate how believers in the paranormal (labelled 'Sheep') and disbelievers (labelled 'Goats') recall different aspects of pseudo-psychic demonstrations (i.e., conjuring tricks ... -
The rise and fall of the Indian rope trick
Lamont, P.; Wiseman, R. (2001) -
Theatre of science
Wiseman, R. (2002-10)