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Presentiment Research: Past, Present, and Future

Intro Eva Lobach. Mathematics B.Sc.Psychology Research Methods M.Sc. 1999, University of AmsterdamResearch projects on parapsychological subjects, intuition, and decision making (1999

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Presentiment Research: Past, Present, and Future

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    1. Presentiment Research: Past, Present, and Future Utrecht II 16 October 2008 Eva Lobach University of Amsterdam

    2. Intro Eva Lobach Mathematics B.Sc. Psychology Research Methods M.Sc. 1999, University of Amsterdam Research projects on parapsychological subjects, intuition, and decision making (1999 � present) Maths courses for psychology students Ph.D. project with Prof. Dr. Dick Bierman on intuitive decision making (2005 � present).

    3. Presentiment

    4. Presentiment: definition Presentiment is also known as �anomalous prestimulus response�. Presentiment is an unconscious sensing of an event in the future. Presentiment may influence decision making. Presentiment can be measured as physiological changes (heartrate, EEG, skin conductance level, etc.).

    5. Presentiment Research: Past Spontaneous cases inspired presentiment research. Early measurements of physiological processes (EEG, skin conductance) in parapsychological experiments. (Hartwell, 1978; Vassy, 1978). Analysis was cumbersome and error prone. Results were mixed.

    6. Presentiment Research: Present (1/8) New series of presentiment experiments initiated by Dean Radin. Replicated by Dick Bierman. E.g., Bierman & Radin, 1997

    7. Presentiment Research: Present (2/8) Typical presentiment study: Independent variable Emotional and neutral future events: 30 randomly presented emotional and neutral pictures; 2 : 1 ratio Dependent measure Electro Dermal Activity (Skin conductance level)

    8. Presentiment Research: Present (3/8)

    9. Presentiment Research: Present (4/8) Typical presentiment results:

    10. Presentiment Research: Present (5/8) Types of stimuli used in presentiment studies Visual stimuli: Photos; neutral, violent, and erotic (compared with each other) Light flashes (compared with no flash trials) Auditory stimuli: Neutral and unpleasant sounds (compared with each other) Loud bursts of white noise or other startling sounds (compared with silence trials) All types of stimuli showed presentiment effects.

    11. Presentiment Research: Present (6/8) Physiological measures used in presentiment studies Electrodermal activity (Skin Conductance Level or Skin Conductance Response) Heartrate changes EEG fMRI

    12. Presentiment Research: Present (7/8) Types of participants in presentiment studies Unselected participants (about 10 studies) Meditators (3 studies) Therapeutic Touch students (one study) Men and women (all studies)

    13. Presentiment Research: Present (8/8) Variations in experimental design Participant initiates each trial + trial course is always the same. Participant is passive + timing of stimuli is randomly varied. Comparing different groups of participants and/or different consciousness states (e.g. meditation vs. non-meditation) in one experimental set-up

    14. Presentiment Research: Current Theoretical Approaches (1/5)

    15. Presentiment Research: Current Theoretical Approaches (2/5)

    16. Presentiment Research: Current Theoretical Approaches (3/5)

    17. Presentiment Research: Current Theoretical Approaches (4/5)

    18. Presentiment Research: Current Theoretical Approaches (5/5)

    19. Presentiment Research: The Future

    20. Thank You

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