For decades, scientists have been exploring whether gut feelings can actually sense events before they happen. Known as precognition, this eerie phenomenon has long been dismissed as superstition.

Key points A decade ago, Daryl Bem's flawed paper on precognition was published in the leading social psychology journal. Bem's paper radically changed psychology, but not by increasing acceptance of ...

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Predicting the future may be impossible, but that doesn't stop many people from believing that some have the power to do so. In fact, a new study finds people are more prone to believe in ...

In “Spoiled Science” (March 31), Tom Bartlett briefly refers to a 2011 publication of mine that appeared in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. It presented the results of nine ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Philosophy, the journal of The Royal Institute of Philosophy is published by Cambridge University Press quarterly in January, April ...

In my previous post, we looked at how studying “unserious” topics like reactions to alien life or competing with robots for jobs can give us deeper insight into what makes us tick, and maybe even how ...