Pretty sick article from psychology world:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...he-future.html
Quote:
Extraordinary claims don't come much more extraordinary than this: events that haven't yet happened can influence our behaviour.
Parapsychologists have made outlandish claims about precognition – knowledge of unpredictable future events – for years. But the fringe phenomenon is about to get a mainstream airing: a [Cornell University] paper providing evidence for its existence has been accepted for publication by the leading social psychology journal.
There are a few studies, here are two of them:
1) Subjects are shown a list of words, then recall words from it. Later, they are told to type certain (random) words from the list. People were better at recalling words they were later asked to type. (???)
2) Subjects were told that an erotic image would be displayed on either the left or the right side of the screen. They guess which side it will be on. The side is then randomly determined. Subjects guessed right 53.1% of the time, which given the large sample size, would happen only 1% of the time if there were no effect. (husng relevent)
Nerds like me can read the whole paper here:
http://dbem.ws/FeelingFuture.pdf
It sure as hell sounds like complete ********/fake/made up/running megahot. These things tend to come and go. But they don't usually have this kind of institutional backing. The race will be on to replicate and confirm.