Daryl Bem ponders the future (Image: Martin Adolfsson for 91av)
Yes we can, according to a controversial new paper by leading social psychologist Daryl Bem. He tells Peter Aldhous how his hobby of stage magic led to a quest to bring parapsychology into the scientific mainstream
What does your show?
There are several alleged effects that we call “psi”, known popularly as extrasensory perception (ESP). Precognition – the perception of future events – is one of them. I took effects that all psychologists believe in and I reversed them in time. For example, if you present people…
