Anomalous Anticipatory Skin Conductance Response to Acoustic Stimuli: Experimental Results and Speculation About a Mechanism

May, Edwin C.; Paulinyi, Tamás; Vassy, Z.

doi:10.1089/acm.2005.11.695

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“…Researchers have thus, obtained small but significant differences in the intensity of reactions before the stimulus. The same kind of protocol has been carried out in different settings, for example, using sounds instead of pictures (May et al, 2005) or using image-priming, with smiling and angry faces (De Boer and Bierman, 2006). A recent meta-analysis produced significant results from presentiment experiments (Mossbridge et al, 2012).…”

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Retro-priming, priming, and double testing: psi and replication in a testâ€“retest design

Rabeyron

2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Numerous experiments have been conducted in recent years on anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect (Bem, 2010), yet more data are needed to understand these processes precisely. For this purpose, we carried out an initial retro-priming study in which the response times of 162 participants were measured (Rabeyron and Watt, 2010). In the current paper, we present the results of a second study in which we selected those participants who demonstrated the strongest retro-priming effect during the first study, in order to see if we could replicate this effect and therefore select high scoring participants. An additional objective was to try to find correlations between psychological characteristics (anomalous experiences, mental health, mental boundaries, trauma, negative life events) and retro-priming results for the high scoring participants. The retro-priming effect was also compared with performance on a classical priming task. Twenty-eight participants returned to the laboratory for this new study. The results, for the whole group, on the retro-priming task, were negative and non-significant (es = −0.25, ns) and the results were significant on the priming task (es = 0.63, p < 0.1). We obtained overall negative effects on retro-priming results for all the sub-groups (students, male, female). Ten participants were found to have positive results on the two retro-priming studies, but no specific psychological variables were found for these participants compared to the others. Several hypotheses are considered in explaining these results, and the author provide some final thoughts concerning psi and replicability.

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Retro-priming, priming, and double testing: psi and replication in a testâ€“retest design

Rabeyron

2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…Other studies broadened the focus beyond the brain and investigated whether the human Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) could unconsciously respond to randomly selected future emotional stimuli (e.g., Spottiswoode and May, 2003;May et al, 2005). With electrophysiological measures of Skin Conductance Level (SCL) and of heart rate and blood volume, Radin (1997a;1997b; used randomly selected emotionally arousing or calming photographs to evoke an emotional response, and found a significantly greater change in electrodermal activity around five seconds before a future emotional picture than before a future calm picture.…”

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Passionate attention and the psychophysiology of entrepreneurial intuition: a quantum-holographic theory

Bradley¹

2010

IJESB

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Successful entrepreneurs are passionate, innovative risk assessors whose actions are informed by accurate intuitions about future business opportunities. Often this intuitive foreknowledge involves perception of implicit information about nonlocal objects and/or events by the body's psychophysiological systems. A large body of experimental evidence has documented intuitive foreknowledge as a scientific fact, and recent studies using electrophysiological measures of autonomic nervous system activity have shown that such nonlocal intuition is related to the degree of emotional significance of the future event. A recent pilot study has found compelling evidence of intuitive foreknowledge in repeat entrepreneurs. Drawing on these findings and the principles of quantum holography, I develop a theory of nonlocal intuition. The theory explains how passionate attention directed to the object of interest (such as a potential future business opportunity) attunes the body's psychophysiological systems to a domain of quantum-holographic information, which contains implicit information about the object's future. The body's perception of this information is experienced by the entrepreneur as an intuition.Biographical notes: A New Zealander and a social scientist, Dr. Bradley has been pioneering for more than 35 years in research dealing with the multidisciplinary application of physics, information science, neuropsychology, psychophysiology and sociology to understand fundamental multilevel processes of communication and social system function. His research has included studies on charismatic and entrepreneurial systems, experts and novices, communication and holographic social organisation, psychophysiological experiments on intuition, a quantum-holographic theory of Passionate attention and the psychophysiology of entrepreneurial intuition 325 intuition and nonlocal agency, and most recently work on the interactional signature of social groups. A graduate of the Victoria University of Wellington, he completed his doctoral studies in sociology at Columbia University, and pursued postdoctoral studies in neuropsychology and cognitive science at Stanford University. He has published six research monographs, a book, and

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“…The first experimental study was produced by Radin in 1997 and monitored heart rate, skin conductance and fingertip blood volume in subjects who were shown for five seconds a blank screen and for three seconds a randomly selected calm or emotional picture. (McDonough et al, 2002;McCratly et al, 2004;May and Vassy, 2005;Radin, 2005). 2.…”

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Collapse of the Wave Function? Pre-Stimuli Heart Rate Differences

Vannini¹,

Corpo²

2010

Neuroquantology

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Analyzing the EPR paradox, Schrödinger concluded that the problem lies in the way time is used in quantum mechanics. The Schrödinger wave equation, which was the focus of most of the discussion surrounding EPR, is not relativistically invariant and treats time in an essentially classical way. For example it assumes that there can be a well-defined "before" and "after" the collapse of the wave function. Once the wave function collapses into a particle, the event is irreversible. On the contrary, when the relativistically invariant wave equation (Klein-Gordon's equation) is taken into account, there is no collapse of the wave function. In this paper a time symmetric interpretation, proposed by the mathematician Luigi Fantappiè in 1941, is presented and four experiments which support this interpretation and challenge the Copenhagen Interpretation are discussed. In Cramer's Transactional Interpretation and in de Beauregard's Advanced-Action Interpretation the EPR paradox disappears when advanced waves are considered to be real physical entities.

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Anomalous Anticipatory Skin Conductance Response to Acoustic Stimuli: Experimental Results and Speculation About a Mechanism

Cited by 30 publications

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Retro-priming, priming, and double testing: psi and replication in a testâ€“retest design

Retro-priming, priming, and double testing: psi and replication in a testâ€“retest design

Passionate attention and the psychophysiology of entrepreneurial intuition: a quantum-holographic theory

Collapse of the Wave Function? Pre-Stimuli Heart Rate Differences

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