Telepathy, prophecy, clairvoyance, precognition ... all these concepts hint at knowledge or discovery of the future. The possibility of "guessing" coming events has always been, and is, an enigma and a desire for the human race. Because of all this are the numerous historical documents, film libraries ( Back to the Future) and novels ( The Time Machine) that address this issue.
Today, thanks to advances in science, research on these phenomena are more effective. An example is the study by Daryl Bem , a psychologist at Cornell University (New York), which states the possible evidence that the future can be known and that the events occurred can not influence the behavior of human.
Bem has researched this issue for eight years, which has conducted nine experiments to 1,000 student volunteers.
In one of these experiments, showed his "guinea pigs" a list of words and asked to recall those that might. Later, students had to draw up a list of words that had memorized while a computer did the same at random. The experiment is surprising that the vast majority of words in the lists of volunteers matched those he had chosen the software.
Another experiment showed was that a computer screen which featured an image with two curtains, and were told they had to guess what was hidden erotic position. This study was repeated 36 times for each individual (the placement of the image was random) and consisted of 100 sessions, in which, 53% of students chose the correct shade (for the pure chance is expected to 50%) .
In the third study, the psychologist, spent the test in which a word is displayed first (usually "ugly" or "beautiful") and then a picture unpleasant or pleasant, with a view that the individual decides whether the photograph is "ugly" or "pretty" (in many cases are "flashed" with a word something that was otherwise so that the person will cost you to decide). Well, what he did was teach Bem first photo and then thought to ask what word would appear (again, was chosen by chance.)
In this experiment, Bem did observe evidence of psi (paranormal phenomena, by which the individual has the ability to acquire information through senses other than those already known - "sixth sense "-).
However, like everything related to parapsychology, this issue is very controversial. On the one hand, it is to publish an article with the results of this experiment in the journal Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , supported by the head of the editorial, Charles Judd. But on the other hand, this study has not convinced many scientists, Joachim Krueger and psychologist who has dismissed as "ridiculous."
If you are interested in this subject and I want to continue to report, there is a blog that posted a very interesting entry on precognition and its origins. It presents several interesting anecdotes. The blog is called cosmic Island and you can see the entry by clicking HERE.
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