Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect

Daryl J. Bem is a social psychologist, and this article, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, reports nine experiments Bem interpreted as evidence for precognition, the anomalous influence of a future event on present cognition. Its strength as a source is exactly what makes it significant, it passed peer review at a mainstream psychology journal, which is precisely why it became a landmark case that helped trigger the psychology field's replication crisis. Its limit is now well documented, subsequent large-scale replication attempts largely failed to reproduce Bem's results, and the episode is now widely cited as an example of how flexible statistical analysis can produce a false positive, so this source should be cited for what it claimed and its historical role, not as evidence precognition is real.