Does Psi Exist? Replicable Evidence for an Anomalous Process of Information Transfer, by Daryl Bem and Charles Honorton, published in Psychological Bulletin in 1994, is a peer-reviewed meta-analysis of ganzfeld telepathy studies arguing the pooled results showed a small but statistically significant and, the authors argued, replicable effect. As a peer-reviewed article in a major psychology journal it is the correct source for what that particular meta-analysis actually found and argued. Its limit is substantial: the ganzfeld effect it reports has not been reproduced to the field's satisfaction in later, more rigorously pre-registered replications, and Bem's own later psi research became a central example in psychology's replication crisis, so this article's conclusion should be presented as a contested claim from the parapsychological literature, not as an established finding.
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Published in Psychological Bulletin in 1994, a peer reviewed meta-analysis in a major psychology journal, treated at the top tier for what the venue and method establish, though the effect it reports has not held up under later, more rigorous replication, which the atom's own value states. NotesDaryl Bem and Charles Honorton's peer-reviewed meta-analysis arguing for replicable evidence of an anomalous process of information transfer (psi) in ganzfeld studies.
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AuthorDaryl J. Bem and Charles Honorton
PublisherPsychological Bulletin
Publication Year1994
Source Typepeer-reviewed article
Claims Backed By This Source (23 claims)
This source backs 23 claims across the atlas. As facts: 11 well-attested, 3 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 5 holds. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Studies, 6 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Historical Figures, 5 claims: 2 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 2 general references.
- Articles, 3 claims: 3 well-attested.
- Psi Phenomena, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
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