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

Record summary

Daryl Bem’s 2011 paper reported nine experiments suggesting that future events could influence present responses, including erotic priming and precognition-like memory tasks. The article became a major reference point in debates about psi methodology, publication bias, optional stopping and statistical significance. Subsequent direct and conceptual replications produced mixed or null results, and the paper is now commonly discussed alongside the replication crisis rather than as settled evidence of precognition. Its exact procedures and statistical choices are readily traceable in the original article and later critiques.