The Stanford psychokinesis experiment

Record summary

In 1979, physicist William A. Cox and colleagues at Stanford reported experiments in which participants allegedly influenced the movement of small objects or physical systems through intention. The work belongs to a period when parapsychology sought laboratory measures for psychokinesis and overlaps conceptually with occult claims about will and magical action. It may provide a comparison point for replication, statistical inference, and experimental safeguards. The experiment is identifiable in parapsychology literature, but its implications were limited and later researchers criticized methodological and publication practices in the field.