TARGET AND SENDER DEPENDENCIES IN ANOMALOUS COGNITION EXPERIMENTS

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TARGET AND SENDER DEPENDENCIES IN
ANOMALOUS COGNITION EXPERIMENTS
ABSTRACT: The ganzfeld experiments as summarized by Bern and Honorton (1994)
suggest that using dynamic targets produces stronger results than using static ones. Berry
and Honorton, however, only analyzed ganzfeld studies that included the use of a sender.
Because a sender is not a necessary requirement in forced-choice trials, we designed and
carried out a study to see if a sender is required in nonganzfeld, free-response trials. In the
first of two experiments, five experienced receivers participated in 40 trials each, 10 in
each condition of a 2x2 design to explore sender and target type. We observed significant
effects for static targets (exact sum-of-rank probability of p < .0073, effect size = 0.248, n
= 100), chance results for dynamic targets (p