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posted on 2022-03-07, 00:02 authored by Marco ZdrenkaThe results found in parapsychological research have not been
particularly persuasive, in large part due to a lack of replicability of
those studies purporting evidence in support of the existence of psi
phenomena. I propose that a more promising avenue of research into psi
focuses on the potential correlates of psi performance (i.e. factors
that correlate with above- or below-chance performance on luck-based
tasks without any known causal mechanism). Specifically, individual
differences, such as belief in ESP or extraversion, have been shown to
correlate with psi performance in forced- choice precognition
experiments (where participants predict a future chance- event by
choosing one option from a limited number of options). Thus, the goal of
this thesis was to synthesise existing literature on predictors of psi
performance, to identify the best predictors of psi performance, and to
test these predictors using the latest experimental paradigms while also
examining its external validity in the real world.