Daryl Bem, a psychologist and professor at Cornell University, describes nine classical experiments in psychology[1], conducted in a time-reverse mode so as to obtain the effects before rather than after the stimulus. For example, in a priming experiment, the subject is asked to judge whether the image is positive (pleasant) or negative (unpleasant) by pressing a button as quickly as possible. The reaction time is recorded. Just before the positive or negative image a word is presented briefly, below the threshold (at a speed which is not perceptibly at the conscious level). This word is called “prime” and it has been observed that subjects tend to respond more quickly when the former is congruent with the image that follows (whether it is a positive image or a negative image), while reactions become longer when they are not congruent (for example, the word is positive while the image is negative). In retro-priming experiments, the usual stimulus procedure occurs later, rather than before the subject response, based on the hypothesis that this “inverse” procedure can influence retrocausally the responses. Experiments were conducted on more than 1,000 subjects, and they showed retrocausal effects with statistical significance of p=1,34/10¹¹ (one possibility among 134,000,000,000 to be mistaken when stating the existence of the retrocausal effect).

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[1] Bem D (2011), Feeling the future: Experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Jan 31, 2011.