No evidence for Retrocausation in Two Classic Cuing Paradigms

Jordan J. Wehrman

SAGE Open, 2019, vol. 9, issue 2, 2158244019855852

Abstract: Retrocausation describes how an event that happens in the future may affect the present. For example, determining the state of an entangled particle in the future can determine the state of an entangled particle in the present. Recently, this phenomenon has been reported in the psychological literature, with several studies reporting that events which have yet to happen affect performance in various tasks. In this article, two classical manipulations of expectation from the psychological literature, endogenous and exogenous cueing, have been used to explore retrocausal effects on reaction speeds. The findings demonstrate no effect of retrocausation, supported by both frequentist and Bayesian statistical analysis. This is an important finding from two perspectives. First, it may indicate a limiting condition of retrocausal effects. Alternatively, it may contribute to research demonstrating a lack of retrocausation.

Keywords: parapsychology; retrocausation; Posner; cuing; reaction time (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/2158244019855852

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