The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research
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The data of 10 series of forced-choice experiments involving a variety of psi tasks and six high-scoring subjects were examined for nonrandomness in the within-run grouping of their hits. For two subjects, grouping analyses were also made of parallel visual series in which they tried to identify briefly-displayed slides of the same targets used in the psi tasks. Five of the six subjects showed significant evidence of nonrandom grouping in their psi data. In four cases the effect took the form of an excess of long clusters of hits, while the remaining case showed signifi cant isolation of hits. Grouping effects were also observed in both visual series, of a form and magnitude comparable to those of the parallel psi series. The grouping effects in the psi data appear not to arise from external parameters such as type of task, trial rate, feedback regime, etc., but rather to reflect individu ally patterned tendencies toward transient establishment of conditions favorable for successful psi response. These effects accounted for much of the evidence for psi in the experiments in which they occurred, and in some cases appear to have been · reflected in the subjects' physiological measures, their subjective states, or both. Implications of these findings for further work on psi-favorable states are sketched.
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