Remote Mental Influence of Electrodermal Activity
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Can one person calm or activate another's body just by thinking about it — from a separate room? That's what William Braud tested across 15 experiments at the Mind Science Foundation. A subject sat in a shielded room while an influencer 20 meters away tried to mentally calm or activate them during randomly timed 30-second windows. The subject had no clue when influence was happening. The measure was electrodermal activity — tiny changes in skin conductance reflecting nervous system arousal. With 323 sessions and 271 ordinary community volunteers (not specially selected psychics), the results were striking. Thirteen of 15 experiments pointed in the predicted direction, and 6 were individually significant — 40% versus the 5% expected by chance. Combined, the odds against chance were about 43,000 to 1, with an effect size comparable to accepted findings in mainstream medicine. That unselected people produced these results suggests this might be widely shared. This paper became a cornerstone for later meta-analyses of distant mental influence.
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📋 Cite this paper
Braud, William G (1993). Remote Mental Influence of Electrodermal Activity. Journal of Indian Psychology.
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title = {Remote Mental Influence of Electrodermal Activity},
author = {Braud, William G},
year = {1993},
journal = {Journal of Indian Psychology},
}