Title
Emotion and Intuition
Experimenter
Mark 208 Bakker
Context
Student (stage)-project University of Amsterdam. Supervisor: Prof. Bierman
Period
February 97- March 97
Psi phenomenon
Precognition
Dependent Vars
Electro dermal activity (GSR), response times
Number of Ss
16
Description
The experiment is a conceptual replication of Radin's presentiment study using within session different ratio's of extreme vs calm pictures and two different exposure times. Furthermore there is a classification task superimposed on the pictures. Interference of task performance with emotional valence is studied as a main stream psychological phenomenon while simultaneously the presponse is studied. Odd trials have an abstract (dot pattern) picture as background and are used as an intrinsic control condition.
Hypothesis
1. Response times in the classification task differe for emotional and non-emotional backgrounds. This will be stronger in the short exposure (suboptimal) condition. 2. Presponse (GSR) is larger for extreme than for calm or neutral pictures. Explorations: 1. response amplitude as a function of exposure time. 2. qualitative differences for different types of emotional material (erotic and violent)