title: Failing the future: three unsuccessful attempts to replicate Bem's 'retroactive facilitation of recall' effect.
abstract: Nine recently reported parapsychological experiments appear to support the existence of precognition. We describe three pre-registered independent attempts to exactly replicate one of these experiments, 'retroactive facilitation of recall', which examines whether performance on a memory test can be influenced by a post-test exercise. All three replication attempts failed to produce significant effects (combined n = 150; combined p = .83, one-tailed) and thus do not support the existence of psychic ability.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. stuartjritchie1@gmail.com
authors.forename: Stuart J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Ritchie
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wiseman
authors.forename: Christopher C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: French
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D055815:Young Adult