Second Report on the Psi Experiments with Paired Quadruplet Associates*

Shigeki HAGIO
Kagoshima-Keizai University, Japan

ABSTRACT

Twenty subjects, individually tested, in each of two experiments tried to guess a target from four reaction words to a stimulus word, completing a run of 43 PQAs (PQA:Paired Quadruplet Associates). Each experiment had a control series in which participants had no psi task and had only to say a word as a favorite or a habitual association. In the Experiment I the subjects obtained 233.7 hits with a deviation of +18.7, but not significant (CR=1.4, P<.17). However, a subject obtained a highly significant score of 20 as opposed to MCE of 10.75 ( CR=3.25, P<.002, though not corrected for selection). In Experiment II, the deviation was +10.7, again not significant but in a positive direction. All the controls got a score close to MCE. Before the experiment the data base of the PQA was enlarged by adding 377 samples in 1993/94 classes to the earlier. The obtained scores were corrected by a formula to adjust them for the associational loads of the words
to be selected.

Key words: psi in the associative process, low association value, PQA (Paired Quadruplet Associates), forced choice method