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Title: | An Investigation of the 'I Ching' Using the Q-Sort Method and an RNG-PK Design: II. The Effect of Reactance on Psi | Contributor(s): | Storm, Lance (author); Rock, Adam John (author) | Publication Date: | 2014 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/17072 | Abstract: | In Part 1 of a two-part study, Storm and Rock (2014) emulated a synchronistic event in the laboratory by first instructing participants to construct a representation of their cognitive/emotional states using a Q-Sort Grid (64 'I Ching' descriptor-pairs were ranked from -7 to +7), followed by the creation of an outer event using a Random Number Generator (RNG) to generate an 'I Ching' hexagram with an associated reading. Each participant generates (i) an RNG Score, (ii) Yang lines (whenever the RNG score is positive), and a Q-Sort score, drawn from the Q-Sort Grid based on the hexagram that is generated. Q-Sort scores were positive for believers in psi (i.e., sheep), whose mean RNG score was also significantly above mean chance expectation (MCE). In the present study (Part 2), we report the results of a reactance treatment (Brehm & Brehm, 1981) which is hypothesized to compromise the performance of nonbelievers in psi (i.e., goats) who, through noncompliance, are predisposed to disproving the psi hypothesis. Participants were randomly assigned to a control condition ('n' = 58) or a treatment (reactance) condition ('n' = 62). Marginally significant reactance effects were found whereby the mean Q-Sort score was lower for (i) 'reactants' compared to 'controls', and (ii) reactant goats compared to control goats. So-called 'Indecisives' (mid-range scorers on the Rasch-scaled Australian Sheep-Goat Scale-Thalbourne, 1995; Lange & Thalbourne, 2002) produced the lowest scores on all three psi measures (even lower than goats), yet mean scores on two psi measures (RNG score and Yang lines) compared to their control cohorts, and compared to reactant goats, were higher rather than lower. It is suggested that more research on indecisives is warranted since their scoring patterns appear to be unpredictable, and may even contradict the conventional 'linear' understanding of the sheep-goat effect. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Australian Journal of Parapsychology, 14(2), p. 163-189 | Publisher: | Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research Inc | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 1445-2308 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 520599 Social and personality psychology not elsewhere classified | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970117 Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280121 Expanding knowledge in psychology | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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