Have you ever known who was calling you before looking?

[HWahbeh]

Many people worldwide have had the experience of knowing who will call them before it happens. This is called telephone telepathy.

Can you and two friends or family members be available to answer your phone
twice a day for 6 days for 30 seconds?

This will help us learn about telephone telepathy.

If you participate, you and your group will receive up to 5 calls per day until you complete 2 trials per day.

A trial is when ALL 3 PEOPLE answer the phone for a 1-minute call LEARN MORE.

The study will end when you complete 12 calls.

Groups will receive $240 for completing all 12 trials.

To be eligible for the study, you need to:
• Be an adult aged 18 years and older
• Own a smartphone that you use for your phone calls
• Speak English fluently
• Have two friends or family members participate with you

Go to http://www.teletele.org to learn more.

The study is being conducted by Helané Wahbeh, ND, MCR at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and is approved by the Institute of Noetic Science Institutional Review Board.

• This topic was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by Annalisa Ventola.
• This topic was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by Annalisa Ventola.
• This topic was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by Annalisa Ventola.

[HWahbeh]

Thanks everyone, this study is now complete and the results under peer review! 🙂

[DMJessup]

The usual lack of follow-up.

Who’s Calling? Evaluating the Accuracy of Guessing Who Is on the Phone

Some people claim to occasionally know who is calling them without using traditional means. Controlled experiments testing these claims report mixed results. We conducted a cross-sectional study of triads examining the accuracy of knowing who was calling using two randomly selected designs: 1) a web server randomly chose the caller before the callee’s guess (telepathic/pre-selected trials), and 2) a web server randomly chose the caller after the callee’s guess (precognitive/post-selected trials). We also performed exploratory multilevel mixed-effects logistic regressions on the relationship of genetic relationships, emotional closeness, communication frequency, and physical distance data with accuracy. A total of 177 participants completed at least one trial (105 “completers” completed all 12 trials). Accuracy was significantly above chance for the 210 completers telepathic/pre-selected trials (50.0% where the chance expectation was 33.3%, p<.001) but not the 630 completers precognitive/post-selected trials (31.9% where the chance expectation was 33.3%, p = .61). We discuss how these results favor the psi hypothesis, although conventional explanations cannot be completely excluded. Genetic relatedness significantly predicted accuracy in the regression model (Wald χ2 = 53.0, P < .001) for all trials. Compared to 0% genetic relatedness, the odds of accurately identifying the caller was 2.88 times (188%) higher for 25% genetic relatedness (Grandparent/Grandchild or Aunt/Uncle or Niece/Nephew or Half Sibling; 𝛽 = 1.06, z = 2.10, P = .04), but the other genetic relatedness levels were not significant. In addition, communication frequency was significant (𝛽 = 0.006, z = 2.19, P = .03) but physical distance (𝛽 = 0.0002, z = 1.56, P = .12) and emotional closeness (𝛽 = 0.005, z = 1.87, P = .06) were not for all trials. To facilitate study recruitment and completion, unavoidable changes due to persistent recruit difficulties to the protocol were made during the study, including changing inclusion/exclusion criteria, increasing total call attempts to participants, adjusting trial type randomization schema to ensure trial type balance, and participant compensation. Thus, future research will be needed to continue to improve the methodology and examine the mechanism by which people claim to know who is calling, as well as factors that may moderate the effects.

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