Ouija board experiments

[Nicky]

Hi learned folk

Could anyone point me in the direction of research / experiments that have been conducted into ouija boards?

Ta in advance :)

N

[dalriada]

Some randomy refs- also check out google for the ideomotor effect (which I'm sure you already know about).
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Apparent Mental Causation, Sources of the Experience of Will
http://m0134.fmg.uva.nl/edu/Consc_NonConsc_processes/Wegner.docDM Wegner, T Wheatley - American Psychologist, 1999

Ouija Board, Are There Any Communications? Agency, Ontotheology, and the Death of the Humanist Subject C Lundberg, J Gunn - Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 2005

U.S. Adolescent Religious Identity, the Media, and the "Funky" Side of Religion Lynn Schofield Clark Journal of Communication 2002 52:4 794

Can Occult Practices Lead to Psychiatric Illness and Related Problems? J Ankerberg, J Weldon
http://www.johnankerberg.com/Articles/_PDFArchives/new-age/NA2W0705.pdf

The mind’s best trick: how we experience conscious will
DM Wegner - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2003 65-69(5)

A Mail Survey of Ouija Board Users in North America. J Palmer - The Journal of Parapsychology, 1999.

Why the Ouija Board Seemed to Take on a Personality
The Effect of Ritual Action on Evaluation of Credibility in Divination
Anders Lisdorf http://www.csr-arc.com/files/10/ARC-9-Why%20the%20ouija%20board%20seemed%20to%20take%20o n%20a%20personality.doc

[FarSideOfTheMoon]

Try searching for Ouija + blindfold on google ;)

[Zaira]

I wrote this one, my usser name was Ashley while I took part on that site. I got a bit fed up in the end with my posts being edited.

I'm such a kid sometimes. lol

http://www.wikihow.com/Solve-the-Ouija-Board-Mystery

This one too and a few others.

http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Ouija-Board


http://www.wikihow.com/User:Ashly

[Jocky]

Here's an interesting example of how not to do it! (http://assap.org/newsite/Docs/ouija.pdf)

[median]

Try searching for Ouija + blindfold on google

Alternatively, get six of you huddled around your computer screen. Now get everyone to lay a finger lightly on the mouse and......
;D

[MRT]

Interestingly, it has recently been shown in research that if two or more people push a mouse together (or a glass, I would guess), none is consciously aware of who is pushing it! This isn't just a psychological thing, it's the way our nerves are wired. Hence the often heard claim that 'no one was pushing it' .. and yet it moved!

[Zaira]

I think the term you are looking for is ‘involuntary movement’.

[Jocky]

Or Ideomotor Action (http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/ideomotor.html)

[Zaira]

Could be.