Research Program / Claims / emotions-6

Emotions are highly involved in precognition procedures: individuals can perceive information meaningful to themselves, and 'importance' attracts information like a magnet.

情绪高度参与预知程序：个体能感知到对自己有意义的信息，“重要性”会像磁铁一样吸引信息到来。

Concept emotions · Domain Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation · mechanism · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status contested · ★ fundable

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Seth sources (book §session)
Adjudicating experiment
Five to ten laboratories recruit approximately 3000 participants, each performing 200 two-alternative forced-choice trials. After answers are locked, targets are generated randomly by an independent server. Personal importance of future outcomes is manipulated in advance, such as participant-valued rewards versus value-matched neutral outcomes, and emotional arousal and confidence are measured. The pre-registered primary test is the importance × above-chance hit rate interaction, using participant-level hierarchical models, real-time unalterable logs, and automated program audits. The study period is 12–18 months, and key results require independent replication.
Suggested paper title
Personal Relevance and Prediction of Subsequently Randomized Outcomes: A Preregistered Multilaboratory Study
What it would overturn
If stable prediction of independently generated random outcomes after response locking is demonstrated after excluding information leakage, this would overturn the null hypothesis that there is no exploitable information association between behavioral records and future independent random targets.
Candidate labs / funders
Zoltan Kekecs，Eötvös Loránd University，Transparent Psi Project; Jan Walleczek，Phenoscience Laboratories; Stefan Schmidt，University of Freiburg; Marc Wittmann，Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health
Specificity of Seth's formulation
Priority effects of important information on attention and memory are existing hypotheses; the distinguishable prediction would be that importance increases prediction accuracy for yet-to-be-generated information, but the original statement does not provide effect sizes or a definition of importance.
Note
Contested does not mean the evidence is evenly balanced: stricter replications currently do not support reliable precognition, and general emotional stimuli are not the same as information meaningful to an individual. [Transparent project correction notice](https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/258785328/kekecs-et-al-2023-correction-to-raising-the-value-of-research-studies-in-psychological-science-by-increasing-the.pdf)
Evidence (3, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim emotions-6, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/emotions-6