Author Archives: Caroline Watt

Here’s the poster for the forthcoming SPR conference, which is in Newcastle (UK) 21-23 September. There will be two papers reporting latest KPU work (precognition research using the ganzfeld method, and studies replicating Walach and von Lucadou’s Correlation Matrix Method). … Continue reading →

I don’t think I’ve ever given a lecture in front of family and friends as well as academic colleagues and the general public. So it is with more nerves than usual that I announce my inaugural Professorial lecture in Edinburgh … Continue reading →

Next week the 12th Bial Foundation Symposium takes place in Oporto, on the theme of Enhancing the Mind. The Symposium has three sessions of invited speakers. The first session is on the topic of Cognitive Enhancement, and has presentations from … Continue reading →

In September 2008 I launched the KPU’s online parapsychology course. It continues to run twice per year (beginning April and September), and is designed to give a balanced introduction to the field of parapsychology. It does this partly through providing … Continue reading →

  Karl Popper used the black swan as a simple example of how to falsify the hypothesis that all swans are white. But how do psychologists falsify hypotheses about more complex human abilities and behaviour? Jim Kennedy has just posted … Continue reading →

Many of you will have heard about ‘Project Alpha’, which was the brainchild of James Randi (pictured). In the late 1970s the aviation pioneer James McDonnell granted $500,000 to the University of Washington to set up a parapsychology laboratory. The … Continue reading →

This weekend, I hope to visit Oslo for the first time, as an invited speaker for a conference to celebrate the centenary of the Norsk Parapsykologisk Selskap (I think that roughly translates as Norwegian Parapsychological Society.) Other speakers include Dr … Continue reading →

Who is Psychology’s Greatest Hero? A few days ago, I sparred with my Psychology dept colleagues Dr Stuart Ritchie and Dr Thomas Bak in a fun event at Edinburgh Science Festival. We each had 12 minutes to make a pitch … Continue reading →

Prof Etzel Cardena, of Lund University, kindly invited me to contribute to a symposium on anomalous experiences at the International Convention of Psychological Science meeting in Vienna.  ICYMI here is a wee preview of our symposium and my presentation. Title: … Continue reading →

Are you interested in the science behind table-tilting, near-death experiences and ghostly sightings? What is the surprising link between a telepathic experience and one of the greatest breakthroughs in neuroscience? I’m very excited to be speaking about this, and much … Continue reading →