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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 8, No. 2, 233-238 (1982)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167282082008
© 1982 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

The Sequence of Outcomes and ESP

More Evidence for a Primacy Effect

Sanford Zenker

Trenton State College

Robert C. Leslie

State University of New York-Oneonta

Ellen Port

State University of New York-Oneonta

Joan Kosloff

State University of New York-Oneonta

Subjects with three different beliefs regarding ESP experienced an ascending, descending, or random sequence of outcomes at an ESP task. Subjects in the descending condition recalled more past success and predicted greater future success for themselves than did those in the ascending or random condition. Believers in ESP attributed outcomes more to sender's effort and ability and less to luck than those skeptical about ESP. Results were discussed in terms of the relative - salience of cues used for performance estimates and attributions of causality.


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