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CONSENT TO PARTICIPATE IN A PROPOSED STUDY OF
Enhancing Anomalous Cognition of Binary Targets
You are invited to participate in research intended to enhance anomalous cognition (AC), if it occurs, of binary (i.e.,
the numbers one or zero) targets. The experiment is conducted with a computer that randomly selects a binary
number, which is the target for the trial.
It then rapidly oscillates a test number between one and zero. You press a
button when you feel that the test number matches the target.
If you accept this invitation, you will be asked to participate in two, 30-minute sessions per week over a period of five
months beginning in January 1992. During a session, you will press the button no faster than one every few seconds,
and there will be two or three minute rest periods approximately every five minutes. All sessions will be conducted
in the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory in Menlo Park, California. You and the principal investigator (PI) will deter-
mine the exact schedule with considerable flexible.
At the end of each trial, the computer will display the current and accumulated results. This will be your feedback
for the trial.
At the end of each session, you will send your written and drawn impressions of the target material by facsimile to
the PI. He will send to you, by return overnight mail, a copy of the target material (i.e., either a photograph or a
video tape) and an addressed envelope so that you can mail the material back the same day.
This will be your feed-
back for the trial.
At the conclusion of the study, you will be told the details of the analysis, the statistical outcome of your contribu-
tion, and the overall outcome of the experiment. At all times, the confidentiality ofyour participation in this experi-
ment will be protected.
Your name will not be used.
Reference to you in records of this experiment and in any
published results will be coded or in consolidated form.
Similar research in other laboratories has shown that no health risks are involved in participating in this type of
experiment. This field of research, however, is deemed by some to have no scientific foundation. Some friends or
colleagues, therefore, may consider your participation to indicate a belief in the occult or paranormal. While, to the
knowledge of the investigators, no one has suffered career damage from participating in scientific research of the
type we are proposing, you should realize that your credibility with some persons might be damaged if you should
chose to reveal your participation in this experiment.
In addition, there is no reason to believe that, having participated in studies such as this you will be able to use your
abilities for specific personal gain. Occasionally, participants come to believe that they possess the capacity to use
so-called psychic skills for personal profit in risk-taking situations (e.g., participating in games of chance or specula-
tive investments). Some individuals who have participated in experiments of this kind have acted on such assump-
tions to their apparent disadvantage. Thus, the risk exists that you may come to believe that you have a skill that you
may not possess. You are advised of this risk and warned that you assume responsibility for any assumptions which
you make about your personal skills or capabilities.
Emergency medical care is available if the need arises during your participation in this study at the SAIC facilities in
Menlo Park, California. However, no additional medical care or compensation is offered to participants in the ex-
periment. For emergency medical assistance at the SAIC facilities in Menlo Park, California, we will call the Urgent
Care Center of Palo Alto Medical Foundation at (415) 853-2959 and explain the nature of the emergency and take
appropriate action.
If this explanation leaves you with any unanswered questions, please ask and obtain answers satisfactory to you
before signing below.
Ifyou have questions later, please cal Dr. Edwin C. May at (415) 325-8292. An SAIC Institu-
1010 El Camino Real, Suite 330, P.O. Box 1412, Menlo Park, CA 94025
• (415) 325-8292
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