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SCOPAESTHESIA

Garlito-Barrionuevo, M* and Fernández-Mármol, M*

*(IES Galileo Galilei, Dos Hermanas, Sevilla)

• ABSTRACT: 

The Scopaesthesia is a Psychic staring effect in which humans are able to feel when someone is staring at them even when they can´t see that person.

• INTRODUCTION:

This idea was first studied by psychologist Edward B. Titchener in 1898 when his students reported being able to feel whenever someone was looking at them. In view of this possibility, Titchener decided to test this hypothesis. After a series of experiments, he only found negative results. He instead suggested that when a subject experienced the feeling that they were being watched and turned to check, a second person who already had the subject in their field of vision might notice the subject starting to turn their head.
Years later, Ruper Sheldrake, made some more experiments and reported subjects exhibiting a weak sense of being stared at, but no sense of not being stared at.

• METHODOLOGY:

To check wheter this phenomenon is true or not, we carried out an experiment in which, in pairs, one person looked at any point and another person stared at their back checking if they could sense or not the feeling of being looked at. 

• RESULTS:

We subjected 24 individuals to a total of 240 tries.

GIRLS

Right answers: 51 

Wrong answers: 49

BOYS:

Right answers: 72

Wrong answers: 68

GLOBAL

Right answers: 123

Wrong answers: 117

• CONCLUSIONS:

Based on the results, we can clearly tell that the percentage in every case is almost the same. Consequently, this phenomenon is caused by chance.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

We want to thank the scientific culture´s students for volunteering at making this experiment. We also want to thank Holguin A. for guiding us on how to do our first paper.