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Name: Gyang Ganan Andrew Enrolment number: 044158862 The sheep-goat effect A study on how extra-sensory perception belief affects repetition avoidance Abstract Previous research has shown that there is a difference between people who believe in extra-sensory perception (ESP) and people who do not in tasks that include probability judgement, illusion of control and repetition avoidance. An experiment by Brugger et al (1990) has shown that belief in extra-sensory perception has influence on people's generation of random number sequences in that people who believe in ESP (sheep) are more likely to avoid repetitions than strong disbelievers in ESP (goats). The experiment asked subjects to generate a sequence of random dice throws and make this indistinguishable from that of a real dice as possible. The following experiment is a replication of Brugger's (1990) repetition avoidance study. It was hypothesized that sheep will be more likely to avoid repetitions than goats. The results of this study show that there...

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