Editing Parapsychology (section)

====Direct mental interactions with living systems====
Formerly called bio-PK, "direct mental interactions with living systems" (DMILS) studies the effects of one person's intentions on a distant person's [[psychophysiological]] state.<ref name="pmid15142304" /> One type of DMILS experiment looks at the commonly reported "feeling of being stared at". The "starer" and the "staree" are isolated in different locations, and the starer is periodically asked to simply gaze at the staree via closed-circuit video links. Meanwhile, the staree's nervous system activity is automatically and continuously monitored.

Parapsychologists have interpreted the cumulative data on this and similar DMILS experiments to suggest that one person's attention directed towards a remote, isolated person can significantly activate or calm that person's [[nervous system]]. In a meta-analysis of these experiments published in the ''British Journal of Psychology'' in 2004, researchers found a small but significant overall DMILS effect. However, the study also found that the effect size was insignificant when a small number of the highest-quality studies from one laboratory were analyzed. The authors concluded that although the existence of some anomaly related to distant intentions cannot be ruled out, there was also a shortage of independent replications and theoretical concepts.<ref name="pmid15142304">{{Cite journal|author1=Schmidt, S. |author2=Schneider, R. |author3=Utts, J. |author4=Walach, H. |title=Distant intentionality and the feeling of being stared at: two meta-analyses |journal=British Journal of Psychology |volume=95 |issue=Pt 2 |pages=235–247 |year=2004 |pmid=15142304 |doi=10.1348/000712604773952449}}</ref>