How developed is your sixth sense?

Maybe you've handed a Diet Pepsi to an acquaintance and had him or her respond, "Wow! How did you know I wanted a soda? You must have ESP!" Or maybe you dreamed last night that you would go to this Web page and find a quiz to determine whether or not you had psi powers. Either way, let's find out whether you have the so-called sixth sense. Here goes.

If you're able to envision things that are too far away to be perceived by the human eye, what power do you have?

remote viewing

mindsight

social cognition

You chose: You chose:

If you have the power of remote viewing, you're able to see things that are too far away to be seen with the human eye.

Psychic people often have which personality type?

serious-minded

warm and sociable

critical

You chose: You chose:

A 1971 study, published in the Journal of Parapsychology, found that subjects who scored well on tests of psi ability tended to be warm and sociable people.

A person with psychic abilities might have which of these jobs on his or her resume?

professional gambler

stock market analyst

test subject in Project Stargate

You chose: You chose:

Project Stargate was one of the names of the U.S. government's secret efforts during the Cold War to identify and utilize agents with extrasensory abilities.

If you possess the power of psychokinesis, what are you able to do?

move objects by thinking about them

change the color of objects by looking at them

remember where objects used to be located

You chose: You chose:

Psychokinesis is the ability to move objects by thinking about them.

In a recently published study on precognition by retired Cornell University psychology professor Daryl Bem, how often did subjects correctly pick which of two curtains concealed a picture?

53.1 percent

72 percent

94.3 percent

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In the experiment, subjects picked the correct curtain 53.1 percent of the time compared to the expected 50 percent, which Bem concluded was statistically significant evidence of precognition.

You have the power of equilibrioception. How many other people have it?

1 in 10 million

1 in 1,000

just about everybody

You chose: You chose:

Equilibrioception is the sense of balance, which just about every human on the planet possesses.

What is empathic accuracy?

the ability to read a person's mind based on body language and words

the ability to speak to the dead

the ability to predict what a person will say next

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Empathic accuracy, or mindsight, is the ability to guess what's going on in a person's mind based on that person's body language and words.

True or false: Women are always more intuitive than men?

true

false

You chose: You chose:

According to a series of studies cited in Psychology Today, average women aren't naturally better empathic readers than men. They just try harder because they want to live up to the stereotype of "women's intuition."

When you have a gut feeling about something and make a decision based on that gut feeling, what have you just based your decision on?

other people's body language

your past experiences

dreams

You chose: You chose:

If you have a gut feeling about something, that feeling is based on past experiences and your knowledge of how those experiences panned out.

And the ultimate test of your psychic abilities ... The person writing this quiz is wearing a T-shirt with whose picture on it?

Gumby

Domo

Godzilla

You chose: You chose:

If you answered Domo, the big-mouthed Japanese TV mascot who is described as "a strange creature that hatched from an egg," you might have a sixth sense!

Correct

Stay away from the dog track.

Correct

Not bad.

Correct

You were the inspiration for Haley Joel Osment's character in "The Sixth Sense."

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