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Peter Lush

@peterlush.bsky.social

Researcher at University of Sussex working on imaginative suggestion, demand characteristics and phenomenological control.

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Peter Lush @peterlush.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Now accepted at PCI Registered Reports, with @zoltandienes.bsky.social: "Mesmer’s error: Beliefs reverse the rubber hand illusion". A causal test of competing theories of the RHI. Final manuscript: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Abstract of paper at https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/harqd_v9

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Peter Lush @peterlush.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

“Mesmer’s Error: Beliefs Reverse the Rubber Hand Illusion (Registered Report)” w/@zoltandienes.bsky.social. Suggestion can reverse classic body ownership illusion effects (greater effect for async control). Multisensory synchrony is neither necessary nor sufficient for the illusion. bit.ly/4wvHeUy

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Peter Lush @peterlush.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

"How participants create illusory experiences to help experimenters." A new preprint of a multi-study manuscript w/ @zoltandienes.bsky.social, @anilseth.bsky.social & Ryan Scott, extending previous work on demand characteristics & phenomenological control in psychological effects. osf.io/n2ukj

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