O 1997 Society for Scientific Exploration Unconscious Perception of Future Emotions:

Abstract- Is consciousness limited to perception of the sensory present and memory of the past, or does it also have access to future information? In an experiment designed to explore this question, a computer was used to ran-domly select and present target photos from a pool of digitized photographs. Some targets labeled "calm " included landscapes and cheerful people; other targets labeled "extreme " included violent and erotic topics. Heart rate, blood volume, and electrodermal activity were recorded before, during and after presentation of the target photo to see whether the body would unconscious-ly respond differentially to the two types of future targets. Extreme targets were expected to produce classical orienting responses after the targets were displayed, and a "presentiment " (future feeling) effect was predicted to pro-duce orienting pre-sponses before the pictures were displayed. Calm targets were expected to cause no unusual responses before or after the target was displayed. Four experiments, involving 3 1 participants who viewed a total of 1,060 target photos, showed the expected orienting response after the target photo was displayed. In accordance with a presentiment hypothesis, there was a clear orienting pre-sponse that peaked with a four standard error differ-ence in physiological measures between extreme and calm targets one second before the target photo was displayed