Is the 'Sense of Being Stared At' an Artefact of Response Bias?

Despite a few notable exceptions (e.g., Radin, 2004), the issue of response bias has been ignored in studies investigating the sense of being stared at. In one recent 'sense of being stared at' study, Ferris and Rock (2009) synthesised Ganzfeld and remote staring methodologies and reported various significant results concerning stare and no-stare hit rates. The aim of the present study was to use Ferris and Rock's dataset to examine the potential issue of response bias associated with their receivers' stare and no-stare guesses. The response bias corrected results presented in this paper are evaluated in light of Ferris and Rock's initial findings.