Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at.

Rupert Sheldrake (born 28 June 1942) is an English biochemist and author. Sheldrake's publications include A New Science of Life (1981) Seven Experiments That Could Change the World (1994) Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home (1999) The Sense of Being Stared At (2003) and The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (2012). He is known for having proposed a non-standard account of morphogenesis and for his research into parapsychology.