Reviewed 24 October 2026. One substantive scope upgrade, with an already reviewed child-comparison study retained as context. No new research discovery or replication claimed.
Thirteen regression-therapy clients were compared with 13 approximately matched controls. Clients reported no previous-life memories before therapy. They showed a larger false-fame effect (Cohen’s d=.82, p=.034); famous-name recognition was nonsignificantly different. Distress and recruitment differed between groups. Assignment was observational, so therapy effects and pre-existing differences cannot be separated. Small samples, multiple analyses and laboratory-to-autobiographical transfer limit inference; confidence intervals, preregistration and blinding remain unverified.
Reading upgrade: main methods, results, discussion and funding text in an eight-page author-hosted PDF; graph pixels and raw data not reviewed. Prior ledger r74 used abstracts/indexed excerpts. Funding: NWO 452-02-006; conflicts not verified. Relevance 4/5; provisional quality 3/5; confidence moderate. This supports a competing source-monitoring account, without establishing the origin of any particular claimed memory.
The publisher abstract describes 27 child pairs, better school performance and no higher measured suggestibility among children reporting previous lives, alongside more behavioural and dissociative features. This was already assessed in the corpus ledger on 23 September 2026; its summary is retained only to constrain the adult-study interpretation, not counted as another addition. Full text remains restricted. Matching, blinding, multiplicity, effect sizes and overlap with earlier cohorts remain unverified.
Different ages, recruitment routes, reporting contexts and tasks prevent treating these papers as direct replications or simple contradictions. A null suggestibility difference does not establish equivalence or exclude all social influence. Relevance 4/5; quality 2/5 at abstract scope; confidence moderate. Funding/conflicts unknown.
Coverage and receipt
Receipt PLM-CONTROLS-20261024-B04. DOI/PMID and title comparisons used corpus ledger version 241: Peters DOI and PMID16574433 already recorded in r74; child-comparison DOI already recorded. This is a documented access-scope upgrade and cross-population appraisal, not globally novel work. The 1995 and 2003 child studies and pre-verification case series were discovered as leads or known prior material; no new appraisal count assigned.
Checked: author-hosted primary PDF, SAGE abstract, selected ledger receipts. PubMed returned footer-only text for two requests; ScienceDirect returned 403. The Atlas’s 155 families and the separate 16-source rotation were not scanned. Published for public reading on 24 October 2026. No database ingestion for this batch. All research is historical; no newly published correction verified. First-discovered dates unknown beyond the prior receipts. Independent replication, raw-data reproducibility and comprehensive cultural comparison remain unassessed.
