#Research
27 entries tagged Research.
Organizations (20)
- Advanced Research Projects Agency The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), now known as DARPA, was a U.S. government agency that funded advanced technological research including early classified investigations into psychic phenomena during the Cold War.
- Ahnenerbe The Ahnenerbe was a Nazi German organization founded by Heinrich Himmler in 1935, ostensibly to research the archaeological and cultural history of the Aryan race, that conducted pseudoscientific investigations including expeditions to Tibet and occult experiments.
- AiResearch Manufacturing Group AiResearch Manufacturing Group was an American aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor based in Torrance, California.
- American Institutes for Research The American Institutes for Research (AIR) conducted the 1995 government-commissioned evaluation of the CIA's STAR GATE remote viewing program, whose split findings between evaluators Ray Hyman and Jessica Utts led to the program's termination.
- American Society for Psychical Research The American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) is the oldest psychical research organization in the United States, founded in 1885 by the philosopher and physician William James.
- Bell Labs Bell Labs is an American industrial research and scientific development company, historically known for its innovations in telecommunications and computing.
- DARPA The DARPA (DARPA) is the modern name for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). It is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the...
- Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory The Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory was a research unit founded in 1930 by J. B. Rhine, a botanist who sought to bring scientific rigor to the study of psychic phenomena.
- Human Use Review Board A Human Use Review Board (also known as an Institutional Review Board or IRB) is a committee responsible for reviewing and approving research involving human subjects to ensure ethical standards and participant safety.
- Institute of Noetic Science The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) is an American nonprofit parapsychological research institute founded in 1973 by former Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell following a spontaneous consciousness experience during his return from the Moon.
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a U.S. federal research facility in Livermore, California, serving alongside Los Alamos as one of the two primary institutions responsible for American nuclear weapons research and development.
- Monroe Institute The Monroe Institute is a non-profit consciousness research organization founded by Robert Monroe, known for its Hemi-Sync audio technology, which was used by U.S. Army remote viewers in the Stargate program.
- Office of Naval Research The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is an agency within the U.S. Navy responsible for the science and technology programs of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
- Office of Research and Development (CIA) The Office of Research and Development (CIA) (ORD) was a more scientifically oriented office within the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Science and Technology.
- Parapsychological Association The Parapsychological Association is an international professional organization of scientists and scholars engaged in the study of Parapsychology.
- Round Table Foundation The Round Table Foundation was a research facility founded by Andrija Puharich in Glen Cove, Maine, in the late 1940s.
- Sandia National Laboratories Sandia National Laboratories is a U.S. national laboratory that conducts research and development in nuclear weapons and other areas.
- Society for Psychical Research The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) is the oldest psychical research organization in the world, founded in London in 1882.
- Walter Reed Army Institute of Research The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) is the U.S. Army's principal biomedical research laboratory, involved during the Cold War in classified Project Pandora investigations into the biological effects of the Moscow Signal microwave emissions on primates at its Forest Glen Section.
- Weizmann Institute of Science The Weizmann Institute of Science is Israel's preeminent research institution, whose chemistry and isotope research divisions, directed by Ernst David Bergmann after 1948, provided a scientific foundation for Israel's nuclear weapons program.
Programs (2)
- Project Deep Quest Project Deep Quest was a unique psychic functioning experiment conducted in 1977, involving Remote Viewing to locate an underwater shipwreck from a submersible.
- Project Pandora Project Pandora was a classified U.S. research program initiated by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (now DARPA) in response to the Moscow Signal, a microwave beam directed at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow by the Soviet Union.
Concepts (5)
- Human Use Experimentation Human Use Experimentation refers to the ethical and regulatory framework governing research involving human subjects, particularly in military and intelligence contexts.
- Parapsychology Parapsychology is the scientific study of paranormal or psychic phenomena, including extrasensory perception (ESP) and psychokinesis (PK).
- Psychotronic Research Psychotronic Research was the Eastern European pseudo-technical term for Psi research, particularly focusing on the interaction between human psychology and electronics.
- Sheep-Goat Effect The sheep-goat effect is a term coined by parapsychologist Gertrude Schmeidler in 1942 to describe the tendency for individuals who believe in psi phenomena to score better in ESP and psychokinesis experiments than skeptics.
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