Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR)
A lab founded at Princeton in 1979 by engineering dean Robert Jahn to test whether the mind could influence random machines.
1979 CE · 40.35, -74.65 · status: disputed
The account
Over nearly three decades PEAR ran millions of trials and reported tiny but persistent deviations from chance. It closed in 2007. The 1984 science panel that reviewed SRI for the government called the similarities between the SRI and Princeton results 'particularly compelling' and cited Robert Jahn's estimate that his effects amounted to information transfer of about one bit per thousand above noise (p.2-3). DIA's 1983 Grill Flame report also cites Jahn's 1982 Proceedings of the IEEE paper as a replication (p.7).
The sceptical view
A large replication effort with German partners failed to reproduce the effect, and critics put the results down to a few operators and analytic choices.
Connections in the atlas
- Maimonides random-generator PK tests with Ingo Swann
- 1984 science panel review of SRI remote viewing
- Dean Radin
- Ganzfeld telepathy experiments