DEAN RADIN
This is a short list of peer-reviewed journal articles and books about psi phenomena. It includes articles of historical interest, general overviews, critical reviews, and descriptions of psi applications. These articles appeared in specialty journals as well as top-tier outlets, including Nature, Science, The Lancet, Proceedings of the IEEE, Psychological Bulletin, Foundations of Physics, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
A comprehensive review would run into the thousands of articles, so this list is necessarily highly selected. I will add more as time allows. Be sure to note the links at the bottom of this page; those websites contain many more articles. If you find broken or incorrect links, or you don't see an article that you think should be added here, please let me know.
The international professional organization for scientists and scholars interested in psi phenomena is the Parapsychological Association, an elected affiliate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the largest mainstream scientific organization in the world. Anyone who claims that parapsychology is a pseudoscience doesn't know what they're talking about.
Can psi phenomena be repeated in controlled laboratory tests? Yes. Here's a good article that summarizes the state of the art as of 2018: Cardeña (2018). The experimental evidence for parapsychological phenomena: A review. American Psychologist. pdf
This page was originally created by Dean Radin in 2015. Latest update: July 2021.
Distant healing
Astin et al (2000). The efficacy of “distant healing”: A systematic review of randomized trials. Annals of Internal Medicine. pdf
Leibovici (2001). Effects of remote, retroactive intercessory prayer on outcomes in patients with bloodstream infection: Randomised controlled trial. British Medical Journal. pdf
Krucoff et al (2001). Integrative noetic therapies as adjuncts to percutaneous intervention during unstable coronary syndromes: Monitoring and Actualization of Noetic Training (MANTRA) feasibility pilot. American Heart Journal. pdf
Radin et al (2004). Possible effects of healing intention on cell cultures and truly random events.. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf
Krucoff et al (2005). Music, imagery, touch, and prayer as adjuncts to interventional cardiac care: the Monitoring and Actualisation of Noetic Trainings (MANTRA) II randomised study. The Lancet. pdf
Benson et al (2006). Study of the therapeutic effects of intercessory prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients. American Heart Journal. pdf
Masters & Spielmans (2007). Prayer and health: Review, meta-analysis, and research agenda. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. pdf
Schwartz & Dossey (2010). Nonlocality, intention, and observer effects in healing studies. Laying a foundation for the future Explore. pdf
Schwartz et al (2015). Infrared spectra alteration in water proximate to the palms of therapeutic practitioners. Explore. pdf
Schlitz et al (2012). Distant healing of surgical wounds: An exploratory study. Explore. pdf
Distant physiological correlations
Duane & Behrendt (1965). Extrasensory electroencephalographic induction between identical twins. Science. pdf
Grinberg-Zylberbaum et al (1994). The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox in the brain: The transferred potential. Physics Essays. pdf
Wiseman & Schlitz (1997). Experimenter effects and the remote detection of staring. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf
Standish et al (2003). Evidence of correlated functional magnetic resonance imaging signals between distant human brains. Alternative Therapies. pdf
Wackermann et al (2003). Correlations between brain electrical activities of two spatially separated human subjects. Neuroscience Letters. pdf
Schmidt et al (2004). Distant intentionality and the feeling of being stared at: Two meta-analyses. British Journal of Psychology. pdf
Radin (2004). Event related EEG correlations between isolated human subjects. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf
Standish et al (2004). Electroencephalographic evidence of correlated event-related signals between the brains of spatially and sensory isolated human subjects. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf
Richards et al (2005). Replicable functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence of correlated brain signals between physically and sensory isolated subjects. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf
Achterberg et al (2005). Evidence for correlations between distant intentionality and brain function in recipients: A functional magnetic resonance imaging analysis. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf
Radin (2005). The sense of being stared at: A preliminary meta-analysis. Journal of Consciousness Studies. pdf
Radin & Schlitz (2005). Gut feelings, intuition, and emotions: An exploratory study. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine pdf
Schlitz et al (2006). Of two minds: Skeptic-proponent collaboration within parapsychology. British Journal of Psychology. pdf
Radin et al (2008). Compassionate intention as a therapeutic intervention by partners of cancer patients: Effects of distant intention on the patients’ autonomic nervous system. Explore. pdf
Moulton & Kosslyn (2008). Using neuroimaging to resolve the psi debate. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. pdf
Ambach (2008). Correlations between the EEGs of two spatially separated subjects − a replication study. European Journal of Parapsychology. pdf
Hinterberger (2010). Searching for neuronal markers of psi: A summary of three studies measuring electrophysiology in distant participants. pdf
Schmidt (2012). Can we help just by good intentions? A meta-analysis of experiments on distant intention effects.
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine pdf
Jensen & Parker (2012). Entangled in the womb? A pilot study on the possible physiological connectedness between identical twins with different embryonic backgrounds. Explore. pdf
Parker & Jensen (2013). Further possible physiological connectedness between identical twins: The London study. Explore pdf
Remote viewing (clairvoyance), telepathy, general ESP
Remote viewing (clairvoyance)
Targ & Puthoff (1974). Information transmission under conditions of sensory shielding. Nature. pdf
Puthoff & Targ (1976). A perceptual channel for information transfer over kilometer distance: Historical perspective and recent research. Proceedings of the IEEE. pdf
May et al (1990). Advances in remote-viewing analysis. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf
Spottiswoode (1997). Apparent association between effect size in free response anomalous cognition experiments and local sidereal time. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf
Telepathy and general ESP
Eisenberg & Donderi (1979). Telepathic transfer of emotional information in humans. Journal of Psychology. pdf
Bem & Honorton (1994). Does psi exist? Psychological Bulletin. pdf
Hyman (1994). Anomaly or artifact? Comments on Bem and Honorton. Psychological Bulletin. pdf
Bem (1994). Response to Hyman. Psychological Bulletin. pdf
Milton & Wiseman (1999). Does psi exist? Lack of replication of an anomalous process of information transfer. Psychological Bulletin. pdf
Sheldrake & Smart (2000). Testing a return-anticipating dog, Kane. Anthrozoös. pdf
Sheldrake & Smart (2000). A dog that seems to know when his owner to coming home: Videotaped experiments and observations. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf
Storm & Ertel (2001). Does psi exist? Comments on Milton and Wiseman's (1999) meta-analysis of ganzfeld research. Psychological Bulletin. pdf
Milton & Wiseman (2001). Does Psi Exist? Reply to Storm and Ertel (2001). Psychological Bulletin pdf
Sheldrake & Morgana (2003). Testing a language-using parrot for telepathy. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf
Sheldrake & Smart (2003). Videotaped experiments on telephone telepathy. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf
Sherwood & Roe (2003). A review of dream ESP studies conducted since the Maimonides dream ESP programme. Journal of Consciousness Studies pdf
Delgado-Romero & Howard (2005). Finding and correcting flawed research literatures. The Humanistic Psychologist. pdf
Hastings (2007). Comment on Delgado-Romero and Howard. The Humanistic Psychologist. pdf
Radin (2007). Finding or imagining flawed research? .The Humanistic Psychologist. pdf
Storm et al (2010). Meta-analysis of free-response studies, 1992–2008: Assessing the noise reduction model in parapsychology. Psychological Bulletin pdf
Storm et al (2010). A meta-analysis with nothing to hide: Reply to Hyman (2010). Psychological Bulletin pdf
Tressoldi (2011). Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence: the case of non-local perception, a classical and Bayesian review of evidences. Frontiers in Psychology. pdf
Tressoldi et al (2011). Mental connection at distance: Useful for solving difficult tasks? Psychology. pdf
Williams (2011). Revisiting the ganzfeld ESP debate: A basic review and assessment. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf
Rouder et al (2013). A Bayes Factor meta-analysis of recent extrasensory perception experiments: Comment on Storm,
Tressoldi, and Di Risio (2010). Psychological Bulletin pdf
Storm et al (2013). Testing the Storm et al. (2010) Meta-Analysis using Bayesian and frequentist approaches: Reply to Rouder et al. (2013). Psychological Bulletin pdf
Storm et al (2017). On the correspondence between dream content and target material under laboratory conditions:
A meta-analysis of dream-ESP studies, 1966-2016. International Journal of Dream Research pdf
Storm & Tressoldi (2020). Meta-analysis of free-response studies 2009-2018: Assessing the noise-reduction model ten years on. pdf
General reviews and applications
Overviews and commentaries
Rao & Palmer (1987). The anomaly called psi: Recent research and criticism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. pdf
Utts (1996). An assessment of the evidence for psychic functioning. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf
Alcock (2003). Give the null hypothesis a chance. Journal of Consciousness Studies pdf
Parker & Brusewitz (2003). A compendium of the evidence for psi. European Journal of Parapsychology pdf
Jahn & Dunne (2005). The PEAR Proposition. Explore. pdf
Carter (2010). Heads I lose, tails you win. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. pdf
Schwartz (2010). Nonlocality and exceptional experiences: A study of genius, religious epiphany, and the psychic. Explore. pdf
Utts (2016). Appreciating statistics. Journal of the American Statistical Association. pdf
Cardeña (2018). The experimental evidence for parapsychological phenomena: A review. American Psychologist. pdf
Schwartz (2018). Nonlocal consciousness and the anthropology of religion. Explore. pdf
Reber & Alcock (2019). Searching for the impossible: Parapsychology’s elusive quest. American Psychologist. pdf
Rabeyron (2020). Why most research findings about psi are false: The replicability crisis, the psi paradox, and the myth of Sisyphus. Frontiers in Psychology. pdf
Applications
Kolodziejzyk (2012). Greg Kolodziejzyk's 13-year associative remote viewing experiment results. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf
Schwartz (2019). The location and reconstruction of a Byzantine structure in Marea, Egypt, including a comparison of electronic remote sensing and remote viewing .Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf
Schwartz and DeMattei (2020). The discovery of an American brig: Fieldwork involving applied remote viewing
Including a comparison with electronic remote sensing. .Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf
Survival of consciousness
Braude (1992). Survival or super-psi. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf
van Lommel et al (2001). Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands. The Lancet. pdf
Braude (2005). Personal identity and postmortem survival. Social Philosophy and Policy pdf
van Lommel (2006). Near-death experience, consciousness, and the brain. World Futures. pdf
Beischel & Schwartz (2007). Anomalous information reception by research mediums demonstrated using a novel triple-blind protocol. Explore. pdf
Braude (2009). Perspectival Awareness and Postmortem Survival. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf
Neppe (2009). A detailed analysis of an important chess game revisiting "Marcozy versus Korchnoi" Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. pdf
Greyson (2010). Seeing dead people not known to have died: “Peak in Darien” experiences. Anthropology and Humanism pdf
Kelly (2010). Some directions for mediumship research. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf
Kelly & Arcangel (2011). An investigation of mediums who claim to give information about deceased persons. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease pdf
Nahm et al (2011). Terminal lucidity: A review and a case collection. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics pdf
Facco & Agrillo (2012). Near-death experiences between science and prejudice. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience pdf
Matlock (2012). Bibliography of reincarnation resources online (articles and books, all downloadable) pdf
Beischel et al. (2015). Anomalous information reception by research mediums under blinded conditions II: Replication and extension. Explore pdf
Neppe et al. (2019). .The remarkable Besant-Leadbeater studies in quantal clairvoyance (quantal remote viewing) correlate profoundly with the Triadic Rotational Units of Equivalence Quantal models in Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm. IQNJ pdf
Precognition
Honorton & Ferrari (1989). “Future telling”: A meta-analysis of forced-choice precognition experiments, 1935-1987. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf
Spottiswoode & May (2003). Skin conductance prestimulus response analyses, artifacts and a pilot study. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf
Radin (2004). Electrodermal presentiments of future emotions. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf
McCraty et al (2004). Electrophysiological Evidence of Intuition: Part 1. The Surprising Role of the Heart. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf
McCraty et al (2004). Electrophysiological Evidence of Intuition: Part 2. A System-Wide Process? Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf
Radin & Lobach (2007). Toward understanding the placebo effect: Investigating a possible retrocausal factor. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine pdf
Radin & Borges (2009). Intuition through time: What does the seer see? Explore. pdf
Bem (2011). Feeling the future: Experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology pdf
Bem et al (2011). Must psychologists change the way they analyze their data? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology pdf
Bierman (2011). Anomalous switching of the bi-stable percept of a Necker Cube. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf
Radin et al (2011). Electrocortical activity prior to unpredictable stimuli in meditators and non-meditators. Explore. pdf
Radin (2011). Predicting the unpredictable: 75 years of experimental evidence. Explore. pdf
Tressoldi et al (2011). Let your eyes predict : Prediction accuracy of pupillary responses to random alerting and neutral sounds. SAGE Open. pdf
Galek et al (2012). Correcting the past: Failures to replicate psi. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. pdf
Mossbridge et al (2012). Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: a meta-analysis. Frontiers in Psychology. pdf
Bem et al (2014). Feeling the future: A meta-analysis of 90 experiments on the anomalous anticipation of random future events. F1000Research. pdf
Mossbridge et al (2014). Predicting the unpredictable: Critical analysis and practical implications of predictive anticipatory activity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. pdf
Schwarzkopf (2014). We should have seen this coming. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. pdf
Mossbridge et al (2015). We did see this coming. arXiv.org . pdf
Woody and Lynn (2018). Perspectives on precognition. Psychology of Consciousness . pdf
Mossbridge and Radin (2018). Precognition as a form of prospection: A review of the evidence. Psychology of Consciousness pdf
Schooler et al (2018). Entertaining without endorsing: The case for the scientific investigation of anomalous cognition. Psychology of Consciousness . pdf
Houran et al (2018). Cross-examining the case for precognition: Comment on Mossbridge and Radin (2018) .Psychology of Consciousness. pdf
Schwarzkopf (2018). On the plausibility of scientific hypotheses: Commentary on Mossbridge and Radin (2018). Psychology of Consciousness. pdf
Mossbridge and Radin (2018). Plausibility, statistical interpretations, physical mechanisms and a new outlook: Response to commentaries on a precognition review. Psychology of Consciousness pdf
Maier et al (2020). A preregistered multi-lab replication of Maier et al. (2014, Exp. 4) testing retroactive avoidance. PLOS One. pdf
Theory
Josephson & Pallikari-Viras (1991). Biological utilisation of quantum nonlocality. Foundations of Physics. pdf
May et al (1995). Decision augmentation theory: Towards a model of anomalous mental phenomena. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf
Houtkooper (2002). Arguing for an observational theory of paranormal phenomena. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf
Bierman (2003). Does consciousness collapse the wave-packet? Mind and Matter. pdf
Dunne & Jahn (2005). Consciousness, information, and living systems. Cellular and Molecular Biology. pdf
Henry (2005). The mental universe. Nature. pdf
Hiley & Pylkkanen (2005). Can mind affect matter via active information? Mind & Matter. pdf
Lucadou et al (2007). Synchronistic phenomena as entanglement correlations in generalized quantum theory. Journal of Consciousness Studies. pdf
Rietdijk (2007). Four-dimensional physics, nonlocal coherence, and paranormal phenomena. Physics Essays. pdf
Bierman (2010). Consciousness induced restoration of time symmetry (CIRTS ): A psychophysical theoretical perspective. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf
Tressoldi et al (2010). Extrasensory perception and quantum models of cognition. Neuroquantology. pdf
Tressoldi (2012). Replication unreliability in psychology: elusive phenomena or “elusive” statistical power? Frontiers in Psychology. pdf
Kauffman & Radin (2021). Is brain-mind quantum? A theory and supporting evidence. arXiv. pdf
Mind-matter interaction
Studies of historical interest
Crookes (1874). Researches in the phenomena of spiritualism. The Quarterly Journal of Science. pdf
Crookes (1874). Notes of séances with DDH (physical medium Daniel D. Home). pdf
Medhurst & Goldney (1964). William Crookes and the physical phenomena of mediumship. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research. pdf
Merrifield (1885/1971). Merrifield’s report (on D. D. Home). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. pdf
Zorab (1971). Were D. D. Home’s ‘spirit hands” ever fraudulently produced? Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. pdf
Experimental studies and meta-analyses
Jahn (1982). The persistent paradox of psychic phenomena: An engineering perspective. Proceedings of the IEEE. pdf
Schmidt (1987). The strange properties of psychokinesis. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf
Schmidt (1990). Correlation between mental processes and external random events. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf
Radin & Nelson (1989). Evidence for consciousness-related anomalies in random physical systems. Foundations of Physics. pdf
Radin & Ferrari (1991). Effects of consciousness on the fall of dice: A meta-analysis.. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf
Jahn et al (1997). Correlations of random binary sequences with pre-stated operator intention: A review of a 12-year program. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf
Freedman et al (2003). Effects of frontal lobe lesions on intentionality and random physical phenomena. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf
Bosch et al (2006). Examining psychokinesis: The interaction of human intention with random number generators. Psychological Bulletin. pdf
Radin et al (2006). Reexamining psychokinesis. Psychological Bulletin. pdf
Radin et al (2006). Assessing the evidence for mind-matter interaction effects. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf
Radin (2006). Experiments testing models of mind-matter interaction. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf
Radin. (2008). Testing nonlocal observation as a source of intuitive knowledge. Explore. pdf
Radin et al (2012). Consciousness and the double-slit interference pattern: Six experiments. Physics Essays. pdf
Radin et al (2021). Psychophysical interactions with a double-slit interference pattern: Exploratory evidence of a causal influence. Physics Essays pdf
Shiah & Radin (2013). A randomized trial investigating the roles of intention and belief on mood while drinking tea. Explore. pdf
Shiah et al (2017). Effects of intentionally treated water on growth of Arabidopsis Thaliana seeds with cryptochrome mutations. Explore. pdf
Freedman et al (2018). Mind-matter interactions and the frontal lobes of the brain: A novel neurobiological model of psi inhibition. Explore. pdf
Schwartz (2019). Water, wine and the sacred, an anthropological view of substances altered by intentioned awareness, including objective and aesthetic effects.. Explore. pdf
Walach et al. (2020). Evidence for anomalistic correlations between human behavior and a random event generator: Result of an independent replication of a micro-PK experiment. Psychology of Consciousness. pdf
Field Consciousness Studies
Nelson et al (2002). Correlations of continuous random data with major world events. Foundations of Physics Letters. pdf
Crawford et al (2003). Alterations in random event measures associated with a healing practice. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf
Nelson & Bancel (2011). Effects of mass consciousness: Changes in random data during global events. Explore. pdf
Bancel (2017). Searching for global consciousness: A seventeen year exploration. Explore. pdf supplementary
Nelson (2017). Weighting the parameters, a response to Bancel's "Searching for global consciousness: A seventeen year exploration". Explore. pdf
Holmberg, U. (2020). Stock returns and the mind. Journal of Consciousness Studies. pdf
Recommended sources
Professional Societies
Society for Psychical Research
Society for Scientific Exploration
Academic and Private Research Institutes
Institute of Noetic Sciences (USA)
Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory records 1893-1984
Parapsychology Foundation (USA)
International Metapsychic Institute (France)
Division of Perceptual Studies, University of Virginia (USA)
Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (Germany)
Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (USA)
Laboratories for Fundamental Research (USA)
Koestler Parapsychology Unit, University of Edinburgh (Scotland UK)
Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology, Lund University (Sweden)
Psychical Research Foundation (USA)
PRF Articles
Funders
Bial Foundation (Portugal)
Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (USA)
Active Researcher Sites
Charles Tart's website
Patrizio Tressoldi's website
Michael Nahm's website
Andreas Sommer's website
Markus Maier's website
Chris Roe's website
Stephan Schwartz's articles or alternative site
James Spottiswoode's articles
Carlos Alvarado and Nancy Zingrone's website
Garret Moddel's University of Colorado "psiphen" website
Deceased Researcher Sites
Suitbert Ertel's articles
Recommended books
Besides my own books (shameless plug), this is my minimal recommended reading list for those serious about getting up to speed on the psi literature. A good starter library might consist of about 50 titles. A comprehensive library would easily run over 1,000 volumes. The links point to Amazon out of convenience, but these books are available wherever books are sold. If you don't see a book that ought to be here, let me know.
Scholarly works
Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century link
Beyond Physicalism: Toward Reconciliation of Science and Spirituality link
First Sight: ESP and Parapsychology in Everyday Life link
Definitive series on the US government's classified program of psychic espionage
The Star Gate Archives: Reports of the United States Government Sponsored Psi Program, 1972-1995. Volumes 1 - 4 link
Excellent, multidisciplinary anthology on the state of the art of psi research (as of 2015)
Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century. link
Popular books
Is There An Afterlife?: A Comprehensive Overview of the Evidence link
Life Before Life: Children's Memories of Previous Lives link
A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal: Our Secret Powers: Telepathy, Clairvoyance and Precognition link
The Essential Guide to Remote Viewing: The Secret Military Remote Perception Skill Anyone Can Learn link
Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness. link
The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge link