Rhine Research Lab
The Rhine Research Lab
The Rhine Research Lab is the institutional successor to the Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory, founded by Joseph Banks Rhine, PhD, in the 1930s. It continues the systematic experimental investigation of psi phenomena that Rhine pioneered.
To understand the Lab’s role in parapsychology research, it helps to know that Joseph Banks Rhine established the Duke laboratory as a rigorous, university-based home for experimental work on extra-sensory perception and psychokinesis — introducing quantitative methods and statistical rigor to a field that had previously been dominated by anecdotal accounts and séance-room claims. The Rhine Research Lab carries forward that legacy.
You can find a detailed account of the original Duke laboratory’s founding and Joseph Banks Rhine’s experimental work on the Joseph Banks Rhine, PhD page. The Lab’s current institutional mission and research directions are best accessed through the organization’s own website.
If you have a more specific question about a particular study conducted at the Rhine Lab, a methodological question about how their experiments are designed, or interest in a particular researcher affiliated with the Lab, I can help ground that in the ESP-Nexus reference library.
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