The Journal and Proceedings of the ASPR
The Society’s historical publications preserve reports of experiments, case investigations, theoretical discussions, correspondence and reviews in psychical research. The digital archive brings together individual papers from the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research and the earlier Proceedings, alongside bibliographic tools and cover images.
Find an article or an issue
- Browse Historical Publications by title, author, collection or year. Each document record identifies the work and links to its original scan.
- Consult the Journal tables of contents to locate an author, subject or article in the historical record.
- Browse Journal covers for issue dates and volume information. A cover image is a separate record and does not include the full issue.
- Read an introduction to the Society’s historical research, with selected documents and accounts of its development.
Selected articles by Rhea A. White
These articles, previously linked from the Society’s original Journal page, examine experimental methods and the possible influence of the people involved in psi experiments.
- A Comparison of Old and New Methods of Response to Targets in ESP Experiments — 1964, volume 58, number 1.
- The Influence of Persons Other Than the Experimenter on the Subject’s Scores in Psi Experiments — 1976, volume 70, number 2.
- The Limits of Experimenter Influence on Psi Test Results: Can Any Be Set? — 1976, volume 70, number 4.
Reading and citing historical material
For older conference programs, bibliographies and questionnaires, explore the historical website collection.
Use the original publication year, author, volume, issue and printed page numbers when citing a paper. The date a scan entered this website is not its original publication date. Searchable transcriptions help locate passages, but the scan remains the reference for wording, tables and pagination.
The archive records research and interpretations from their own time. Publication does not establish that a reported phenomenon has been independently confirmed. Assess the methods, controls, alternative explanations and subsequent work alongside each report.
Copyright notices remain with the documents. For access to material beyond the digital collection, citation questions or reproduction permission, contact the Society or read about the Library and Archives.