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Rick Berger

Location: United States of America

About Me

Psychophysical Research Laboratories (1981 - 1985)
Science Unlimited Research Foundation (1985-1989)
Full Member of the Parapsychological Association (1981 - present)
Program Chair, PA Convention 1988, Montreal, Canada
Elected to PA Board of Directors, 2004-2010
PA Website designer 2000-2010
Past PA Newsletter Editor
Currently President Innovative Software Design
Personal Website

Rick E. Berger trained as an experimental social psychologist (PhD from Virginia Commonwealth University, 1981). He went on to investigate exceptional human abilities (Anomalous Cognition) full-time in 1981 at the Psychophysical Research Laboratories (PRL), Princeton NJ (created and funded in 1979 by James S. McDonnell, founder of McDonnell Douglas). There, he developed the first fully automated ganzfeld system and helped deploy the PsiLab ][ Apple-][–based platform with a dedicated hardware random number generator (RNG) to secure randomization and sealed data paths. He later continued at Science Unlimited Research Foundation (SURF), publishing psi experiments and forensic critiques of widely cited “ESP” series. Berger has served the Parapsychological Association (Program Chair, Board of Directors, website), and collaborated on target-set forensics (PRL autoganzfeld distributions) and bioelectromagnetics.

 

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Journal Articles & Major Publications
Exceptional Human Consciousness Research: Convention Proceedings
Social Psychology
Geophysical Correlates / Bioelectromagnetics
Books Edited

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