Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab

The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) was a research program at Princeton University that studied parapsychology.^[1] Established in 1979 by then Dean of Engineering Robert G. Jahn, PEAR conducted formal studies on two primary subject areas, psychokinesis (PK) and remote viewing.^[2][3] Owing to the controversial nature of the subject matter, the program had a strained relationship with Princeton and was considered by the administration and some faculty to be an embarrassment to the university.^{[4][5][6][7][8]} Critics suggested that it lacked scientific rigor, used poor methodology, and misused statistics,^[9][10][11] and characterized it as pseudoscience.^[1] PEAR closed in February 2007, being incorporated into the "International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL).^[5]