Parapsychology Laboratory at Utrecht University

Record summary

Utrecht University became an important European center for parapsychology during the postwar period, associated with experimental work on extrasensory perception, psychokinesis, and psychical research. The laboratory and its researchers provide a comparative lead for assessing how anomalous claims were operationalized, statistically tested, and criticized within a university context. This is a research-history subject, not confirmation of extraordinary effects. Personnel, experiments, and dates should be reconstructed from Dutch publications, university records, and subsequent methodological critiques.