The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) was founded in 1882 ‘to examine without prejudice or prepossession and in a scientific spirit those faculties of man, real or supposed, which appear to be inexplicable on any generally recognised hypothesis’.
The Journal of the Society for Psychical Research (JSPR) has a long and illustrious history. It was first published in 1884 and is published quarterly every year. The JSPR provides a peer-reviewed forum for communication and critical debate for the community of scholars and interested parties involved and/or interested in the field of psychic, parapsychological or anomalous effects. It includes reports of current laboratory and fieldwork research, along with theoretical, methodological and historical papers that have a bearing on these topic areas.