Parapsychology

According to Dr. J. B. Rhine, Parapsychology is the branch attached to psychology, and is concerned with studying psychic, psychophysical, and paraphysical facts. Parapsychology is the branch of knowledge that investigates those interrelationships between man and his environment: biological, physical, and social, and in which no known sensory organs or transfer of physical energy known to date are involved. (Currently it is also called Parapsychobiophysics.)

Science that studies paranormal phenomena. Historically, it was born in the 1930s, and transformed metapsychic empiricism into science.

Definition created by Max Dessoir in 1889, and updated by Dr. J. B. Rhine in the 1930s. It is the scientific term for the study of psychic functions of a paranormal nature. Although parapsychology is a branch attached to psychology, and is concerned with studying psychic, psychophysical, and paraphysical events, it also includes the phenomena of spiritism, apparitions, and out-of-body experiences. Parapsychology is the scientific equivalent of Metapsychics and Psychotronics, although these definitions have more physical than psychological implications. It is also known as Parapsychobiophysics.