Learn to read beyond the headline.
An accessible guide to research papers: how a study was designed, what was measured, how results were analysed and what its conclusions can support.
Read the guideGive an unfamiliar idea some context.
A specialist reference project introducing subjects, people and debates in psychical research. Useful for finding terminology and a bibliography before following a claim further.
Academy reading guide · Source reviewed
Why it is on the Academy shelfA question worth
A question worth
spending time with.
Begin with a topic, note how it is defined, then follow the cited studies. Compare the account with independent research and methodological criticism.
Put the source in context
A specialist collection from an organisation interested in psychical research. Its coverage is not a statement of settled scientific consensus.
A note for your journal
Which part is a documented observation, which is a proposed explanation, and which remains unknown?
Academy discussion prompt · not a quotation from the author.
Write your first response in your own words. Add what you observed, what you inferred and what could change your interpretation. Keep identifying details about other people out of shared notes.
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