News & research

Research on intuition and related topics is being conducted throughout the world. Because intuition is relevant to how people obtain information, knowledge, and wisdom, it is being explored by professionals in a variety of fields. For example, relevant research can be found in medicine, psychology, biology, law, physics, athletics, religion/spirituality, and the arts. Parapsychology laboratories across the world also continue their efforts to identify, explain, and raise questions about intuition.

Research topics range from issues of non-locality in quantum physics to dream phenomena in psychology. Researchers are looking at intuition as it is experienced by an individual, by teams or groups, and in large scale significant social events.

This section of our site is dedicated to brief descriptions of relevant research and provides you with information for further exploration of the topic.

In the News Section we explore how intuition is reported in the news and/or described in the media. Intuition is a unique experience; one where we obtain knowledge without the use of logic or reason as we presently understand them. Explore how others are describing intuition, evaluating its usefulness, portraying it in entertainment venues, and perceiving its problems.

Dean Radin

Dean Radin, Senior Scientist
The Institute of Noetic Sciences

Dean Radin’s professional career has focused on experimentally exploring far reaches of human consciousness, primarily phenomena like intuition, gut feelings and psi phenomena—poorly understood phenomena. 

Dr. Radin graduated magna cum laude with senior honors from University of Massachusetts (Amherst) in electrical engineering, obtained a masters in electrical engineering, and then a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois.

For a decade Dean worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories followed by work at GTE laboratories on advanced telecommunications research and development. Radin’s experimental research with psychic or "psi" phenomena lead to appointments at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, University of Nevada, and SRI International and Interval Research Corporation. At SRI he worked on what is now popularly known as the (formerly classified) psi research program codenamed StarGate.. In 2000 Dr. Radin cofounded the Boundary Institute and since 2001 has been Senior Scientist at the INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES. In addition, Dr. Radin also holds an adjunct appointment at Sonoma State University and am on the Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook Graduate School.

In his web site (www.deanradin.com) , Dr. Radin expresses that his original interest was motivated primarily by sheer curiosity, but also by an appreciation that these experiences are responsible for most of the greatest inventions, artistic and scientific achievements, creative insights, and religious epiphanies throughout history. He goes on to explain, “Understanding this realm of human experience [thus] offers more than mere academic interest -- it touches upon the very best that the human intellect and spirit have had to offer.”

Experiments on Intuitive Knowing  Radin Presentation:  Ways of Knowing Symposium: Eploring the Role of Intuition in Health and Healing