Roger's professional degrees are in experimental cognitive psychology, with a special focus on the lesser known aspects of perception. His primary work in design and analysis is supplemented by a background in physics, statistical methods, and multi-media production. Until his retirement in 2002, he served as the coordinator of experimental work in the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) lab, directed by Robert Jahn in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering/Applied Science, Princeton University.

Roger remains connected with PEAR, but gives most of his time to the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), which he directs. The GCP is an international, multi-laboratory collaboration (independent from the PEAR program) that maintains a network of random event generators (REGs) around the world that send data continuously over the Internet to a server in Princeton, NJ. The hypothesis to be tested is that there may be correlations of anomalous structure in the data with major global events.

(Source: http://www.princeton.edu/~rdnelson/)

Monitoring the effects of group meditation, prayers and intentions took place on May 20th, 2007, according to Dr. Nelson, the results were:

surprisingly strong

independently significant at the 0.05 level

For detailed analysis please visit the following links

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/results.html

or directly at: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/world.medit.070520.html