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The elements of parapsychology / K. Ramakrishna Rao

Author
Rao, K. Ramakrishna
Published
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
Physical Description
1 online resource (vii, 329 pages)
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Contents
Background and beginnings -- Concepts and methods -- Accumulating evidence -- Problems of replication and application -- Process-oriented research -- The problem of Psi-missing -- The experimenter effect -- Explanatory quagmire -- The unsettled state: postscript to sixty -- Years in parapsychology.
Summary
"Psychic phenomena, recorded throughout human history, remained a mystery or a matter of faith rather than a subject of serious study until scientists began to investigate them. Systematic experimentation began with the work of J.B. Rhine at Duke University, resulting in the publication of Extra-Sensory Perception (1934) followed by Extra-Sensory Perception After Sixty Years (1940)."--
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ISBN
9781476631202 (electronic bk.)
1476631204 (electronic bk.)
9781476671222
1476671222
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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