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The elements of parapsychology /K. Ramakrishna Rao.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 329 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781476631202
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BF1031 .E446 2017
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Contents:
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.
Subject: "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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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

"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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