The elements of parapsychology /K. Ramakrishna Rao.
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource (vii, 329 pages)
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)."--