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Murphy said that ESP was a subconscious power inherent in everybody but controlled by at least two personality factors, motivation and dislocation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Murphy Relates Personality to ESP | 4/1/1949 | See Source »

Some British investigators think the evidence in favor of dice control is "even more clear-cut" than for ESP. Last week the eminently respectable American Society for Psychical Research (founded by William James) got into the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Psychic Crapshooters | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...Duke fortune has not bought intellectual distinction for the University. Its best known product: Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine's experiments on ESP ("extra-sensory perception"-clairvoyance and telepathy). Of his faith in these, President Few says: "I'm backin' him, ain't I?" Dr. Few believes Duke needs much more money, wishes it were as rich as Harvard. Old Dr. Few just now is irked by New Deal public power projects and taxes, which threaten the income from the Duke endowment, largely invested in the Duke North Carolina power companies. To critics like Abraham Flexner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Duke's Design | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...questionnaire published in Duke University's JOURNAL OF PARAPSYCHOLOGY five members of the American Psychological Association agreed with Dr. Joseph B. Rhine of Duke that ESP (extra-sensory perception) was "an established fact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 1/20/1939 | See Source »

...state of U. S. psychological opinion on ESP was clarified last week by the results of a questionnaire published in Duke University's Journal of Parapsychology. Physicist Clarence C. Clark of New York University and a collaborator questioned 603 members of the American Psychological Association, got replies from 352. Of these, five agreed with Rhine that ESP was "an established fact." Of the remaining 347 who did not regard it as such, 142 voted it "merely an unknown," 51 "an impossibility," 128 "a remote possibility," 26 "a likely possibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 347-to-5 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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