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Gardner Murphy '17, who worked with Dr. L. T. Troland at Harvard on the problem on mental telepathy and who left recently to continue his studies at Columbia, has come out strongly for ESP (extra-sensory-perception...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GARDNER MURPHY HITS TELEPATHY SCEPTICS | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Britain Tolerant to ESP...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GARDNER MURPHY HITS TELEPATHY SCEPTICS | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Showing that Britain has a more tolerant attitude toward ESP than elsewhere Murphy thinks that the rapid growth of spiritualism as a cult in America impaired rather than assisted the spread of systematic scientific inquiry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GARDNER MURPHY HITS TELEPATHY SCEPTICS | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Factors which particularly interest him in the Rhine experiments are: 1) Very marked ESP capacity among children between four and thirteen 2) evidence of marked ability among various handicapped groups, notably the blind, and 3) evidence for high-scoring capacities among some psychotic groups at institutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GARDNER MURPHY HITS TELEPATHY SCEPTICS | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...subject makes a high average score on a succession of runs he is said to possess a large measure of "ESP" ability. The mean average of "hits" according to Duke psychologist Dr. Rhine is five. Huntington by mathematical analysis arrives at approximately the same figure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUNTINGTON EXPLAINS DUKE TELEPATHY TEST | 3/18/1938 | See Source »

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