Word: psycho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stevens came to Harvard from Stanford in 1932 and received his Ph.D. a year later. He held various posts in the psychology department until in 1944 he became an associate professor of Psychology and was appointed Director of the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, located in the basement of Memorial Hall...
Work in the field of economics included making surveys of Army administration. Typical of the purely scientific research was the work carried on in the Psycho-Acoustical and Radiation Laboratories here at Cambridge...
Tucked off in a corner of the Biology Lab, the group has plunged into the occult science of "psycho-kinesis." This study touches on the possibility that "the physical environment can be affected by other than known physical means...
...Psycho-kinesis, Kahn says, is only half of the Society's job. The other half is extra-sensory perception, the legitimate cousin of spiritualism and cetoplasmic quackery...
...immediately, at least when the suggestion had been proffered. Such relays by amplifier have been made before, and the equipment could have been set up in fifteen minutes. Indeed, several people informed me that the necessary equipment was sitting no farther away than the floor below, in the psycho-acoustic laboratory. In this way 500 more people could have been satisfied, capacity the 50 students who had been assigned a paper to be written on the concert. So much for that...