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...largely forgotten. Another uproar sprang from the importation from Germany of "dynamic patterns of behavior" (Gestalt psychology). An endless dispute goes on over the value and significance of I. Q. tests. At present a major trouble focus is the research carried on at Duke University by Joseph Banks Rhine, by which Dr. Rhine claims to have proved the existence of "ESP'' (extrasensory perception). Dr. Rhine-some of whose admirers have compared him to Abraham Lincoln, and others to Sigmund Freud and Charles Darwin rolled into one-invented a famous test in which subjects are asked to "guess...
When the eastern branch of the American Psychological Association convened in Manhattan last week, no less than three papers were read on the Rhine question, all of them hostile. Small, vehement Psychologist Hyman Rogosin of New York City declared that...
...Rhine has selected material in order to prove his own belief; he inferentially admits that he stops scoring when a subject's percentage of correct guesses falls below a certain limit...
...Rhine at Duke has come under the influence of venerable, opinionated Psychologist William McDougall, who once belonged to a "dubious" society for psychic research. Dr. McDougall and Dr. Rhine are among the few scientists who still believe in Lamarckism (inheritance of acquired characteristics...
Next day Dr. Steuart Henderson Britt of George Washington University in another address said, that while he was willing to leave the mathematics of ESP to the mathematicians, he was not willing to overlook the fact that Rhine had not published all his scores, or the possibility that some of his subjects had juggled the results to please their mentor. He asserted that ESP cards are so heavily printed that the designs can be told either by sight or by touch from the back, proved this point when he correctly read 24 out of 25 ESP cards whose faces...