Extrasensory perception

ISBN 10: 088311402X ISBN 13: 9780883114025

Publisher: Lieber-Atherton Press (NY), 1974

Synopsis

If extrasensory perception is a common ability, why can't all score high on ESP tests? This book answers the question by describing psychological determinants of success & failure in ESP. Some of the most significant points raised in the editor's introduction are developed in detail in the nine essays that follow, all of them important statements giving a clear picture of research into ESP & the debates surrounding it. Each essay is followed by a comment relating the essay to the field as a whole. In essays on the debate about ESP, an attack (C.E.M. Hansel) is followed by a rebuttal (J.B. Rhine & J.G. Pratt), offering readers insight into the tension surrounding the ESP controversy. The book also includes a balanced overview of problems in the field by J.C. Crumbaugh & six other essays on the psychological factors that influence research. Controversy over ESP is of special interest also because the questions critics raise relate closely to problems within psychology itself. In addition, the essays reflect a quality common to much research: the excitement of uncovering results that advance knowledge. This book is intended for supplementary course use. Because of the fundamental problems it addresses, it offers rewarding reading for all teaching & practicing psychologists as well as for interested generalists. A substantial number of research reports are cited throughout. Those seeking further information will find the cited references valuable.
The Editor
Introduction/ Gertrude Schmeidler
The Pearce-Pratt Experiment/ C.E.M. Hansel
A reply to the Hansel critique of the Pearce-Pratt series/ J.B. Rhine, J.G. Pratt
A scientific critique of parapsychology/ James C. Crumbaugh
Teacher-pupil attitudes & clairvoyance test results/ Margaret Anderson, Rhea White
ESP & social stimulus/ B.K. Kanthamani
The relationship of test scores to belief in ESP/ B.H. Bhadra
The decline of variance of ESP scores within a testing session/ David Price Rogers, James C. Carpenter
Checking for awareness of hits in a precognition experiment with hypnotized subjects/ Jarl Fahler, Karlis Osis
Experimentally-induced telepathic dreams: two studies using EEG-REM monitoring techniques/ Montague Ullman, Stanley Krippner, Sol Feldstein
Index

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About the Author

Gertrude Schmeidler is professor emeritus of psychology at City College, City University of New York. She has held the position of president of the Parapsychological Association and the American Society for Psychical Research. She is the author of Parapsychology: Its Relation to Physics, Biology, Psychology, and Psychiatry; Parapsychology and Psychology: Matches and Mismatches; and ESP and Personality Patterns.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lieber-Atherton Press (NY)
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 088311402X
• ISBN 13: 9780883114025
• Binding: Unknown Binding
• Number of pages: 165
• Editor: Gertrude Raffel Schmeidler