Word: esp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...
...many a U. S. psychologist the letters "ESP" have the effect of a red rag on a bull. "ESP" means extrasensory perception, i.e., telepathy and clairvoyance. Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine of Duke University believes that his card-guessing experiments (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934) prove the existence of ESP. The various criticisms aimed at him boil down to the charge that he has not maintained the rigorous objectivity and experimental control demanded of serious research...
...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...
Since then he became activity interested in Dr. Rhine's mental telepathy experiments at Duke and has encouraged all work in ESP, extra-sensory perception...