Extra Sensory Perception--ESP

by Joseph Banks Rhine, Adolph Caso (Editor), William McDougall (Foreword)

This is the original account of the basic experiment in parapsychology at Duke University, out which came the phrase, “extra-sensory perception”—ESP, that now appears in all dictionaries. It was originally published in association with the Boston Society for Psychic Research, but it has been out of print for years. The Foreword by William McDougall, author of Introduction to Social Psychology, and the Introduction by Walter Franklin Prince, who was Research Officer for the Boston Society for Psychic Research, as well as all the illustrations, have been retained, but Dr. Rhine has brought the book up-to-date and written a new Introduction especially for this edition. The book remains, as Waldemar Kaempffert said originally in The New York Times, “A report that gives an account of the most important study ever made in what is known as telepathy, mindreading, and clairvoyance.”

272 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 16, 2011

About the author

J. B. Rhine was an American botanist who founded scientific research in parapsychology as a branch of psychology, founding the parapsychology lab at Duke University, the Journal of Parapsychology, the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man, and the Parapsychological Association.