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Experiments in psychical research at Leland Stanford Junior University.

DOI: 10.1037/10933-000

Publisher: Stanford University Press - American Psychological Association

May 9, 2006

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Thought-Transference.

Coover, John Edgar

Pages: 3 –167

This chapter on thought-transference begins by looking at the importance of the problem, specifically examining telepathy. Next, the future of experimental work is explored. The chapter goes on to discuss experiments on thought-transference, including: guessing of lotto-block numbers, guessing of...
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Experiments on Subliminal Impression.

Coover, John Edgar

Pages: 169 –226

Apart from deception, collusion, a disregard for the limits of chance, and "brain-waves," the explanation for thought-transference most frequently brought forward, especially by scientists who have some acquaintance with psychology, is that of subliminal perception of signs or signals...
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Mental Habit, and Inductive Probability.

Coover, John Edgar

Pages: 227 –366

The two concepts, Mental Habit, and Inductive Probability, are so often connected in the minds of students of psychical research with the experimental investigation of thought-transference, as possible factors of error and delusion, that it has been thought worth while to give specific attention...
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Experiments in Sound Assimilation.

Coover, John Edgar

Pages: 367 –408

To those who wish to eliminate all sources of error from the proof of the alleged supernormal phenomena, such as the subliminal tapping of thoughts or forgotten memories of a "sitter" at a 'séance', as the tapping of a cosmic reservoir of knowledge, or as the reception of verbal communications...
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Contributions By Professor Lillien Jane Martin.

Martin, Lillien Jane

Pages: 409 –438

This chapter looks at the works of Lillien J. Martin. These works include: "A Case of Pseudo-Prophecy", "Local Ghosts and the Projection of Visual Images", and "An Experimental Study of the Subconscious". In "An Experimental Study of the Subconscious" Martin takes a closer look at the image...

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