…intellectuals who dominated the field in Britain. 28Morris (2006), 213. There is no doubt Price was an ambitious and sometimes abrasive character who was liked and disliked in equal measure. Author Richard Morris sums up Price as ‘a supreme bluffer, a hedonistic con man, a terrific raconteur, a great conjuror,…
…limited influence – a feature that any theory of psi would need to account for. SORRAT Morris joined with psychologist and psi sceptic Richard Wiseman, Morris to test claims of psi phenomena made by the Society for Research in Rapport and Telekinesis (SORRAT), a physical mediumship group.Two decks of ESP…
…Journal of Parapsychology pioneered the option of journal-based pre-registration of experiments in 1978. To judge the impact on outcomes, Watt and psychologist and psi skeptic Richard Wiseman compared experimental findings for pre-registered versus non pre-registered studies, finding a clear decrease in the number of significant studies when authors adopted the…
Loyd Auerbach is an American parapsychologist, mentalist and author, whose books aim to educate the public about the paranormal. His research activity is mainly investigations of hauntings, reincarnation and other field phenomena. Life and Career Loyd Auerbach was born in 1956. His father Richard (Dick) Auerbach was an executive producer…
…of Utrecht, where Bierman obtained his special professorship in parapsychology (this chair later moved to the Humanistic University in Utrecht). Researchers from the parapsychological department at Utrecht, who included Richard Broughton, Brian Millar and Susan Blackmore, held regular meetings with the Amsterdam team and a group from the SRU (Hans…
George Medhurst (1920–1971) was a British mathematician and engineer who carried out experiments and scholarly studies in psychical research. Life and Career Richard George Medhurst, born into a poor family, won scholarships that enabled him to take a degree in mathematics at Queen Mary College, London in 1942. He worked…
…Forget inspired an interest in the sudden expansion of consciousness he variably terms ‘awakening’, ‘enlightenment’ and ‘breakthrough’. He considers this transformation to be a natural stage of human evolution, agreeing with the early Canadian psychiatrist and coiner of the term ‘cosmic consciousness’ Richard Maurice Bucke (1837–1902), as well as Alain…
…held between visiting research associates of Johnson, including Brian Millar, Richard Broughton, Susan Blackmore, Houtkooper from the Study Center of Experimental Parapsychology, and Hans Michels from the Synchronicity Research Unit. Two dissertations with a central role for parapsychology, by Gerding (1993) on Kant and by van Dongen (1999) on incommensurability,…
…the American Society for Psychical Research 19, 190-227. Mr Dingwall and ‘Margery’ (1925). Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 19, 309-14. In reply to Dr Boring (1925). Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 19, 536-38. Dr Richardson’s voice-control machine (1925). Journal of the American Society for…
