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| |title=Extra-Sensory Perception
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| |author=J. B. Rhine
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| |publisher=Boston Society for Psychic Research
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| |published=1934
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| |isbn=978-0-8283-1464-0
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| |genre=Scientific monograph
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| '''Extra-Sensory Perception''' is a 1934 monograph by American parapsychologist J. B. Rhine, summarising the first six years of card-guessing research conducted at his Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University. It is widely regarded as a landmark, and highly controversial, moment in the history of [[Parapsychology]].
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| '''Note:''' the original 1934 edition predates the ISBN system; the number above is for a later Branden Press reprint and may not match the specific edition sold at the link below.
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| == Overview ==
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| The monograph presented the results of Rhine's early Zener card experiments, in which subjects attempted to guess the sequence of a shuffled deck of five simple symbols under laboratory conditions. Rhine argued that a number of subjects, including divinity student Hubert Pearce, achieved hit rates well above what chance would predict, and proposed this as statistical evidence for the reality of extra-sensory perception.
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| == Reception ==
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| The book drew an unusually large public response following a favourable review by the science editor of the ''New York Times'', which brought Rhine's work far beyond the small psychical research community and prompted a wave of interest from other American and British laboratories attempting their own replications. Reaction within mainstream psychology, however, was sharply divided: many psychologists were hostile to the subject, Rhine himself was not a professional psychologist by training, and subsequent attempts to replicate his results at the level he reported proved difficult to achieve. A notable failed replication was conducted by W. S. Cox at Princeton University in 1936, using 132 subjects across over 25,000 trials, which found no evidence of extra-sensory perception in the group tested.
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| == Legacy ==
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| Despite the controversy, ''Extra-Sensory Perception'' is generally credited with moving parapsychology from a loosely organised tradition of psychical research into a laboratory-based experimental discipline, and it laid the groundwork for Rhine's subsequent founding of the ''Journal of Parapsychology'' in 1937 and the Parapsychological Association in 1957.
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| == Where to buy ==
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| * [https://amzn.to/4fnpp2k Buy on Amazon]
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| == See also ==
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| * [[Parapsychology]]
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| * [[Precognition]]
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| * [[Clairvoyance]]
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