Papers, 1972-1985.

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Papers, 1972-1985.

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Collection contains materials used in preparation for Mauskopf's book, The Elusive Science, co-authored with M.R. McVaugh. Included are audio cassettes, transcripts, and notes. Interviews are with J.B. and Louisa Rhine, B.F. Skinner, Gardner Murphy, J. Gaither Pratt, and other prominent psychologists. Five notebooks contain chiefly Mauskopf's notes on the council minutes of the Society for Psychical Research; and there is also a reel-to-reel tape of an interview with Mrs. K.M. Goldney.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Mauskopf, Seymour H.

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Duke University Professor of History. From the description of Papers, 1972-1985. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36492145 ...

Rhine, J. B. (Joseph Banks), 1895-1980

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Parapsychologist and Professor of Psychology, Duke University. From the description of Papers, 1925-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155498363 Rhine was an American educator, psychologist, and author. From the guide to the J. B. Rhine Collection on the, New Frontiers of the Mind, 1937, (Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections) ...

Pratt, J. Gaither (Joseph Gaither), 1910-1979

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Joseph Gaither Pratt was born in Winston-Salem, NC on August 31, 1910 to Joseph M. and Mattis H. Pratt. He completed his academic training at Duke University: A. B. in 1931, M. A. in 1933 and Ph.D. in 1936. He married his wife Nellie in 1936, and they had four children. Pratt joined the psychology department at Duke in 1937 as an instructor and a member of the staff of parapsychology where he served for nearly 30 years. He left Duke in 1963 to join the University of Virginia School of Medicine. ...

Skinner, B.F. (Burrhus Frederic), 1904-1990

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Psychologist. Full name: Burrhus Frederic Skinner. From the description of B. F. Skinner papers, 1963-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984305 Skinner taught psychology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Burrhus Frederic Skinner, 1928-1979 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973270 ...

McVaugh, M. R. (Michael Rogers), 1938-

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Rhine, Louisa E., 1891-1983

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Scientist, Ph. D. from University of Chicago. Worked with her husband Joseph Banks Rhine in parapsychology field. Published several works on the topic. From the description of Papers, 1890-1983. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 15672068 1891, Nov. 9 Born, Louisa Ella Weckesser, on an island in the Niagara River, New York State. 1919 ...

Murphy, Gardner, 1895-1979‏

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Psychologist and parapsychologist. From the description of Papers, 1938-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155494325 Research director at the Menninger Foundation in Kansas and at different times the president of both the American Psychological Association and the American Society of Psychical Research. From the description of Correspondence with Margaret Naumburg, 1945-1963. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 63585542 ...