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Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Oregon, Ray Hyman is known for his work in cognitive psychology, and as a prominent and professional skeptic. In addition to his academic appointments, Hyman serves on the Executive Council for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Hyman completed his undergraduate studies at Boston University, and earned his Ph.D. in psychology from Johns Hopkins University.

Despite holding positions at the University of Oregon and Harvard University, Hyman is best known for his work outside of academia. While an undergrad, Hyman made money through side-gigs as a magician and mentalist, a fascination which would later guide his career. Hyman is best recognized in the mainstream as a professional skeptic, performing public scrutiny and takedowns of prominent and influential parapsychology figures, most famously self-proclaimed psychic Uri Geller. Hyman helped found the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), has published numerous works debunking parapsychology, and was even hired by the U.S. Department of Defense to investigate the potential reality of psychic phenomena (of which he found no truth).

For his work, Hyman has received awards and honors, including the In Praise of Reason Award, the Robert P. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking, and the Philip J. Klass award. Published works by Hyman include The Elusive Quarry.

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According to Wikipedia, Ray Hyman is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, and a noted critic of parapsychology. Hyman, along with James Randi, Martin Gardner and Paul Kurtz, is one of the founders of the modern skeptical movement. He is the founder and leader of the Skeptic's Toolbox. Hyman serves on the Executive Council for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

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Stimulus information as a determinant of reaction time. (1953) (1371)
Quasi-Experimentation: Design and Analysis Issues for Field Settings (Book) (1982) (1140)
Simple reaction times of ipsilateral and contralateral hand to lateralized visual stimuli. (1971) (186)
The Ganzfeld Psi experiment: a critical appraisal (1985) (158)
Perception of the statistical structure of a random series of binary symbols. (1953) (134)
Gastric factors controlling water-and-salt-solution-drinking. (1954) (103)
Judgments of similarity and spatial models (1967) (96)
Perceptual separability and spatial models (1968) (77)
Interhemispheric effects on choice reaction times to one-, two-, and three-letter displays. (1972) (41)
The Psychology of Deception (1989) (36)
Anomaly or artifact? Comments on Bem and Honorton. (1994) (34)
Evaluation of the Program on Anomalous Mental Phenomena (1995) (33)
Meta-analysis that conceals more than it reveals: comment on Storm et al. (2010). (2010) (32)
Attitude and Distance-Estimation as Variables in Size-Matching (1959) (30)
The Invisible Picture: A Study of Psychic Experiences. (1981) (24)
Involvement and Set as Determinants of Behavioral Stereotypy (1956) (21)
On Prior Information and Creativity (1961) (20)
How to critique a published article. (1995) (20)
The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine (1999) (20)
Emotional disruption and industrial productivity. (1961) (20)
The Nature of Psychological Inquiry (1964) (17)
The information hypothesis and non-repetitions (1969) (13)
The Psychic Reading (1981) (13)
Is Problem Solving a Problem (1982) (13)
A Joint Communiqué: The Psi Ganzfeld Controversy (2019) (12)
Parapsychological research: A tutorial review and critical appraisal (1986) (11)
FORM RECOGNITION AS A FUNCTION OF THE NUMBER OF FORMS WHICH CAN BE PRESENTED FOR RECOGNITION (1954) (7)
Water Witching, U.S.A. (1959) (7)
Psychology and 'Alternative Medicine' The Mischief-Making of Ideomotor Action (small muscle therapist control of radionic, point probe, and muscle testing) (1999) (6)
Creativity and the Prepared Mind. (1965) (6)
Evaluating Parapsychological Claims. (2006) (6)
The Elusive Quarry (1989) (6)
Psi and the mind: An information processing approach. (1980) (4)
Mathematics for psychologists : examples and problems (1956) (4)
Water-Witching in the United States (1957) (4)
Uncertainty and Structure as Psychological Concepts. Wendell R. Garner. Wiley, New York, 1962. ix + 369 pp. Illus. $8.95 (1963) (3)
Ouija, dowsing and other seductions of ideomotor action (2007) (3)
Pitfalls in Parapsychological Research (2017) (2)
Parapsychology: The science of ostensible anomalies (1987) (2)
[Replication and Meta-Analysis in Parapsychology]: Comment (1991) (2)
Effects of Andragogical Educational Experience on Andragogical Orientation of Nurses (1984) (2)
J.B. Rhine: On the Frontiers of Science (2011) (2)
Paranormal claims : a critical analysis (2007) (2)
Talking with the dead, communicating with the future and other myths created by cold reading (2007) (2)
Modern Elementary Statistics (Second Edition). (1961) (1)
Psi experiments: Do the best parapsychological experiments justify the claims for psi? (1988) (1)
Parapsychology: The Science of Psiology. (1987) (0)
Politics in 2-D. (1956) (0)
Patterns of PSI--Exposed or Imposed? (1979) (0)
Fred Attneave (1919–1991): Obituary. (1994) (0)
Science and Pseudoscience: Response (1976) (0)
Stimuli and Performance: The Processing of Information and Structure . Wendell R. Garner. Erlbaum, Potomac, Md., 1974 (distributor, Halsted [Wiley], New York). xiv, 204 pp., illus. $10.95. Experimental Psychology Series. (1974) (0)
Drawing the Line. (1984) (0)
Science as a method. (1974) (0)
Minds and motion: The riddle of psychokinesis. (1979) (0)
The repetition effect for verbal and non verbal stimuli in the two visual fields. (1976) (0)
Part IV. Probability theory. (1956) (0)
Anomalous Experiences in a Mundane World. (2001) (0)
Part III. Matrix algebra. (1956) (0)
What does Goodfellow's classic analysis tell researchers today? (1992) (0)
CODING SYSTEMS IN PERCEPTION AND COGNITION (1972) (0)
Part II. Mathematical foundations. (1956) (0)
Coding Systems and the Comprehension of Instructional Materials (1974) (0)
Parapsychology: The Rodney Dangerfield of Science (2004) (0)
PSI: A Challenge to Critics and Believers. (1978) (0)
Science of psi, ESP, and PK. (1979) (0)
I sms ' and the Structure (2001) (0)
Psychological Analysis: Uncertainty and Structure as Psychological Concepts . Wendell R. Garner. Wiley, New York, 1962. ix + 369 pp. Illus. $8.95. (1963) (0)
Part I. Calculus. (1956) (0)

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