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According to Wikipedia, Robert Henry Thouless was an English psychologist and parapsychologist. He is best known as the author of Straight and Crooked Thinking , which describes flaws in reasoning and argument. Career He studied at Cambridge University where he earned B.A. hons in 1914, an M.A. in 1919 and a PhD in 1922. He was a lecturer in psychology at the universities of Manchester, Glasgow and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College in the University of Cambridge. He wrote on parapsychology and conducted experiments in card-calling and psychokinesis. His own experiments did not confirm the results of J. B. Rhine and he criticised the experimental protocols of previous experimenters. He is credited with introducing the word psi as a term for parapsychological phenomena in a 1942 article in the British Journal of Psychology. He served as president of the Society for Psychical Research from 1942 to 1944. Thouless identified as a "Christian psychologist". He questioned the alleged visions of Jesus Christ that the mystic Julian of Norwich reported to have experienced and concluded they were the result of hallucinations.

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Experimental Psychology (1939) (1493)
An Introduction to the Psychology of Religion (91)
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN PHENOMENAL REGRESSION (1932) (86)
Straight and Crooked Thinking (75)
The Child's Discovery of Death (1941) (68)
A Racial Difference in Perception (1933) (51)
Phenomenal Regression to the Real Object (1933) (47)
THE TENDENCY TO CERTAINTY IN RELIGIOUS BELIEF (1935) (36)
The Study of Society: Methods and Problems (1939) (29)
Homing Orientation in Pigeons in Relation to Opportunity to Observe the Sun Before Release (1955) (27)
Quantitative Estimates of Sensory Events (1932) (25)
TEST UNRELIABILITY AND FUNCTION FLUCTUATION (1936) (25)
The effects of errors of measurement on correlation coefficients. (1939) (24)
Effect of prejudice on reasoning. (1959) (19)
Psychological Effects of Air Raids (1941) (18)
The psi processes in normal and paranormal psychology. (1948) (17)
General and social psychology (1937) (14)
Animistic thought in civilized adults. (1965) (14)
Perceptual constancy or perceptual compromise (1972) (14)
From anecdote to experiment in psychical research (1972) (13)
The study of society (1939) (12)
The general principle underlying effects attributed to the so-called phenomenal constancy tendency (1934) (11)
Map of educational research (1969) (11)
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON CONTRAST EFFECTS IN GRADED DISCS1 (9)
Apparent size and distance in vision through a magnifying system. (1968) (9)
THE CAUSES OF THE CONTINUOUS CHANGE OF RESISTANCE OBSERVED IN PSYCHO-GALVANIC EXPERIMENTS (1925) (7)
PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF CAMBRIDGE SURVEY OF EVACUATED CHILDREN (1940) (7)
On the nature of psi phenomena. (1946) (7)
THE TECHNIQUE OF EXPERIMENTATION ON THE PSYCHO‐GALVANIC REFLEX PHENOMENON AND THE PHENOMENON OF TARCHANOFF. II1 (6)
Experimental psychical research (1963) (6)
How to think straight : the technique of applying logic instead of emotion (1946) (5)
EXPERIMENTS ON PARANORMAL GUESSING (1942) (5)
The Place of Value in a World of Facts . By Wolfgang Köhler. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1939. Pp. ix + 418. Price 18s.) (1941) (5)
The Lady Julian : a psychological study (4)
The invert and his social adjustment (1948) (4)
Perceptual constancy or perceptual compromise: a note. (1972) (3)
SCIENTIFIC METHOD IN THE STUDY OF THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION (1938) (3)
Relationship between the Absolute and Differential Thresholds for an Auditory Stimulus (1930) (2)
DESIGN OF PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS (1953) (2)
SOME PROBLEMS OF TERMINOLOGY IN PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY1 (1949) (2)
THE PSYCHO-GALVANIC PHENOMENON IN DREAM ANALYSIS1 (1924) (2)
Eye and Brain as Factors in Visual Perception (1938) (2)
Social psychology : a textbook for students of economics and of social sciences (1928) (2)
The 12-Balls Problem as an Illustration of the Application of Information Theory (1970) (2)
THE PSYCHOLOGY TEACHING PROGRAMME OF HOLLAND AND SKINNER (1963) (2)
Book Review: Mystical Phenomena compared with their Human and Diabolical Counterfeits. A treatise on Mystical Theology (1926) (1)
Authority and freedom : some psychological problems of religious belief (1954) (1)
A comparative study of performance in three psi tasks. (1949) (1)
A NOTE ON THE EFFECT OF POLARISATION IN PSYCHO‐GALVANIC EXPERIMENTS (1926) (1)
Psychological problems of language skill (1959) (1)
Miracles and Psychical Research (1969) (1)
Implications for Religious Studies (1977) (1)
Methodology and research in psycho-pathology. (1951) (1)
“Statistical Significance in Psychical Research” (1953) (1)
The Psychology of Religious Dogma (1930) (1)
Some problems of terminology in psychological theory. (1949) (1)
Psychology and Religion (1924) (1)
Map of educational research : a survey of salient research for those engaged in the practice of education (1969) (1)
Psychologies of 1925 (Powell Lectures in Psychological Theory, Second Edition). Edited by Carl Murchison . (London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. 1925. Pp. 412. Price 28s.) (1928) (0)
Psycho-analysis and Social Psychology . By William McDougall. (London: Methuen & Co.1936. Pp. ix + 207. Price 7s. 6d. net.) (1936) (0)
Book Review: Some Aspects of the Life of Jesus from the Psychological and Psychoanalytic Point of View (1926) (0)
A Map of Educational Research in Britain (1966) (0)
Book Review: Psychology and the Church (1926) (0)
Book Review: Common Principles in Psychology and Physiology (1929) (0)
Book Review: Psychology and Religion. By G. S. Spinks. Methuen. 1963. 28s.; The Pastoral Care of the Mentally Ill. By Norman Autton. S.P.C.K. 1963. 25s (1963) (0)
Mind and consciousness in experimental psychology (1963) (0)
Book Review: Theology as an Empirical Science (1920) (0)
THE PLACE OF THEORY IN EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY1 (1950) (0)
The Philosophical and Experimental Aspects of Psychology (1950) (0)
Book Review: Psychology and Mystical Experience (1922) (0)
Recent Works on Comparative Religion (1915) (0)
God as Psychological Reality (1922) (0)
Book Review: Spiritualism and Religion (1945) (0)
General and social psychology : a textbook for students of economics and of social sciences (1938) (0)
Religious Authority—Its Grounds in Human Experience (1921) (0)
Preliminary Report on a Demonstration of Experiments on Hypnotism Shown by Gustaf Wallenius, Fil. Mag. (Upsala) (1927) (0)
PSYCHICAL RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY1 (1948) (0)
Book Review: Community: A Sociological Study (1922) (0)
Psychology and Some Aspects of Catholicism (1926) (0)
Organs of Religious Authority (1922) (0)
[Supplement to Nature] (1959) (0)
Interpretation in Teaching Creative Teaching: Industrial Arts and Vocational Education (1939) (0)
The Mind and its Mechanism. By Paul Bousfield and W. R. Bousfield . (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd. 1927. Pp. vii. + 224. Price 9s. net.) (1927) (0)
Psychical research and experimental psychology. (1948) (0)
Psychotherapy—Scientific and Religious . By Marcus Gregory . (London: Macmillan & Co. 1939. Pp. xvii+495. Price 21s.). (1940) (0)
General and social psychology : a textbook for students of psychology and of the social sciences (1963) (0)
Book Review: The Group Mind: A Sketch of the Principles of Collective Psychology, with Some Attempt to apply them to the Interpretation of National Life and Character (1921) (0)
Professor H. F. Adams and the two-factor theory of ability. (0)
Notices (1923) (0)
Are there Human Instincts? (1943) (0)
Book Review: Religion and the New Psychology: A Psychoanalytic Study of Religion (1922) (0)
Book Review: The Religious Consciousness: A Psychological Study (1921) (0)
Religious Authority—Constituent Ground (1921) (0)
Religious Conversion and Modern Psychology* (1921) (0)
Religious Conversion and Modern Psychology: I.—Conversion (1920) (0)
Authority in Morals: Its Grounds in Human Experience (1922) (0)
Book Review: Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing (1958) (0)
III.—SOUL BELIEFS AND HYPOTHESES (0)
A FALLACIOUS ARGUMENT IN EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY (1932) (0)

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