John Edgar Coover
John Edgar Coover (born March 16, 1872 in Remington , Indiana , † February 19, 1938 at Stanford University ) was an American psychologist and a pioneer of parapsychological research.
Coover was the first to receive his doctorate in psychology from Stanford University in 1912 and stayed (with brief interruptions) at Stanford until he retired as professor of psychology in 1937.
As early as 1912 he began to carry out statistical studies of extra-sensory perception with 40 playing cards . He made 10,000 experiments with 97 people mentally sending each card and 105 people trying to receive it. He himself did not find the results (294 instead of the expected value of 250 hits) meaningful, although today they are considered significant in parapsychology.
John Edgar Coover published his research in 1914 in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research under the title Thought transference .
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| SURNAME | Coover, John Edgar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American psychologist and a pioneer in parapsychological research |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Remington , Indiana |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1938 |
| Place of death | Stanford University |