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"Parapsychology and Personality" will be discussed by Dr. Gardner Murphy, Chairman of the Psychology Department at CONY, in Emerson D at 8 p.m. tonight. The meeting is sponsored by the Society of Parapsychology and the Social Relations Society.
Murphy is a part of Harvard's Parapsychology tradition. He was one of the first research follows to work under the University's Hodgson fund for investigation of psychic powers, and from 1922 to 1925 to pioneered in the field of scientifically controlled investigation of such extra-sensory powers as telepathy and clairvoyance.
Founded Duke Lab
In 1925 Murphy founded the Psychology Department and the Parapsychology laboratory at Duke University, and several years later went to CCNY. He returned to Harvard in the summer of 1942 and taught a course in psychic experimentation. Murphy was recently elected president of the English society for Psychical Research.
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