The Elusive Science: Origins of Experimental Psychical Research, Seymour Mauskopf and Michael McVaugh's 1980 academic monograph from Johns Hopkins University Press, is a scholarly history of how experimental psychical research emerged as a field. Its strength is that it is a full length academic monograph from a respected university press, still cited as a standard history of the field's origins. Its limit is that it covers the field's founding era rather than later twentieth century developments, so a claim about more recent parapsychology research needs additional, more current sources.
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Seymour Mauskopf and Michael McVaugh's The Elusive Science, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1980, is a peer reviewed academic monograph still cited as the standard history of experimental psychical research's origins, treated at the top tier. NotesScholarly history of the origins of experimental psychical research, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.
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AuthorSeymour H. Mauskopf and Michael R. McVaugh
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
Publication Year1980
Source Typeacademic monograph
Claims Backed By This Source (18 claims)
This source backs 18 claims across the atlas. As facts: 14 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 connected. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Articles, 9 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 connected, 2 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Historical Figures, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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