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Murphy Relates Personality to ESP

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Personality plays a large part in extra-sensory perception, Gardner Murphy told an audience of 500 in Emerison D last night, at a meeting sponsored by the Society of Parapsychology.

Murphy said that ESP was a subconscious power inherent in everybody but controlled by at least two personality factors, motivation and dislocation.

To prove the powerful effect of motivation, he cited an experiment in which people, labeled "sheep," who believed strongly in the possibility of ESP consistently scored better than the laws of chance would allow.

The "goats," who has scoffed at the notion of ESP, scored considerably less than mere random choices would give.

As far as dissociation was concerned, Murphy pointed out that most natural telepathic events take place when the subject is relaxed, or in a brown study.

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