Extrasensory
activation of conditioned reflexes in hypnotic individuals was researched by Stephen Irwin Abrams, a Psychologist.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 15, 1938, and
attended the University of Chicago and Oxford University in England.
Abrams has worked as a visiting research fellow at Duke
University's Parapsychology Laboratory in Durham, North Carolina; as president
of the University of Chicago's Parapsychology Laboratory (1957–60); and as a founder
associate of the Parapsychological Association.
In 1964, he presented his work "Extrasensory
Behavior" at the Seventh Annual Congress of the Parapsychological
Association in Oxford.
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