Parapsychology is defined as the study of extranormal psychological events, such as extrasensory perception. Parapsychology is a term coined by J.B. Rhine to refer to the experimental and quantitative study of paranormal phenomena. Now generally used instead of "psychical research" to refer to all scientific investigation of the paranormal

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