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and the analysis of perceptual experience. With research partner Dr. Mercedes Gaffron, he identified previously unknown aspects of visual processing and comprehension. The resultant Zener-Gaffron theory combined a psychological analysis of perception with then-contemporary findings from the field of
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Program in Humanities and the Arts. Zener was appointed Chairman of the Department of Psychology at Duke University in 1961, after having served there as the director of graduate studies in psychology for nearly twenty years.
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Zener married Ann Adams and the couple had three sons: Dr. Karl A. Zener, Dr. Julian C. Zener, and Wilfred Zener. Wilfred, however, died in a tragic drowning accident in 1956.
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the son of German-descent Clarence and Ida Zener, and brother of Katherine (later Mrs. Katherine Humiston) and
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The Zener Auditorium (Room 130, Sociology-Psychology Building) of Duke University is named after him.
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conditioning laboratories in the U.S. It was also during this time that, along with colleague
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Zener was the recipient of the only grant ever given for psychological research by the
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Phenomenological, existential, and humanistic psychologies: a historical survey
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Psychology in Human Context: Essays in Dissidence and Reconstruction
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before returning to the U.S. After a year of teaching psychology at
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The main thrust of Zener's work over the next ten years concerned
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Wonder Shows: Performing Science, Magic, And Religion In America
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Koch, Sigmund; Finkelman, David; Kessell, Frank (1999).
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in 1924 and 1926. He then went on to spend a year as a
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in experiments designed to test for the existence of
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Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
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Index

Indianapolis
Indiana
Alma mater
University of Chicago
Ph.B.
Harvard University
MA
PhD
Classical conditioning
Perceptual psychology
Duke University

parapsychological
Zener cards
telepathic communication
psychologist
Joseph Banks Rhine
extra-sensory perception
Indianapolis
Indiana
Clarence
Ph.B.
University of Chicago
M.A.
Ph.D.
Harvard University
United States National Research Council
University of Berlin
Princeton University
Duke University

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