obsolete Freudian views it is a useful elementary guide to the psychology of religion. Psychologist John Beloff commenting on Thouless and his parapsychological studies wrote: "Although his own ESP experiments were not notably successful, he made an original contribution to the study of PK (psychokinesis) with dice, using himself as subject. Unlike Rhine, however, he never lost interest in the age old topic of an afterlife... He even devised a coded message, which he took with him to the grave, in the hope that he might demonstrate survival by revealing the code posthumously through a medium. No such message, however, has yet been received." Psychologist L. Börje Löfgren has criticised Thouless for endorsing the mentalist Frederick Marion as a genuine psychic. He suggested that "Thouless is an honest man, but his powers of self-deception must be rather considerable." Personal life Robert Thouless married Priscilla Gorton, an English teacher, and was the father of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist David Thouless. Publications An Introduction to the Psychology of Religion (1923, 1961) The Lady Julian: A Psychological Study (1924) Social Psychology: A Text Book for Students of Economics (1925) Control of the Mind (1929) How to Think Straight (1948) Experimental Psychical Research (1963) Mind and Consciousness in Experimental Psychology (1963) Rationality and Prejudice (1964) Straight and Crooked Thinking (1968) From Anecdote to Experiment in Psychical Research (1972) References External links An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural – describes Thouless' test for survival after death. David J. Thouless, Robert's son - Nobel prize winning physicist. 1894 births 1984 deaths Academics of the University of Glasgow Academics of the University of Manchester British psychologists Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Parapsychologists People educated at the City of Norwich School Presidents of the British Psychological Society 20th-century psychologists