Leonard Zusne (1924–2003) was an American psychologist. He published articles and books on the

history of psychology Psychology is defined as "the scientific study of behavior and mental processes". Philosophical interest in the human mind and behavior dates back to the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Persia, Greece, China, and India. Psychology as a field of ...

, magical thinking and

visual perception Visual perception is the ability to interpret the surrounding Biophysical environment, environment through photopic vision (daytime vision), color vision, scotopic vision (night vision), and mesopic vision (twilight vision), using light in the ...

. Zusne worked as a Professor of Psychology at the University of Tulsa. A critic of

paranormal Paranormal events are purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as being beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding. Not ...

claims, he was influential in the field of anomalistic psychology.

Publications

*''Visual Perception of Form'' (1970)MacKay, Donald. (1971)
''Visual Perception of Form''
New Scientist. 10 June. p. 648. *''Biographical Dictionary of Psychology'' (1984) *''Magical Thinking and Parapsychology''. In ''A Skeptic’s Handbook of Parapsychology''. Edited by

Paul Kurtz Paul Kurtz (December 21, 1925 – October 20, 2012) was an American scientific skeptic and secular humanist. He has been called "the father of secular humanism". He was Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at B ...

. Prometheus Books. pp. 685–700. *''Eponyms in Psychology: A Dictionary and Biographical Sourcebook'' (1987) *''Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking'' ith Warren H. Jones(1989)

References

1924 births 2003 deaths 20th-century American psychologists American skeptics Anomalistic psychology Critics of parapsychology University of Tulsa alumni {{US-psychologist-stub