Prasad, Kali (1901-)
Prasad, Kali (1901-)
Indian professor of psychology who investigated parapsychology. Prasad was born in 1901, in Sitapur, India, and studied at Allahabad University (Ph.D.). He was professor and head of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology of Lucknow University beginning in 1944. He was the Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1954-56).
Prasad was author of the book The Psychology of Meaning (1949), was responsible for the section on 'Communal Tensions' in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization Report on India (1952), and was also included in the book, In the Minds of Men (1953) by Gardner Murphy. Prasad was interested in telepathy and psychokinesis and was involved in various research projects funded by the Parapsychology Foundation. These projects concerned experiments in extrasensory perception (ESP) and the influence of interpersonal relations between subject and experimenter on ESP results.
Sources:
Pleasants, Helene, ed. Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology. New York: Helix Press, 1964.