Robert H. Thouless


Robert Henry Thouless
Born(1894-07-15)July 15, 1894
DiedSeptember 25, 1984(1984-09-25) (aged 90)
SpousePriscilla Gorton
ChildrenDavid Thouless
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
ThesisNature of religious experience and its significance for human thought (1923)
Academic work
DisciplinePsychology; Parapsychology
InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester; University of Glasgow; University of Cambridge

Robert Henry Thouless (15 July 1894 – 25 September 1984) was an English psychologist and parapsychologist.[1] He is best known as the author of Straight and Crooked Thinking (1930, 1953), which describes flaws in reasoning and argument.[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Sheehy was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Thouless, Robert H. (1953), Straight and Crooked Thinking (PDF), London: Pan Books, retrieved 30 November 2010