Steen, Douglas (1925-)

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Steen, Douglas (1925-)

Researcher in finance, weather, astropsychology, and parapsychology. Steen was born on July 22, 1925, in Los Angeles, California and studied at the University of California at Los Angeles (M.A., 1951). He served in the United States Navy and as a mathematical physicist on guided missiles for the Northrop Air Corp. (1951-54). In 1954 he became a freelance researcher. He assisted at the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University in adapting four sports to dice-throwing for laboratory research in psychokinesis.

Sources:

Berger, Arthur S., and Joyce Berger. The Encyclopedia of Parapsychology and Psychical Research. New York: Paragon House, 1991.

Steen, Douglas. "Success with Complex Targets in a PK Baseball Game." Journal of Parapsychology (June 1957).