Rhea A. White

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Rhea A. White (b. 1931) is a prominent American parapsychologist. Born in Utica, New York, she graduated from the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in 1953, and served as a research fellow at the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University, a research assistant at the Integral Foundation, a research and editorial associate at the American Society for Psychical Research, a key member of the Parapsychological Association, and more. In 1981, White founded the Parapsychology Sources of Information Center with the first computerized database of literature on psychical research and parapsychology. The writer and editor of a variety of articles, her best-known works include Parapsychology: New Sources of Information and In the Zone: Transcendent Experience in Sports, which she coauthored with Michael Murphy.