Chris French
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Chris French at a Merseyside Skeptics Society Skeptics in the Pub event in April 2011
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Christopher Charles French 6 April 1956 |
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| Residence | Greenwich, London, England | ||
| Nationality | British | ||
| Education | B.A., PhD, CPsychol, FBPsS, FRSA | ||
| Alma mater | Helsby County Grammar School for Boys 1967–1974 | ||
| Occupation | Psychologist | ||
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| Organization | Anomalistic psychology Research Unit | ||
| Known for | The Skeptic (UK) magazine | ||
| Awards | Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association | ||
| Website | Goldsmiths Home Page | ||
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Christopher Charles French is a British psychologist specialising in the psychology of paranormal beliefs and experiences, cognition and emotion. He is the head of the University of London's Anomalistic psychology research unit and appears regularly in the media as an expert on testing paranormal claims.
French is currently Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and is head of their Anomalistic psychology Research Unit which he founded in 2000.
On the importance of Anomalistic psychology he said in an interview on The Skeptic Zone,
The focus of his current research is the psychology of paranormal beliefs and anomalous experiences. In addition to academic activities, such as conference presentations and invited talks in other departments, he frequently appears on radio and television presenting a sceptical view of paranormal claims. He has been consulted as an expert on a wide range of such claims including psychic abilities,recovered memory,telepathy, faith healing,past life regression,ghosts,UFO abductions,out-of-body experiences,astrology and so on.
French teaches a course entitled Psychology, Parapsychology and Pseudoscience as part of the BSc (Hons) Psychology programmes at both Goldsmiths College and Birkbeck College. He is a Chartered Psychologist and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
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