24 Facts About Chris French

Christopher Charles French was born on 1956 and is a British psychologist who is prominent in the field of anomalistic psychology, with a focus on the psychology of paranormal beliefs and anomalous experiences.

Chris French is currently a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and the head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, which he founded in 2000.

Chris French emphasizes the importance of understanding why people believe in the paranormal and advocates for taking these claims seriously to explore the underlying psychological factors involved.

Chris French has conducted research on various paranormal phenomena, including psychic abilities, ghosts, UFO abductions, and astrology.

Chris French is involved in academia, teaching courses on psychology, parapsychology, and pseudoscience.

Chris French has published numerous articles and chapters in reputable psychology journals and has presented his work at conferences and symposia.

Chris French is active in science communication, having served as the Editor-in-Chief of The Skeptic magazine and written columns for The Guardian newspaper.

Chris French has made numerous appearances on science programs, documentaries, and discussion panels to discuss skeptical perspectives on paranormal phenomena.

Chris French is currently Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and is head of their Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit which he founded in 2000.

Chris French 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.

Chris French teaches a course entitled Psychology, Parapsychology and Pseudoscience as part of the BSc Psychology programmes at both Goldsmiths College and Birkbeck College.

Chris French is a Chartered Psychologist and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

Chris French has authored or co-authored over 80 articles and chapters dealing with a wide variety of subjects in psychology, his work has been published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, the British Journal of Psychology and the British Journal of Clinical Psychology.

Chris French contributed to a symposium on The Psychology of Anomalous Experience at the British Science Association annual British Science Festival at the University of Birmingham in September 1996.

Chris French presented a paper at a conference on Paranormal and Superstitious Beliefs: A Skeptical Examination at Manchester Metropolitan University on Friday 13, November, 1998.

In 2001, Chris French tested the effects of crystal healing with the results suggesting that they are largely placebo effects.

Chris French found no difference between the feelings reported between the two groups.

In January 2010, Chris French was elected as a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

Chris French is a former Editor-in-Chief of The Skeptic magazine.

From 2009 to 2016, Chris French has been a columnist for The Guardian newspaper exploring scepticism and anomalistic psychology.

Chris French made regular appearances on ITV's programme Haunted Homes.

Chris French makes appearances in the Channel 4 documentary series Tony Robinson and the Paranormal.

In 2012, Chris French established the Greenwich branch of Skeptics in the Pub, which is currently the only active Skeptics in the Pub organization in London.

In November 2013, Chris French was featured as the keynote speaker for the 2013 Australian Skeptics National Convention in Canberra.