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Research Interests
His research interest are around understanding the nature of anomalous experiences and includes research on the psychology of paranormal belief and of deception and the phenomenology of paranormal experience as well as experimental approaches to test claims for extrasensory perception and psychokinesis, particularly where they involve psychological factors. Recent research has been concerned with unconscious measures of psi and predicting performance using a composite personality measure called ‘lability’.
Supervision
Current PhD students
Kirsty Allan: Sensory isolation in floatation tanks as a method of promoting psi phenomena
Zak Baldwin: An investigation into the effects of action video-games and gaming interfaces on visual selective attention and age-related cognitive decline.
Hayley Barton: Cognitive decline across the adult lifespan: A role for sleep and lifestyle.
Mike Daw: An examination of the differential effect of omnivorous, vegetarian, vegan, and fasting diets on psi.
Rachel Evenden: Working with anomalous experiences when counselling for bereavement: Mapping the territory and identifying best practice.
Lesley Kalish: What are therapists' understandings of Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS) and how is that reflected in their beliefs about how patients' presenting with MUS can best be supported?
Felicity Kinnersley: The Experience of Spiritualist Mental Mediumship Development.
Aaron Lomas: The Phenomenology and Understandings of Apparitional and Anomalous Experiences Reported During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Sofia Machado: Induced near-death experiences in healthy volunteers: Phenomenology, psychophysiology, and after-effects.
Ewen Maclean: Pathways to mediumship experiences: Clients’ participation with mediumship in contemporary Britain.
Jenny Mullan: Birth Trauma Resolution therapy as an intervention method for the midwifery/childbirth trauma cycle.
Alex Wilson: The Transformative Nature of Altered States of Consciousness in Youth Subculture.
Teaching Interests
Chris teaches on the undergraduate modules PSY3007: Parapsychology and the psychology of anomalous experience, PSY3027: Psychology of spirituality, religion and wellbeing, and PSY2007: Psychology of wellbeing. He contributes to the MSc modules PSYM101: Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology, and PSYM081: Applied Social and Critical Social Psychology. He delivers workshops as part of ENVM501: Research Degree Supervision, and offers sessions for the Graduate School providing a Basic Guide to Quantitative Research Methods and on Preparing for the Viva. His other main role at the University of Northampton is in supervising PhD students and mentoring early career researchers,
External Roles
Chris is a Vice-President of the Society for Psychical Research and the International Affiliate for England of the Parapsychology Foundation. He is Past President of the Parapsychological Association and past-chair of the British Psychological Society's Transpersonal Psychology Section. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Parapsychology and for the Transpersonal Psychology Review. He is on the editorial board for the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. He is a member of the Bial Foundation's Scientific Advisory Board.
Education/Academic qualification
Master, Transpersonal Psychology & Consciousness Studies, University of Northampton
2007 → 2009
Award Date: 1 Jul 2009
PhD, Persuasion in the Context of a Psychic Reading, University of Edinburgh
Award Date: 1 Nov 1995
Bachelor, Biological Sciences (Psychology), University of Edinburgh
Award Date: 1 Jul 1989
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Projects
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Research programme to explore the psychology of mediumship
Roe, C. (PI)
1/10/19 → 1/10/23
Project: Research › Charitable Funding
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Investigation of the phenomenology and impact of spontaneous After-Death Communications (ADCs)
Roe, C. (PI)
12/02/18 → 12/02/20
Project: Research › Charitable Funding
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Terminal Lucidity in a Pediatric Oncology Clinic
Roehrs, P., Fenwick, P., Greyson, B., Kellehear, A., Kothe, K., Nahm, M., Roe, C., Tassell-Matamua, N. & Woollacott, M., 4 Jan 2024, In: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 212, 1, p. 57-60 4 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review
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Two surveys to explore associations between dietary practices and spontaneous anomalous experiences
Daw, M., Roe, C. A. & Cooper, C. E., 26 Jul 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Parapsychology. 33 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review
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Description and Impact of Encounters With Deceased Partners or Spouses
Penberthy, J. K., St Germain-Sehr, N. R., Grams, G., Burns, M., Lorimer, D., Cooper, C. E., Roe, C., Morrison, S. & Elsaesser, E., 20 Oct 2023, In: Omega: Journal of Death and Dying. p. 1-18 18 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review
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How fasting and vegetarianism is perceived to support psi among adepts
Daw, M., Roe, C. & Cooper, C. E., 25 Oct 2023, In: The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology. 55, 1Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review
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Remembering the future: Facilitating the recall of future events
Roe, C., 1 Sept 2023, Aquém e Além do Cérebro: Sono e Sonhos . Fundação Bial, p. 205-218 14 p.Research output: Contribution to Book/Report › Conference Contribution
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Flow, Liminality, and Eudaimonia: Pagan Ritual Practice as a Gateway to a Life With Meaning
Sonnex, C., Roe, C. & Roxburgh, E. C., 1 Mar 2022, In: Journal of Humanistic Psychology. 62, 2, p. 233-256 24 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review
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Phänomenologie und Auswirkungen von spontanen Nachtod-Kontakten (NTK): Forschungsergebnisse und Fallstudien
Elsaesser, E., Roe, C., Cooper, C. & Lorimer, D., 30 Jun 2022, In: Journal of Anomalistics / Zeitschrift für Anomalistik. 22, 1, p. 36-71 36 p.Translated title of the contribution :Phenomenology and effects of spontaneous after-death contacts (NTK): Research findings and case studies Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review
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An implicit and explicit assessment of morphic resonance theory using Chinese characters
Vernon, D., Hitchman, G. & Roe, C., 1 Jul 2021, In: Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. 85, 3, p. 129–144 16 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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Revisiting Sheldrake's Theory of Morphic Resonance
Patton, D. (Author), Roe, C. (Author) & Hitchman, G. (Author)
1 Sept 2023Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Conference Presentation › Research
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Testing the Theory of 'First Sight' Using a Retroactive Priming Task: Individual Difference Factors
Roe, C. (Author), Patton, D. (Author), Hopkins, M. (Author) & Vernon, D. (Author)
10 Nov 2023Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Conference Presentation › Research
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University of Northampton (Organisational unit)
Farini, F. (Member) & Roe, C. (Chair)
Sept 2021 → …Activity: Membership of a Board, Committee, Council or Network › Membership of committee › Research
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Beyond illness: an IPA study of Anomalous experiences in temporal lobe epilepsy
Spiers, L. (Author), Roe, C. (Author) & Spencer, M. (Author)
22 May 2019 → 23 May 2019Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Conference Presentation › Research
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An IPA Study of Anomalous Experiences in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Spiers, L. (Author), Roe, C. (Author) & Spencer, M. (Author)
19 Jul 2019Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Conference Presentation › Research
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“It's given me this heightened sense of awareness, and a higher level of being”: An IPA Study of Spiritual Experiences in Epilepsy
Spiers, L. (Author), Roe, C. (Author) & Spencer, M. (Author)
30 Sept 2019 → 1 Oct 2019Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Conference Presentation › Research
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A Survey of the Phenomenology and Psychological Impacts of Perceived Spontaneous After-Death Communications
Roe, C. (Author), Cooper, C. (Author), Elsaesser, E. (Author), Parra, A. (Author) & Lormier, D. (Author)
1 Dec 2019 → 4 Dec 2019Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Oral presentation › Research
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'This Other Side of Reality’: Epilepsy & Spirituality
Spiers, L. (Author), Roe, C. (Author) & Spencer, M. (Author)
1 Jun 2019 → 2 Jun 2019Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Conference Presentation › Research
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Press/Media
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What happens when we die: Is there a ‘third state’ beyond life and death?
2/10/24
1 item of Media coverage
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Why scientists think there's a 'third state' beyond life and death that could explain so much. One neuroscientist reveals incredible experience that ended his scepticism
30/09/24 → 1/10/24
3 items of Media coverage
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The Science Behind Why People See Ghosts and Demons; Don’t call an exorcist… yet.
9/06/22
1 item of Media coverage
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How the University of Northampton prepares its students for careers in psychology
26/04/21
1 item of Media coverage
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Supernatural story behind The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre brought to life
25/05/20
1 item of Media coverage
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