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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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Research programme to explore the psychology of mediumship
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)
12/02/18 → 12/02/20
Project: Research › Charitable Funding
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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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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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Expériences exceptionnelles nécrophaniques et deuil paradoxal: études de la phénoménologie et des répercussions des vécus effrayants de contact avec les défunts
Evrard, R., Dollander, M., Elsaesser, E., Cooper, C. E., Lorimer, D. & Roe, C., Nov 2021, In: Evolution Psychiatrique. 86, 4, p. 799-824Translated title of the contribution :Exceptional necrophanic experiences and paradoxical mourning: Studies of the phenomenology and the repercussions of frightening experiences of contact with the deceased. Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review
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Factors Moderating the Impact of After Death Communications on Beliefs and Spirituality
Kalelioglu, T., Penberthy, J. K., Pehlivanova, M., Roe, C., Cooper, C. E., Lorimer, D. & Elsaesser, E., 9 Jul 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Omega: Journal of Death and Dying.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review
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Perceptual phenomena associated with spontaneous experiences of after-death communication: Analysis of visual, tactile, auditory and olfactory sensations
Woollacott, M., Roe, C., Cooper, C. E., Lorimer, D. & Elsaesser, E., 23 Feb 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Explore: the Journal of Science and Healing. 17, 3Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review
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Reconsidering the Blackmore-Sargent controversy
Roe, C., 1 Jul 2021, In: The Magazine of the Society for Psychical Research. 2, p. 4-5 2 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article
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Small wonder: Effect Sizes in Parapsychology
Roe, C., 1 Apr 2021, In: The Magazine of the Society for Psychical Research. 1, p. 4-5 2 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article
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The phenomenology and impact of hallucinations concerning the deceased
Elsaesser, E., Roe, C., Cooper, C. E. & Lorimer, D., 16 Aug 2021, In: BJPsych Open. 7, 5, 10 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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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
Louise Spiers (Author), Chris Roe (Author) & Melinda Spencer (Author)
30 Sep 2019 → 1 Oct 2019Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Conference Presentation
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Beyond illness: an IPA study of Anomalous experiences in temporal lobe epilepsy
Louise Spiers (Author), Chris Roe (Author) & Melinda Spencer (Author)
22 May 2019 → 23 May 2019Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Conference Presentation
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A Survey of the Phenomenology and Psychological Impacts of Perceived Spontaneous After-Death Communications
Chris Roe (Author), Callum Cooper (Author), Evelyn Elsaesser (Author), Alejandro Parra (Author) & david Lormier (Author)
1 Dec 2019 → 4 Dec 2019Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Oral presentation › Research
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An IPA Study of Anomalous Experiences in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Louise Spiers (Author), Chris Roe (Author) & Melinda Spencer (Author)
19 Jul 2019Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Conference Presentation
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'This Other Side of Reality’: Epilepsy & Spirituality
Louise Spiers (Author), Chris Roe (Author) & Melinda Spencer (Author)
1 Jun 2019 → 2 Jun 2019Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Conference Presentation
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Exploring People’s Experiences of Telephone Telepathy: A Qualitative Study
Chris Roe (Author) & Lesley-Ann Smith (Author)
16 Jul 2015Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Oral presentation › Research
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The dreamy state: an autoethnography of spiritual meaning in epilepsy
Louise Spiers (Author), Liz Roxburgh (Author) & Chris Roe (Author)
30 Oct 2015Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Conference Presentation
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British Psychological Society (BPS) Transpersonal Psychology Section 18th Annual Conference
Chris Roe (Participant), Charmaine Sonnex (Participant) & Elizabeth C Roxburgh (Participant)
10 Oct 2014 → 12 Oct 2014Activity: Organising a conference or workshop › Participating in a conference or workshop › Research
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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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University of Northampton researchers demonstrate impact of lucid dreaming
David Saunders, Chris Roe & Graham Smith
8/08/17 → 10/08/17
3 items of Media coverage
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University of Northampton researchers demonstrate impact of lucid...
David Saunders, Chris Roe & Graham Smith
8/08/17
1 item of Media coverage
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Professor jets to Brazilian conference which explores links between spirituality and mental health
30/06/17 → 3/07/17
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