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Overview

Christopher C. French is affiliated with Goldsmiths University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with a focus on several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, and general health professions.

The main topics covered in their work include sleep and wakefulness research, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, sleep and related disorders, paranormal experiences and beliefs, obstructive sleep apnea research, memory processes and influences, as well as deception detection and forensic psychology.

Christopher C. French has authored multiple papers published in various academic venues. Recent publications include:

  • "Isolated sleep paralysis: Clinical features, perception of aetiology, prevention and disruption strategies in a large international sample" (2023, Sleep Medicine)
  • "Exploding head syndrome: clinical features, theories about etiology, and prevention strategies in a large international sample" (2020, Sleep Medicine)
  • "The associations between paranormal beliefs and sleep variables" (2023, Journal of Sleep Research)
  • "Dr James Ost's contributions to the work of the British false memory society" (2021, Memory)
  • "Associations between sleep variables and ostensibly paranormal experiences and paranormal beliefs: A scoping review" (2023, British Journal of Psychology)

Their frequent co-authors include Brian A. Sharpless, Dan Denis, Rotem Perach, Alice M. Gregory, and Betul Rauf.

Christopher C. French's work has appeared most often in the following publication venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Sleep Medicine
  • Journal of Sleep Research
  • Memory
  • British Journal of Psychology

Best Publications

  • Measuring belief in conspiracy theories: The Generic Conspiracist Beliefs scale.

    Robert Brotherton;Christopher C. French;Alan D. Pickering

  • Effects of mood manipulation and anxiety on performance of an emotional Stroop task.

    Anne Richards;Christopher C. French;Wendy Johnson;Jennifer Naparstek

  • Belief in Conspiracy Theories and Susceptibility to the Conjunction Fallacy

    Robert Brotherton;Christopher C. French

  • An anxiety-related bias in semantic activation when processing threat/neutral homographs.

    Anne Richards;Christopher C. French

  • Anxiety-related Bias in the Classification of Emotionally Ambiguous Facial Expressions

    Anne Richards;Christopher C. French;Andrew J. Calder;Ben Webb

  • Failing the future: three unsuccessful attempts to replicate Bem's 'retroactive facilitation of recall' effect.

    Stuart J. Ritchie;Richard Wiseman;Christopher C. French

  • Cognitive processing and trait anxiety in typically developing children: evidence for an interpretation bias.

    Julie Hadwin;Susie Frost;Christopher C. French;Anne Richards

  • Test anxiety, evaluative stress, and susceptibility to distraction from threat

    Edmund Keogh;Christopher C. French

  • Test anxiety, susceptibility to distraction and examination performance

    Edmund Keogh;Frank W. Bond;Christopher C. French;Anne Richards

  • A critical review of EEG coherence studies of hemisphere function

    Christopher C. French;J.Graham Beaumont

  • A systematic review of variables associated with sleep paralysis

    Dan Denis;Dan Denis;Dan Denis;Christopher C. French;Alice M. Gregory

  • Anxiety sensitivity and pain: Generalisability across noxious stimuli

    Trevor Thompson;Edmund Keogh;Christopher C. French;Robert Davis

  • Near-death experiences in cardiac arrest survivors

    Christopher C. French

  • Dying to know the truth: visions of a dying brain, or false memories?

    Christopher C French

  • Paranormal belief, manic-depressiveness, and magical ideation: a replication

    Michael A. Thalbourne;Christopher C. French

  • Anxiety Sensitivity: The Role of Conscious Awareness and Selective Attentional Bias to Physical Threat.

    Caroline Hunt;Edmund Keogh;Christopher C. French

  • Effects of encoding and anxiety on implicit and explicit memory performance

    Anne Richards;Christopher C. French

  • Psychological aspects of the alien contact experience

    Christopher C. French;Julia Santomauro;Victoria Hamilton;Rachel Fox

  • Anomalistic Psychology: Exploring Paranormal Belief and Experience

    Christopher C. French;Anna Stone

  • Hypomania, anxiety and the emotional Stroop.

    Christopher C. French;Anne Richards;Emma J. C. Scholfield

  • Intention Seekers: Conspiracist Ideation and Biased Attributions of Intentionality

    Robert Brotherton;Christopher C. French

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne Richards
Anne Richards Birkbeck, University of London
Edmund Keogh
Edmund Keogh University of Bath
Julie A. Hadwin
Julie A. Hadwin University of Southampton
Alice M. Gregory
Alice M. Gregory Goldsmiths University of London
Daniel B. Wright
Daniel B. Wright University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Peter R. Harris
Peter R. Harris University of Sussex
Andrew M. Colman
Andrew M. Colman University of Leicester
Alan Pickering
Alan Pickering Goldsmiths University of London
Stefan Schmidt
Stefan Schmidt University of Freiburg
Andrew J. Calder
Andrew J. Calder University of Cambridge

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