Chris French is Emeritus Professor and Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit in the Psychology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a Patron of Humanists UK. He has published over 200 articles and chapters covering a wide range of topics. His main current area of research is the psychology of paranormal beliefs and anomalous experiences. He frequently appears on radio and television casting a sceptical eye over paranormal claims. He co-authored Anomalistic Psychology (2012, with Nicola Holt, Christine Simmonds-Moore, and David Luke, 2012) and Anomalistic Psychology: Exploring Paranormal Belief and Experience (2014, with Anna Stone). His latest book is The Science of Weird Shit: Why Our Minds Conjure the Paranormal tpublished by MIT Press on 19 March 2024.
