In Refereed Journals

In press:

Rogers, P., Hattersley, M., & French, C. C. (in press). Gender role orientation, thinking style preference and facets of adult paranormality. Consciousness and Cognition.

2018
Denis, D., French, C. C., & Gregory, A. M. (2018). A systematic review of variables associated with sleep paralysis. Sleep Medicine Reviews, 38, 141-157.

Denis, D., French, C. C., Schneider, M., & Gregory, A. M. (2018). Subjective sleep-related variables in those who have and have not experienced sleep paralysis. Journal of Sleep Research, 27, 1-10. DOI: 10.1111/jsr.12650

2017
Ost, J., Easton, S., Hope, L. French, C. C., & Wright, D. (2017). Latent variables underlying the memory beliefs of Chartered Clinical Psychologists, Hypnotherapists and undergraduate students. Memory, 25, 57-68. DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2015.1125927

2015
Brotherton, R., & French, C. C. (2015). Intention seekers: Conspiracy theories and biased attributions of intentionality. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0124125. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0124125

Denis, D., French, C. C., Rowe, R., Zavos, H. M. S., Nolan, P. M., Parsons, M. J., & Gregory, A. M. (2015). A twin and molecular genetics study of sleep paralysis and associated factors. Journal of Sleep Research, 24, 438-446.

2014
Brotherton, R., & French, C. C. (2014). Belief in conspiracy theories and susceptibility to the conjunction fallacy. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 28(2), 238-248.

Richards, A., Hellgren, M. G., & French, C. C. (2014). Inattentional blindness, absorption, working memory capacity, and paranormal belief. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 1(1), 60-69.

Wilson, K., & French, C. C. (2014). Magic and memory: Using conjuring to explore the effects of suggestion, social influence and paranormal belief on eyewitness testimony for an ostensibly paranormal event. Frontiers in Psychology: Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. 5:1289. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01289

2013
Brotherton, R., French, C. C., & Pickering, A. (2013). Measuring individual differences in belief in conspiracy theories: The Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale (GCB). Front. Psychology 4:279. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00279

Ost, J., Wright, D. B., Easton, S., Hope, L., & French, C. C. (2013). Experiences and beliefs regarding recovered memories, satanic abuse, dissociative identity disorder and false memories in the United Kingdom: A survey of clinical psychologists and hypnotherapists. Psychology, Crime and Law, 19, 1-19.

2012-13
Swami, V., & French, C. C. (eds.). (2012-13). The psychology of belief in conspiracy theories. Frontiers in Psychology: Personality Science and Individual Differences.

2012
Ritchie, S. J., Wiseman, R., & French, C. C. (2012). Failing the future: Three unsuccessful attempts to replicate Bem’s ‘retroactive facilitation of recall’ effect. PLoS ONE, 7(3): e33423. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033423

Thompson, T., Keogh, E., Chen, M., & French, C. C. (2012). Emotion-focused coping and distraction: sex differences in the influence of anxiety sensitivity during noxious heat stimulation. European Journal of Pain, 16, 410-420.

2011
Thompson, T., Keogh, E., & French, C. C. (2011). Sensory focusing vs. distraction and pain: Moderating effects of anxiety sensitivity in males and females. Journal of Pain, 12, 849-858.

2009
French, C. C., Haque, U., Bunton-Stasyshyn, R., & Davis, R. (2009). The “Haunt” Project: An attempt to build a “haunted” room by manipulating complex electromagnetic fields and infrasound. Cortex, 45, 619-629.

Hadwin, J. A., Donnelly, N., Richards, A., French, C. C., & Patel, U. (2009). Childhood anxiety and attention to emotion faces in a modified Stroop task. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27, 487-494.

2008-2009
Wilson, K., & French, C. C. (2008-2009). Misinformation effects for psychic readings and belief in the paranormal. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 28, 155-171.

2008
French, C. C., Santomauro, J., Hamilton, V., Fox, R., & Thalbourne, M. (2008). Psychological aspects of the alien contact experience. Cortex, 44, 1387-1395. (Reprinted under the same title in M. D. Smith (ed.). Anomalous Experiences: Essays from Parapsychological and Psychological Perspectives. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. Pp. 136-153.)

Thompson, T., Keogh, E., French, C. C., & Davis, R. (2008). Anxiety sensitivity and pain: Generalisability across noxious stimuli. Pain, 134, 187-196.

2007
Hunt, C., Keogh, E., & French, C. C. (2007). Anxiety sensitivity, conscious awareness and selective attentional biases in children. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 497-509.

Richards, A., French, C.C., Nash, G., Hadwin, J. & Donnelly, N. (2007). A comparison of selective attention and interpretation processing biases in typically developing children high and low in self-report trait anxiety. Development and Psychopathology, 19, 481-495.

2006
Blagrove, M., French, C. C., & Jones, G. (2006). Probabilistic reasoning, affirmative bias and belief in precognitive dreams. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 65-83.

French, C. C., & Wilson, K. (2006). Incredible memories: How accurate are reports of anomalous events? European Journal of Parapsychology, 21, 166-181.

Hunt, C., Keogh, E., & French, C. C. (2006). Anxiety sensitivity, the role of conscious awareness and selective attentional bias to physical threat. Emotion, 6, 418-428.

Wilson, K., & French, C. C. (2006). The relationship between susceptibility to false memories, dissociativity, and paranormal belief and experience. Personality and Individual Differences, 41, 1493-1502.

2005
Crawley, S. E., & French, C. C. (2005). Field and observer viewpoint in remember-know memories of personal childhood events. Memory, 13, 673-681.

French, C. C. (2005). A closer look at Sheldrake’s treatment of Rattee’s data. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 12, 92-95.

French, C. C. (2005). Near-death experiences in cardiac arrest survivors. Progress in Brain Research, 150, 351-367.

2004
Keogh, E., Bond, F. W., French, C. C., Richards, A., & Davies, R. E. (2004). Test anxiety, susceptibility to distraction and examination performance. Anxiety, Stress & Coping, 17, 241-252.

2003
French, C. C. (2003). Fantastic memories: The relevance of research into eyewitness testimony and false memories for reports of anomalous experiences. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 10, 153-174.

Hadwin, J. A., Donnelly, N., French, C. C., Richards, A., Watts, A., & Daley, D. (2003). The influence of children’s self-report trait anxiety and depression on visual search for emotional faces. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 44, 432-444.

2002
Crawley, S. E., French, C. C., & Yesson, S. A. (2002). Evidence for transliminality from a subliminal card guessing task. Perception, 31, 887-892.

Holden, K. J., & French, C. C. (2002). Alien abduction experiences: Clues from neuropsychology and neuropsychiatry. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 7, 163-178.

Richards, A., French, C. C., Calder, A. J., Webb, B., Fox, R., & Young, A. W. (2002). Anxiety-related bias in the classification of emotionally ambiguous facial expressions. Emotion, 2, 273-287.

2001
French, C. C. (2001). Dying to know the truth: visions of a dying brain, or just false memories? [Invited Commentary] Lancet, 15 December 2001, 358(9298), 2010-2011.

Keogh, E., and French, C. C. (2001) Test anxiety, evaluative stress, and susceptibility to distraction from threat. European Journal of Personality, 15, 123-141.

2000
Richards, A., French, C. C., Keogh, E., and Carter, C. (2000) Test anxiety, inferential reasoning and working memory load. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 13, 87-109.

1999
Keogh, E., and French, C. C. (1999) The effect of trait anxiety and mood manipulation on the breadth of attention. European Journal of Personality, 13, 209-223.

Richards, A., French, C. C., Adams, C., Eldridge, M., and Papadopoulou, E. (1999) Implicit memory and anxiety: Perceptual identification of emotional stimuli. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 11, 67-86.

1998
Davies, M. F., French, C. C., and Keogh, E. (1998) Self-deceptive enhancement and impression management correlates of EPQ dimensions. Journal of Psychology, 132, 401-406.

Keogh, E., French, C. C., and Reidy, J. (1998). Predictors of worry. Anxiety, Stress and Coping, 11, 67-80.

Richards, A., French, C. C., and Harris, P. (1998) Mistakes around the clock: Errors in memory for the orientation of numerals. Journal of Psychology, 132, 42-46.

1997
French, C. C., Leadbetter, A. and Dean, G. (1997) The astrology of time twins: A re-analysis. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 11, 147-155.

French, C. C., Leadbetter, A., and Dean, G. (1997) Reply to Professor Roberts. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 11, 159-161.

Hadwin, J., Frost, S., French, C. C., and Richards, A. (1997) Cognitive processing and trait anxiety in typically developing children: Evidence for an interpretation bias. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 106, 486-490.

Keogh, E., and French, C. C. (1997) The effects of mood manipulation and trait anxiety on susceptibility to distraction. Personality and Individual Differences, 22, 141-149.

Thalbourne, M. A., and French, C C. (1997) The sheep-goat variable and belief in non-paranormal anomalous phenomena. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 62, 41-45.

1996
Colman, A. M., Blackmore, S., Morris, R. L., Wiseman, R., and French, C. C. (1996). Is the spirit willing? A pentalogue on parapsychology. The Psychologist, 9, 361-363.

French, C. C., Richards, A. and Scholfield, E. J. C. (1996) Hypomania, anxiety and the emotional Stroop. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 35, 617-626.

Richards, A., French, C. C., and Harris, P. (1996) Does clock-watching make you clockwise? Memory, 4, 49-58.

Richards, A., French, C. C., and Randall, F. (1996) Anxiety and the use of strategies in the processing of an emotional sentence-picture verification task. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 105, 132-136.

1995
Richards, A., French, C. C., and Dowd, R. (1995) Hemisphere asymmetry and the processing of emotional words in anxiety. Neuropsychologia, 33, 835-841.

Thalbourne, M. A., and French, C. C. (1995) Paranormal belief, manic-depressiveness, and magical ideation: A replication. Personality and Individual Differences, 18, 291-292.

1993
French, C. C., and Richards, A. (1993) Clock this! An everyday example of a schema-driven error in memory. British Journal of Psychology, 84, 249-253.

Richards, A., Reynolds, A., and French, C. C. (1993) Anxiety and the spelling and use in sentences of threat/neutral homophones. Current Psychology: Research and Reviews, 12, 18-25.

1992
French, C. C. (1992) Population stereotypes and belief in the paranormal: Is there a relationship? Australian Psychologist, 27, 57-58.

French, C. C. (1992) Factors underlying belief in the paranormal: Do sheep and goats think differently? The Psychologist, 5, 295-299.

French, C. C., and Beaumont, J. G. (1992) Microcomputer version of the digit span task in clinical use. Interacting with Computers, 4, 163-178.

French, C. C., and Richards, A. (1992) Word association norms for a set of threat/neutral homographs. Cognition and Emotion, 6, 65-87.

Richards, A., and French, C. C. (1992) An anxiety-related bias in semantic activation when processing threat/neutral homographs. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 45A, 503-525.

Richards, A., French, C. C., Johnson, W., Naparstek, J., and Williams, J. (1992) Effects of mood manipulation and anxiety on performance of an emotional Stroop task. British Journal of Psychology, 83, 479-491.

1991
French, C. C. (1991) Nuclear psychology in a changing world. The Psychologist, 4, 216-220.

French, C. C., and Beaumont, J. G. (1991) The Differential Aptitude Test (Language Usage and Spelling): A clinical study of a computerized form. Current Psychology: Research and Reviews, 10, 31-48.

French, C. C., and Painter, J. (1991) Spatial processing of images and hemisphere function. Cortex, 27, 511-520.

Richards, A., and French, C. C. (1991) Effects of encoding and anxiety on implicit and explicit memory performance. Personality and Individual Differences, 12, 131-139.

1990
French, C. C. (1990) Psychological aspects of the nuclear arms threat: Annotated bibliography update. IV. S-Z. Psychological Reports, 66, 71-93.

French, C. C., and Beaumont, J. G. (1990) A clinical study of the automated assessment of intelligence by the Mill Hill Vocabulary Test and the Standard Progressive Matrices Test. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 46, 129-140.

French, C. C., and Richards, A. (1990). The relationship between handedness, anxiety and questionnaire response patterns. British Journal of Psychology, 81, 57-61.

Richards, A., and French, C. C. (1990) Central versus peripheral presentation of stimuli in an emotional Stroop task. Anxiety Research, 3, 41-49.

1989
French, C. C. (1989) Psychological aspects of the nuclear arms threat: Annotated bibliography update. I. A-F. Psychological Reports, 65, 403-425.

French, C. C. (1989) Psychological aspects of the nuclear arms threat: Annotated bibliography update. II. G-M. Psychological Reports, 65, 1099-1119.

French, C. C. (1989) Psychological aspects of the nuclear arms threat: Annotated bibliography update. III. N-R. Psychological Reports, 65, 1299-1322.

French, C. C. (1989) The case against mental duality. Current Psychology Research and Reviews, 8, 200-218.

French, C. C., and Attree, E. (1989). The relationship between laterality and numerical and spatial ability. Neuropsychologia, 27, 1019-1022.

French, C. C., and Beaumont, J. G. (1989) A computerized form of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire: A clinical study. Personality and Individual Differences, 10, 1027-1032.

French, C. C., and Brightwell, P. (1989) Spontaneous imagery scanning and hemisphere function. Neuropsychologia, 27, 1105-1108.

1987
Beaumont, J. G., and French, C. C. (1987) A clinical field study of eight automated psychometric procedures: The Leicester/DHSS project. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 26, 661-682.

French, C. C., and Beaumont J. G. (1987) The reaction of psychiatric patients to computerised assessment. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 26, 267-278.

Richards, A., and French, C. C. (1987) The effects of independently validated strategies on visual hemifield asymmetry. British Journal of Psychology, 78, 163-181.

1986
French, C. C. (1986) Mental health aspects of the nuclear arms threat: An overview. Journal of Preventive Psychiatry, 3, 3-20.

French, C. C. (1986) Microcomputers and psychometric assessment. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 14, 33-45.

1984
French, C. C. (1984) Psychological aspects of the nuclear arms threat: An annotated bibliography. Journal of Preventive Psychiatry, 2, 247-273.

French, C. C., and Beaumont, J. G. (1984) A PASCAL program to administer the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Current Psychological Research and Reviews, 3(1), 80-82.

French, C. C., and Beaumont, J. G. (1984) A critical review of EEG coherence studies of hemisphere function. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 1, 241-254.