What does a typical day involve for you?

What does a typical day involve for you?

Chris French (Anomalistic Psychologist) gives expert video advice on: What is anomalistic psychology?; What is the difference between anomalistic psychology and parapsychology?; Is parapsychology a real science? and more...

A typical day for me as with anyone else working in a University will be divided between research, teaching, and admin. I will say nothing more about the admin. The teaching I enjoy thoroughly because anomalistic psychology not only really hooks the students in but it's a great tool to actually teach them the basic skills of critical thinking. Why some kinds of evidence should be given more weight than other kinds of evidence and it's also great fun. On the research side then the research will vary from setting up studies where we'll compare groups of people who believe in the paranormal with groups of people who don't believe in the paranormal in terms of how they interpret information, how they remember information, personality characteristics and so on and so forth. In an attempt to understand why some people seem to be prone to believing in the paranormal and some don't. On top of that there may well be media events, etcetera, etcetera, public education, so the day can be very, very varied there's no straight routine, but apart from the admin then I enjoy most of it.