Christine Simmonds-Moore, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
678-839-5334
csimmond@we stga.edu
Melson Hall - Room 215
Office Hours
By appointment
Christine Simmonds-Moore earned her Ph.D in psychology (investigating schizotypy as an anomaly-prone personality) from University of Northampton in the UK. In 2010, she left her native UK (where she had been working as a psychology professor at Liverpool Hope University) for the USA. Christine worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Rhine Research Center in Durham North Carolina until she moved to Carrollton in 2011 to join the psychology department at UWG. Her research interests include the study of personality types who are prone to subjective anomalous and paranormal experiences and beliefs (in particular, positive schizotypy and transliminality); transpersonal experiences; the overlaps between parapsychology and clinical psychology/mental health; cognitive and neurobiological correlates of paranormal experiences (e.g., attention); synesthesia and anomalous experiences and how sleep-related and other altered states of consciousness relate to subjective anomalous experiences. Recent research has focused on the roles of the body (interoception) and ASMR in anomalous experiences. Christine has worked on a variety of Bial (and other) funded research projects, including anomalous healing, ganzfeld research, virtual reality and ESP, gender role and anomalous experiences and beliefs, mental health, paranormal experiences and cognitive disinhibition, the similarity between subliminal processing and ESP, a project exploring paranormal belief and disbelief and the detection of signals amid random visual and auditory noise and the psychology of ghosts. She is currently working on a Bial funded project about Aphantasia (a lack of visual mental imagery). She is the editor of Exceptional Experience and Health: Essays on Mind, body and human potential, a co-author of text book on Anomalistic Psychology and the author of several chapters and journal articles.
- B.A., Psychology, University of Wales, Swansea, 1993
- M. Phil., Cognitive Science, Dundee University, 1999
- Ph.D., Psychology, Leicester University and University of Northampton, 2003
- Postgraduate Diploma, Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, 2008
- Graduate Certificate, Transpersonal coaching psychology, Alef Trust, 2023
- HONR-2102 (Soph Honor Colloquium:Inquiry)
- PSYC-1101 (Intro to General Psychology)
- PSYC-2220 (Qualitative Research Methods)
- PSYC-3800 (Psychology of Mind/Body)
- PSYC-4085A (Psychedelics)
- PSYC-4085C (Psychology of Ghosts)
- PSYC-4085E (Research Project in Parapsycho)
- PSYC-4200 (Parapsychology)
- PSYC-4220 (Research Explorations)
- PSYC-4650 (Transpersonal Development)
- PSYC-5085 (Horizon Seminar: Psychedelics)
- PSYC-6083 (Research Methods)
- PSYC-6881 (Exploring Ecopsych Conscious)
- PSYC-6899 (Psychedelics & The Mystical)
- PSYC-7810A (Exploring Survival)
- PSYC-7810B (Research in Parapsychology)
- PSYC-7810C (Psychology of Ghosts)
- PSYC-8000 (Consciousness & Experience)
- PSYC-8581 (Psychedelics&PersonalGrowth)
- USGG-1008 (Intro to General Psychology)
- USGG-2041 (Psych of Scottsh Ghsts)
- XIDS-2002 (WDYKA The Honors College)
Fall 2024 Sections
- PSYC-3800 (Psychology of Mind/Body) Section: E02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-4650 (Transpersonal Development) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-5085 (Psychedelics and Psychology) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-6899 (Thesis: Human Magic) Section: 03 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Summer 2024 Sections
- PSYC-3800 (Psychology of Mind/Body) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2024 Sections
- PSYC-4085E (Psychedelics and Psychology) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-6899 (Thesis) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2023 Sections
- PSYC-4085E (Research Project in Parapsycho) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-4200 (Parapsychology) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-7810B (Parapsychology and Cons.) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Summer 2023 Sections
- USGG-1008 (Intro to General Psychology) Section: 01
- USGG-2041 (Psych of Scottsh Ghsts) Section: 01
- PSYC-3800 (Psychology of Mind/Body) Section: E03 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2023 Sections
- PSYC-1101 (Intro to General Psychology) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-4085C (Surviving Death) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-6083 (Research Methods) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-6881 (Psychedelics & Consciousness) Section: N01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-6899 (Psychedelics & The Mystical II) Section: 03 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2022 Sections
- PSYC-4220 (Research Explorations) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-4650 (Transpersonal Development) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-6899 (Psychedelics & The Mystical) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-7810A (Exploring Survival) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Summer 2022 Sections
- USGG-1008 (Intro to General Psychology) Section: 02
- USGG-2041 (Psych of Scottsh Ghsts) Section: 02
- PSYC-3800 (Psychology of Mind/Body) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2022 Sections
- HONR-2102 (Soph Honor Colloquium: Inquiry) Section: 26H external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-3800 (Psych of Mind/Body-Honors) Section: 25H external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-4085A (Psychedelics) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-5085 (Horizon Seminar: Psychedelics) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-8581 (Psychedelics&PersonalGrowth) Section: 01D external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2021 Sections
- XIDS-2002 (WDYKA The Honors College) Section: 27H external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HONR-2102 (Soph Honor Colloquium:Inquiry) Section: 27H external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-3800 (Psychology of Mind/Body) Section: E02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-8000 (Consciousness & Experience) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Summer 2021 Sections
- PSYC-3800 (Psychology of Mind/Body) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-4200 (Parapsychology) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2021 Sections
- PSYC-4085C (Psychology of Ghosts) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-6083 (Research Methods) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-6881 (Exploring Ecopsych Conscious) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-7810C (Psychology of Ghosts) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2020 Sections
- PSYC-1101 (Intro to General Psychology) Section: 16 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-2220 (Qualitative Research Methods) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-7810B (Research in Parapsychology) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Academic parapsychology
I am skilled in research design, data collection and data analysis in addition to being up to date on academic research in the discipline of parapsychology. I regularly engage in research pertinent to this subject, and have presented papers at national and international conferences.
Transpersonal psychology
I have a postgraduate diploma in transpersonal psychology and consciousness studies from Liverpool John Moores University. In addition, I am a qualified transpersonal coach. I conduct research into transpersonal and other exceptional experiences and how they are appraised and integrated. I also teach upper-level courses on transpersonal psychology and have presented at international conferences on this topic.