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sexta, 10 de setembro de 2004 |
 Dr.
Sherwood completed a BSc in Psychology at the University of Portsmouth
in 1992 followed by an MSc in Occupational Psychology at the
University of Sheffield in 1993. In the summer of 1994 he completed
the Summer Study Program (SSP) at the Rhine Research Center and gained
a PhD in Psychology, funded by the Economic and Social Research
Council (ESRC), from the University of Edinburgh in 2001. He was
presented with the Gertrude Schmeidler Outstanding Student Award at
the Parapsychological Association Convention in 2000. He has been
working full-time as a lecturer in Psychology at University College
Northampton since 1998. In December 2002 he completed a Postgraduate
Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education (PGCTHE).
Research and teaching interests
Simon became interested in parapsychology following a childhood
sleep-related experience involving what he thought at the time was an
apparition of a huge black dog-like creature. In recent years he has
been collecting other accounts of this phenomenon from around the
world via his
Black Dog website.
This led to the development of my interest in anomalous sleep-related
experiences, particularly those that occur in the hypnagogic/hypnopompic
(HG/HP) states, that is the borderland states surrounding sleep. As
part of his PhD research, he discovered that people who report a
greater number of normal childhood HG/HP experiences tend to report a
greater number of non-UFO-related anomalous experiences throughout
their lifetime. He has also looked into the similarities between
normal HG/HP experiences and psychomanteum and out-of-body
experiences. During his time at Edinburgh he became involved with some
experimental investigations of dream ESP with colleagues there. Simon
has continued this dream ESP research with colleagues at UCN. As part
of a Perrott-Warrick project at UCN, along with Dr Chris Roe and
Nicola Holt, he is currently carrying out ganzfeld ESP research using
an automated free-response testing system designed by Dr Paul Stevens.
Simon currently co-ordinates a final year undergraduate psychology
module entitled "Parapsychology and Anomalous Experiences" that he
teaches along with Dr Roe. He also supervises both undergraduate and
postgraduate research into parapsychology and related topic areas.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Parapsychology
Sherwood, S. J. (in press). Black Dog apparitions. Journal of the
American Society for Psychical Research.
Sherwood, S. J., & Roe, C. A. (in press). A review of dream ESP
studies conducted since the Maimonides dream ESP programme. Journal
of Consciousness Studies.
Sherwood, S. J. (2002). Relationship between the hypnagogic/hypnopompic
states and reports of anomalous experiences. Journal of
Parapsychology, 66, 127-150.
Sherwood, S. (2002). Apparitions of Black Dogs. The Paranormal
Review, 22, 3-6.
Roe C. A., Sherwood, S. J., Luke, D. P., & Farrell, L. M. (2002). An
investigation of dream clairvoyance using consensus judging and
dynamic targets. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research,
66, 225-238.
Sherwood, S. J., Roe, C. A., Simmonds, C. A., & Biles, C. (2002). An
exploratory investigation of dream precognition using consensus
judging and static targets. Journal of the Society for Psychical
Research, 66, 22-28.
Roe, C. A., & Sherwood, S. J. (2001, September). Revisiting the role
of the sender using a ganzfeld psi task. Paper presented at the 25th
International Conference of the Society for Psychical Research,
Cambridge, England.
Roe, C. A., Sherwood, S. J., Luke, D. P., & Farrell, L. M. (2001,
September). An investigation of dream clairvoyance using consensus
judging and dynamic targets. Paper presented at the 25th International
Conference of the Society for Psychical Research, Cambridge, England.
Sherwood, S. J. (2001). WWW survey of the content, sensory modalities
and interpretation of hypnagogic and hypnopompic experiences.
Proceedings of the Parapsychological Association 44th Annual
Convention, 301-319.
Roe, C. A., & Sherwood, S. J. (2001). Revisiting the role of the
sender using a ganzfeld psi task. Proceedings of the Parapsychological
Association 44th Annual Convention, 415-418.
Sherwood, S. J. (2000). Modelling childhood antecedents of anomalous
experiences and beliefs: Fantasy proneness, hypnagogic/hypnopompic and
sleep experiences. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
Sherwood, S. J. (2000). A comparison of the features of the
psychomanteum and hypnagogic/hypnopompic experiences. International
Journal of Parapsychology, XI, 97-121.
Sherwood, S. J. (2000). Black Dogs and English men. Exceptional
Human Experience, 16(2), 226-230.
Sherwood, S. J., Dalton, K., Steinkamp, F., & Watt, C. (2000). Dream
clairvoyance study II using dynamic video-clips: Investigation of
consensus voting judging procedures and target emotionality.
Dreaming, 10, 221-236.
Sherwood, S. J. (2000). A comparison of the features of the
psychomanteum and hypnagogic/hypnopompic experiences. Proceedings of
the Parapsychological Association 43rd Annual Convention, 262-275.
Sherwood, S. J. (2000, March). Entering the twilight zone: Anomalous
experiences reported between wakefulness and sleep. Lecture given to
the Society for Psychical Research, London.
Sherwood, S. J. (1999). Relationship between childhood hypnagogic/hypnopompic
and sleep experiences, childhood fantasy proneness, and anomalous
experiences and beliefs: An exploratory WWW survey. Journal of the
American Society for Psychical Research, 93(2), 167-197.
Dalton, K., Steinkamp, F., Sherwood, S. J. (1999). A dream GESP
experiment using dynamic targets and consensus vote. Journal of the
American Society for Psychical Research, 93(2), 145-166.
Sherwood, S. J., Roe, C. A., Simmonds, C. A., & Biles, C. (1999,
September). An exploratory investigation of dream precognition using
consensus judging and static targets. Paper presented at the 23rd
International Conference of the Society for Psychical Research,
Durham, England.
Sherwood, S. J., Dalton, K., Steinkamp, F., & Watt, C. (1998,
September). Dream GESP study II using dynamic video-clips:
investigation of consensus voting judging procedures and target
emotionality. Paper presented at the 22nd International Conference of
the Society for Psychical Research, York, England.
Sherwood, S. J., Dalton, K., Steinkamp, F., & Watt, C. (1998). Dream
GESP study II using dynamic video-clips: investigation of consensus
voting judging procedures and target emotionality. Proceedings of the
Parapsychological Association 41st Annual Convention, 226-241.
Sherwood, S. J. (1998). Relationship between the hypnagogic/hypnopompic
states and reports of anomalous experiences. Proceedings of the
Parapsychological Association 41st Annual Convention, 210-225.
Sherwood, S. (1998). Experiences during the twilight zone. The
Paranormal Review, 5, 3-6.
Sherwood, S. J. (1997). Relationship between childhood hypnagogic/hypnopompic
experiences, childhood fantasy proneness and anomalous experiences and
beliefs: An exploratory WWW survey. Proceedings of the
Parapsychological Association 40th Annual Convention held in
conjunction with The Society for Psychical Research, 370-386.
Sherwood, S. (1996, Fall & Winter). 20th SPR International Conference.
PA News, 2, 7-9.
Dalton, K., Steinkamp, F., & Sherwood, S. J. (1996). A dream GESP
experiment using dynamic targets and consensus vote. Proceedings of
the Parapsychological Association 39th Annual Convention, 57-72.
Dalton, K., Steinkamp, F., & Sherwood, S. J. (1996, August/September).
A dream GESP experiment using dynamic targets and consensus vote.
Paper presented at the 20th International Conference of the Society
for Psychical Research, Cirencester, England.
Sherwood, S. J. (1996). [Book Review: Seeing through statistics].
European Journal of Parapsychology, 12, 96-99.
Sherwood, S. (1996, October). Sleep paralysis [Letter]. Fortean
Times, 91, 53.
Sherwood, S. J. (1995, October/December). The 38th Annual PA
Convention. PA News, 1-5.
Sherwood, S. (1995). The Institute for Parapsychology Summer Study
Program. The Psi Researcher, 15, 13.
The Barnum effect
Sherwood, S. J. (1992, March). The “Barnum effect” and differences
between believers and sceptics of astrology. Paper presented at
Regional Undergraduate/Postgraduate Psychology Conference, University
of Reading, England.
Sherwood, S. (1992). The “Barnum effect” and the differences between
believers and sceptics of astrology. Unpublished bachelor’s thesis,
The University of Portsmouth, England.We thanks the Parapsychological Association Board (www.parapsych.org) for the permission to publish the above material.
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