 Parapsychology
Foundation, 228 East 71st St., New York, NY 10021 [email]
Nancy L. Zingrone has a Bachelor in Arts with Honors in psychology (Mundelein
College), a Masters of Science in Education (Northern Illinois University) with
a teaching speciality in college-level psychology, and was a doctoral candidate
in history (Duke University) with specialities in the histories of science,
medicine, psychiatry, and American social history. She is currently completing a
doctorate in psychology (University of Edinburgh) with a thesis entitled “From
Text to Self: The History of Criticism and Response in the English-language
Literature of Academic and Scientific Parapsychology.”
Zingrone was an Adjunct Faculty in Psychology at Northeastern Illinois
University in Chicago, Illinois where she courses of elementary and
nonparametric statistics and introductory and research parapsychology
(1979-1982). She was a Research Fellow (1982-1985) and a Visiting Scholar
(1986-1993) at the Institute for Parapsychology in Durham, North Carolina (now
known as the Rhine Research Center), where she conducted experimental ESP
research. She has been an organizer of, and lecturer at the Summer Study Program
of the Institute of Parapsychology (1983-1993, 2000) where she lectured on
elementary statistics, spontaneous case research, experimental methodology and
women in parapsychology. She has served several terms on the Board of Directors
of the Parapsychological Association since the early 1990s, during which times
she was also the Editor of PA News. She was elected President of the
Parapsychological Association for the 2000-2001 term. She is currently a
candidate for President of the PA for the 2003-2004 term.
In recent times, Zingrone has managed the publication of psychology journals
in Puerto Rico through her publishing house Puente Publications. Currently she
is the Director of Publications of the Parapsychology Foundation, the Executive
Editor of the International Journal of Parapsychology, and the Associate Editor
of the series Advances in Parapsychological Research.
VIDEO TAPE: The
Effect of Criticism: Skeptics, Parapsychologists and Experiencers.
(Perspective Lectures Series). New York: Parapsychology Foundation.
Selected Publications
(in press). (Second author, with C. S. Alvarado). Exploring the factors
related to the after-effects of out-of-body experiences. Journal of the Society
for Psychical Research.
(2001). Controversy and the problems of pararapsychology. Journal of
Parapsychology, 66, 3-30.
(1998-99). (Second author, with C. S. Alvarado & K. S. Dalton). Out-of-body
experiences: Alterations of consciousness and the Five-Factor Model of
personality. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 18, 297-317.
(1998-99). (First author, with C. S. Alvarado & K. Dalton). Psi experiences
and the “Big Five”: Relating the NEO-PI-R to the experience claims of
experimental subjects. European Journal of Parapsychology, 14, 31-51.
(1998) (Second author, with C. S. Alvarado). Anomalías de interacción con el
ambiente: El estudio de los fenómenos parapsicológicos. Revista Puertorriqueña
de Psicología, 11, 99-147.
(1997-1998) (Second author, with C. S. Alvarado). Factors related to the
depth of near-death experiences: Testing the “embellishment over time”
hypothesis. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 17, 339-344.
(1997) (Second author, with C. S. Alvarado). Experiencias disociativas y
sueños: Relación con frecuencia de recuerdo de sueños, sueños lúcidos y sueños
vívidos [In Spanish: Dissociative experiences and dreams: Relationship with the
frequency of dream recall, lucid dreams and vivid dreams]. Ciencias de la
Conducta, 12, 17-43.
(1997) (Second author, with C. S. Alvarado). Relación entre la experiencia
fuera del cuerpo y la absorción: Estudios con participantes Puertorriqueños y
Norteamericanos [In Spanish: Relationship between out-of-body experiences and
absorption: Studies with Puerto Rican and American participants]. Revista
Argentina de Psicología Paranormal, 8, 249-261.
(1994). Images of women as mediums: Power, pathology and passivity in the
writings of Frederic Marvin and Cesare Lombroso. In L.Coly & R.A. White (Ed.),
Women and Parapsychology (pp. 90-121). New York: Parapsychology Foundation.
(1989) (Second author, with D. H. Weiner). In the eye of the beholder:
Further research on the Checker Effect. Journal of Parapsychology, 53, 203-231.
(1989) (Second author, with C. S. Alvarado) William McDougall, Lamarckism,
and psychical research. American Psychologist, 44, 446-447.
(1988) Authorship and gender in American parapsychology journals. Journal of
Parapsychology, 52, 321-343.
(1988) (Second author, with C. S. Alvarado). Los síntomas de la histeria:
Observaciones clínicas durante el siglo 19. Archivo Latinoamericano de Historia
de la Psicología y Ciencias Afines, 1, 11-21.
(1987) (Second author, with C. S. Alvarado). Historical aspects of
parapsychological terminology. Journal of Parapsychology, 51, 49-74.
(1986) (Second author, with D. H. Weiner). The Checker Effect revisited.
Journal of Parapsychology, 50, 155-161. We thanks the Parapsychological Association Board (www.parapsych.org) for the permission to publish the above material.
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