psychology (Others)

Language of Instruction: English

parapsychology, psychology of anomalous experiences

Continuing Education Seminar Teacher

Asociación de Psicología de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico

May 2008 - May 2008

Psychology, parapsychology

Co-taught with Carlos S. Alvarado, Ph.D., one-day seminar: “Psicología y parasicología: Introducción, Historia e Investigación.” (In Spanish: “Psychology and parapsychology: Introduction, History and Research.”)

Lyceum Instructor

Parapsychology Foundation, New York, United States

Jul 2000 - Feb 2003

parapsychology

Co-taught with Carlos S. Alvarado, Ph.D., four one-day seminars: “Introduction to the Scientific Study of Psychic Phenomena”; “Ghosts and Hauntings”; “Beyond the Body – Out-of-Body and Near-Death Experiences”; and “Parapsychology’s Forgotten Phenomena.”

Seminar Co-Instructor

Carlos Albizu University, Puerto Rico

Aug 2000 - Aug 2000

psychology anomalous exeriences

Co-taught with Carlos S. Alvarado, Ph.D., one-day seminar, “El Estudio Psicológico de los Fenómenos Parapsicológicos.” (In Spanish: “The Psychological Study of Parapsychological Phenomena”).

Summer Study Instructor

Rhine Research Center, North Carolina, United States

Jun 1983 - Jun 2000

parapychology, statistics, psychology anomalous experiences

(Formerly called the Institute for Parapsychology ) 1983-1993, and 2000: Lecturer in statistics, experimental methodology, history of parapsychology, and spontaneous case studies, Summer Study Program, 1985: Coordinator, Summer Study Program.

Instructor

Field Museum of Natural History, Illinois, United States

Jan 1981 - May 1982

parapsychology

Part-time adult education instructor (Course titles: “Parapsychology: Science or Superstition?”; “Ghosts, Poltergeists and Hauntings: Fact or Fiction?”).

Instructor

Harold Washington College, Illinois, United States

Sep 1981 - May 1982

parapsychology

Harold Washington College (formerly Loop College), Chicago, Illinois, USA. Part-time adult education instructor (Course titles: “Introduction to Parapsychology”; “Ghosts, Poltergeists & Hauntings”).

Instructor

Mundelein College, Illinois, United States

Sep 1977 - Aug 1980

parapsychology

Part-time adult education instructor (Course Title: “Introduction to Parapsychology”)

The Alvarado Zingrone Institute for Research and Education (AZIRE) founded to provide both education on the scientific study of seemingly psychic phenomena and resources for students and teachers looking for reliable information on the scientific side of parapsychology and the psychology of belief and experience. Located in Charlottesville, Virginia and in the Education Village in the Chilbo Community in Second Life. (The AZIRE is a project of Alvarado Consulting.)

January 2009 to Currently: 5-hour-a-week volunteer, website content development and maintenance, print process management and print page production and indexing. February 2003 through December 2008. Part-time Director of Publications on a contract basis through Alvarado Consulting. July 2000 to February 2003: Full-time on-site Director of Publications.

at the Division of Perceptual Studies in the Department of sychiatry; conducting grant-funded independent research into psychological correlates of claims of paranormal experiences

Self-owned with Dr. Carlos S. Alvarado: Research into psychological correlates of claims of paranormal experiences. (no longer in operation)

1986 to 1993: Visiting Scholar (volunteer position). 1983 to 1986: Full-time Research Fellow. Designed and implemented various experimental studies of ESP; conducted historical research into development of parapsychological terminology; conducted citation analysis study comparing male and female research output in two 10-year periods in the history of 20th-century parapsychology.

Ph.D.

in Psychology

University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Oct 1994 - Oct 2006

focused on the history of controversy in parapsychology using the tools of history and rhetoric of science and text-based discourse analysis

Doctoral Candidacy

History

Duke University, North Carolina, United States

Sep 1986 - May 1993

focused on the histories of science, and medicine, and on American social history

M.S.Ed.

in Higher Education

Northern Illinois University, Illinois, United States

Sep 1976 - Aug 1977

Focused on Community College education with a teaching specialty in psychology

B. A.

in Psychology

Mundelein College, Illinois, United States

Sep 1971 - Aug 1974

Honors in psychology with 15 undergraduate hours in scientific parapsychology

2006 to Currently: Full Member. 1983 to 2006: Associate Member. Member of Division 2, Society for the Teaching of Psychology, Division 5, Evaluation, Measurement & Statistics, Division 8, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Division 26, Society for the History of Psychology, and Division 30, Society of Psychological Hypnosis.

Parapsychological Association. 2003 to 2004, 2000 to 2001: President. 1997 to 2004: Member, Board of Directors. 1991 to 1999: Editor, of the association newsletter, PA News. 1993: Editor of the association proceedings, Research in Parapsychology.

1983-1990, 2009 to Currently. Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, Inc. (Formerly Academy of Religion and Psychical Research). 1985 to 1990: Member of the Board of Trustees.

Awarded two multi-year research grants into the psychology of seemingly psychic phenomena, with co-investigator Dr. Carlos S. Alvarado in 2006 and 2008

awarded research grant in 2009 for study of the out of body experience with co-investigator Dr. Carlos S. Alvarado

Awarded tuition support and research grants while completing doctoral research into the history of parapsychology

research grant and tuition support for doctoral research in the Department of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland

Research grants in 1990 and 1994, recipient of the Eileen J. Garrett Scholarship in 1998

C. S. Alvarado). Pleasurable Western adult near-death experiences: Zingrone, NL, & Alvarado, CS (2009). Features, circumstances, and incidence. In J. M. Holden, B. Greyson, & D. James (Eds.), The handbook of near-death experiences: Thirty years of investigation (pp. 17-40). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger/ABC-Clio.

Alvarado, CS & Zingrone, NL (2008). Ian Stevenson and the modern study of ESP experiences. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 22, 44-53.

Zingrone, NL, & Alvarado, CS. (2008). Out-of-body experiences and headaches: A research note. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 72, 107-110.