Chairman: Domestic & International Programs
Parapsychology Foundation, Inc.
228 East 71st Street
New York, NY 10021, USA
TEL: 1-212-628-1550
FAX: 1-212-628-1559
Email: alvarado@parapsychology.org

Carlos S. Alvarado, Ph.D., is a past president (1995) and President-Elect (2002-2003) of the Parapsychological Association. He has conducted research on the psychology and the features of out-of-body experiences (and other parapsychological phenomena) in Puerto Rico, Scotland and in the United States. Alvarado is also known for his reviews of the historical literature of the field. He is currently working at the Parapsychology Foundation, where he is the Chairman of Domestic and International Programs, the series editor of the Foundation's Parapsychological Monographs and the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Parapsychology.

Videos of Lectures by Carlos S. Alvarado

Selected publications
(2002). Dissociation in Britain During the Late Nineteenth Century: The Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1900. Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 3, 9-33. (PDF File)

(2001) Features of out-of-body experiences in relation to perceived closeness to death. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 189, 331-332.

(2000) Getting started in parapsychology: A brief overview of English-language materials. International Journal of Parapsychology, 11,199-211.

(2000) Out-of-body experiences. In E. Cardeña, S.J. Lynn, & S. Krippner (Eds.), Varieties of anomalous experiences (pp. 183-218). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

(1999). Apuntes para una introducción a la parapsicología [In Spanish: Notes for an introduction to parapsychology] New York: Parapsychology Foundation.

(1998-99) (First author, with N.L. Zingrone, & 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). (Second author, with N.L. Zingrone & 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). ESP and altered states of consciousness: An overview of conceptual and research trends. Journal of Parapsychology, 62, 27-63.

(1998). (First author, with N.L. Zingrone). Anomalías de interacción con el ambiente: El estudio de los fenómenos parapsicológicos [In Spanish: Anomalies of interaction with the environment: The study of parapsychological phenomena]. Revista Puertorriqueña de Psicología, 11, 99-147.

(1997) Mapping the characteristics of out-of-body experiences. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 91, 13-30.

(1996). Exploring the features of spontaneous psychic experiences. European Journal of Parapsychology, 12, 61-74.

(1992) The psychological approach to out-of-body experiences: A review of early and modern developments. Journal of Psychology, 126, 237-250.