anomalistic

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Christopher French is a professor of psychology and head of the anomalistic psychology research unit at Goldsmiths, University of London.

From The Guardian

Chris French, the head of anomalistic psychology research at Goldsmiths, University of London, uses Hynek’s “close encounters” scale to discuss psychological phenomena that can explain such experiences.

From Washington Post

Still, the best podcast hosts are ninjas when it comes to sniffing out expertise from all manner of refreshingly unlikely people—professors of anomalistic psychology, ace comedy showrunners, Long Island car salesmen—and rendering it not just broadly intelligible but emotionally gripping.

From Slate

Anom′alous, irregular: deviating from rule.—Anomalistic year, the interval that elapses between two successive passages of the earth through its perihelion, or point of nearest approach to the sun = 365 days 6 hr.

From Project Gutenberg

Kugler8 that the various periods underlying their lunar predictions were identical with those heretofore believed to have been independently arrived at by Hipparchus, who accordingly must be held to have borrowed from Chaldaea the lengths of the synodic, sidereal, anomalistic and draconitic months.

From Project Gutenberg