Bruce Hunsberger
Biographic Data
| ID | 119000 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Hunsberger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Hunsberger |
| SIGNATURE | HUNSBERGER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1031 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Community and political involvement in adolescence: What distinguishes the activists from the uninvolved
What distinguishes adolescents who are active in community and political life from those who are not? In an attempt to answer this question, students in their last years of secondary school completed a measure of community and political activities, along with measures of parent and peer interactions, identity development, and adjustment. Cluster analysis of activities reported in the questionnaire identified 4 distinct groupings of adolescents: A…
Optimism as a Mediator of the Relation Between Perceived Parental Authoritativeness and Adjustment Among Adolescents: Finding the Sunny Side of the Street
Authoritative parenting has been associated with positive outcomes for children and adolescents, but less is known about the mechanisms responsible for such effects. Two longitudinal studies examined the hypothesis that the relation between authoritative parenting and adolescents’ adjustment is mediated by adolescents’ level of dispositional optimism. In Study 1, university students’ perceptions that their parents were authoritative predicted hig…
Adolescent Generativity: A Longitudinal Study of Two Possible Contexts for Learning Concern for Future Generations
The purpose of the present study was to investigate developmental pathways to Erikson's (1959) construct of generativity, defined as care and concern for the next generation and traditionally viewed as important for midlife adults, in a late adolescent sample. A sample of 198 adolescents was followed three times over a 6‐year period, from ages 17 to 23. Questionnaire measures of generative concern, parenting style, community involvement, and pers…
Religion, Meaning, and Prejudice
Links between religion and prejudice have been interpreted to suggest that religion can both reduce and exacerbate prejudice. Here, the analysis of religion as a meaning system illuminates how religion can affect intergroup attitudes. Traditional psychological perspectives on religion and prejudice are summarized, followed by a discussion of religion and prejudice in cross‐cultural and cross‐religious contexts, involving varying target groups. Ne…
Research: A Revised Religious Fundamentalism Scale: The Short and Sweet of It
Despite its relatively good psychometric properties and empirical validity, the 20-item Religious Fundamentalism scale developed by the authors has several problems. It does not measure all of the aspects of fundamentalism, as defined, as well as it might. And it could stand to be shorter. An item development program led to a 12-statement revision that is more internally consistent despite having broader coverage. As well, it is as reliable as th…
The psychology of religion: An Empirical Approach
"The authors synthesize classic and contemporary research on religious thought, belief, and behavior across the lifespan; the forms and meaning of religious experience; the social psychology of religious organizations; and connections to biology, morality, coping, and mental health. As in previous editions, the focus is on scientific work that is moving the psychology of religion into the mainstream of academic psychology, rather than broad inter…
A Longitudinal Analysis of Personal Values Socialization: Correlates of a Moral Self‐ Ideal in Late Adolescence
There has been considerable study of the development of moral reasoning in adolescence within the cognitive–developmental paradigm, but less empirical attention to the development of moral valuing and motivation. In a two‐year longitudinal study, we examined the correlates of high‐school students’ endorsement of explicitly moral values as ideals for the self. Those who reported being involved in community helping activities at age 17 were subsequ…
A Longitudinal Study of Religious Doubts in High School and Beyond: Relationships, Stability, and Searching for Answers
This questionnaire study of 939 senior high school students, and a follow-up of 336 of these people two years later, investigated a variety of issues related to religious doubts and their implications for adolescents' lives. Although average doubt levels were 'mild' as measured by the Religious Doubts scale, the greatest doubts were expressed based on religion's failure to make people 'better,' the claimed infallibility of scriptures, and pressur…
Religious Versus Nonreligious Socialization: Does Religious Background Have Implications for Adjustment
Two studies were carried out to assess possible links between religious and nonreligious socialization and adjustment. In Study 1, three questionnaires were administered to 216 students, before and during their first year at a small Canadian university. Comparisons were made among those raised in (a) "no religion," (b) mainline Protestant, (c) conservative Protestant, and (d) Catholic families. Our 11 measures of mental health and adjustment exhi…
Adolescent Identity Formation: Religious Exploration and Commitment
Two studies investigated links between adolescents' attempts to deal with religious issues, in particular, religious doubt and identity development. Identity status was measured by the Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status (Adams, Bennion, & Huh, 1989; Adams, Shea, & Fitch, 1979), which is based on crisis-exploration and commitment. Study 1 involved 132 university students, and Study 2 included 937 senior high school students. Identity achieve…
Thinking Ahead: Complexity of Expectations and the Transition to Parenthood
This study examined the integrative complexity of thinking in individuals making the transition to parenthood, and the relationship between complexity and adjustment during this period. Sixty‐nine couples were interviewed 3 months before their babies were born, and 6 months after the birth. The prenatal interview focused on individuals' expectations about what it would be like being a parent; the postnatal interview focused on individuals' actual…
Cognitive Complexity of Expectations and Adjustment to University in the First Year
Expectations about university and subsequent adjustment in the first year were examined in a longitudinal study of the transition to university. Two hundred and twenty-six students (158 females and 68 males) completed a preuniversity questionnaire in the summer prior to beginning university, and another questionnaire in February of their first year. The preuniversity questionnaire contained measures that assessed perceived stress and the amount a…
Social Support: Relations to Coping and Adjustment During the Transition to University in the People’s Republic of China
Life transitions, such as university attendance, entail the reconstruction of relations between the individual and the environment. This study aimed to explore how perceptions of social support changed across time during the first semester of university, and how social support, coping strategies, and adjustment were interrelated among 390 first-year students in Beijing, China. Results indicated that overall levels of social support among students…
Religious Orientation and Prejudice: The Role of Religious Proscription, Right-Wing
Religion and Prejudice in Ghana and Canada: Religious Fundamentalism, Right-Wing
Research has established that religious orientation (especially religious fundalnentalism), right-wing authoritarianism, and attitudes towards minority groups are interrelated (Altemeyer, 1996; Altelneyer & Hunsberger, 1992; Hunsberger, 1995, 1996). The present study attempted to address the lack of cross-cultural research on these is- sues, comparing Ghanaian and Canadian samples. The psychonetric properties of the scales used remained acceptabl…
Amazing Conversions: Why Some Turn to Faith and Others Abandon Religion
An Intergroup Perspective on Religion and Prejudice
Based on the reasoning that religious groups evidence intergroup processes that can create prejudice, two studies examined the relation between religiosity and attitudes toward religious and non-religious others. In both studies, among more religious individuals, attitudes toward religious others were very positive and attitudes toward non-religious others were quite negative. These relations emerged on all measures of traditional religiosity use…
Amazing Conversions: Why Some Turn to Faith and Others Abandon Religion
The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach
The Role of Parental Religious Fundamentalism and Right-Wing Authoritarianism in Child-Rearing Goals and Practices
Henry Danso, Bruce Hunsberger, Michael Pratt, The Role of Parental Religious Fundamentalism and Right-Wing Authoritarianism in Child-Rearing Goals and Practices, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Dec., 1997), pp. 496-511
Religious Fundamentalism, Right-Wing Authoritarianism, and Hostility Toward Homosexuals in Non-Christian Religious Groups
In this article, I extend the work of Altemeyer and Hunsberger (1992) on religious fundamentalism to several non-Christian groups. The psychometric properties of the Religious Fundamentalism scale remained strong among small, self-selected samples of adults from Muslim, Hindu, and Jewish backgrounds. Also, as in past research with persons from Christian backgrounds, correlations from .42 to .74 emerged among scores on the Religious Fundamentalism…
Belief and Unbelief (Book)
Religious Fundamentalism and Religious Doubts: Content, Connections, and Complexity of Thinking
Sixty-eight university students were interviewed about their own and others' per- ceived religious doubts. These young adults included 33 high and 35 low religious fundamentalists, drawn from a larger survey study of 348 students. Content analyses of self-reported religious doubts suggested that low fundamentalists were more likely to question the underpinnings of religion, while high fundamentalists' doubts seemed to focus on concerns that other…
Religious Orthodoxy and the Complexity of Thought about Religious and Nonreligious Issues
Two studies examined the relationship between religious orthodoxy and the complexity of thinking about religious and nonreligious issues. In both studies, participants who were high or low in religious orthodoxy wrote a paragraph outlining their thoughts about a religious issue (life after death in Study 1; existence of God in Study 2) and/or a nonreligious issue (capital punishment in Study 1; free trade between Canada and the U.S. in Study 2). …
Religion and Prejudice: The Role of Religious Fundamentalism, Quest, and Right‐Wing Authoritarianism
Does religion contribute to, or inhibit, prejudice? Although major world religions espouse tolerance and love toward others, empirical evidence provides little support for the effectiveness of such religious teachings, and a considerable body of research suggests that, at a general (and simplistic) level, religion and prejudice are positively correlated. Suggestions that this relationship is actually curvilinear and possibly a result of differenc…
Authoritarianism, Religious Fundamentalism, Quest, and Prejudice
Five studies of university students and their parents were carried out to investigate the relationships among right-wing authoritarianism, various indices of religious orientation, and prejudice. Measures of religious fundamentalism, and religious quest, developed for this research, proved to be psychometrically sound, and were good discriminators between prejudiced and unprejudiced persons, across a variety of different measures of prejudice and…
Religion, Meaning, and Prejudice
Links between religion and prejudice have been interpreted to suggest that religion can both reduce and exacerbate prejudice. Here, the analysis of religion as a meaning system illuminates how religion can affect intergroup attitudes. Traditional psychological perspectives on religion and prejudice are summarized, followed by a discussion of religion and prejudice in cross‐cultural and cross‐religious contexts, involving varying target groups. Ne…
Research: A Revised Religious Fundamentalism Scale: The Short and Sweet of It
Despite its relatively good psychometric properties and empirical validity, the 20-item Religious Fundamentalism scale developed by the authors has several problems. It does not measure all of the aspects of fundamentalism, as defined, as well as it might. And it could stand to be shorter. An item development program led to a 12-statement revision that is more internally consistent despite having broader coverage. As well, it is as reliable as th…
Religious Fundamentalism, Right-Wing Authoritarianism, and Hostility Toward Homosexuals in Non-Christian Religious Groups
In this article, I extend the work of Altemeyer and Hunsberger (1992) on religious fundamentalism to several non-Christian groups. The psychometric properties of the Religious Fundamentalism scale remained strong among small, self-selected samples of adults from Muslim, Hindu, and Jewish backgrounds. Also, as in past research with persons from Christian backgrounds, correlations from .42 to .74 emerged among scores on the Religious Fundamentalism…
Religion and Prejudice: The Role of Religious Fundamentalism, Quest, and Right‐Wing Authoritarianism
Does religion contribute to, or inhibit, prejudice? Although major world religions espouse tolerance and love toward others, empirical evidence provides little support for the effectiveness of such religious teachings, and a considerable body of research suggests that, at a general (and simplistic) level, religion and prejudice are positively correlated. Suggestions that this relationship is actually curvilinear and possibly a result of differenc…
Community and political involvement in adolescence: What distinguishes the activists from the uninvolved
What distinguishes adolescents who are active in community and political life from those who are not? In an attempt to answer this question, students in their last years of secondary school completed a measure of community and political activities, along with measures of parent and peer interactions, identity development, and adjustment. Cluster analysis of activities reported in the questionnaire identified 4 distinct groupings of adolescents: A…
Religion and Prejudice in Ghana and Canada: Religious Fundamentalism, Right-Wing
Research has established that religious orientation (especially religious fundalnentalism), right-wing authoritarianism, and attitudes towards minority groups are interrelated (Altemeyer, 1996; Altelneyer & Hunsberger, 1992; Hunsberger, 1995, 1996). The present study attempted to address the lack of cross-cultural research on these is- sues, comparing Ghanaian and Canadian samples. The psychonetric properties of the scales used remained acceptabl…
Religious Orientation and Prejudice: The Role of Religious Proscription, Right-Wing
An Intergroup Perspective on Religion and Prejudice
Based on the reasoning that religious groups evidence intergroup processes that can create prejudice, two studies examined the relation between religiosity and attitudes toward religious and non-religious others. In both studies, among more religious individuals, attitudes toward religious others were very positive and attitudes toward non-religious others were quite negative. These relations emerged on all measures of traditional religiosity use…
Religious Fundamentalism and Religious Doubts: Content, Connections, and Complexity of Thinking
Sixty-eight university students were interviewed about their own and others' per- ceived religious doubts. These young adults included 33 high and 35 low religious fundamentalists, drawn from a larger survey study of 348 students. Content analyses of self-reported religious doubts suggested that low fundamentalists were more likely to question the underpinnings of religion, while high fundamentalists' doubts seemed to focus on concerns that other…
Religious Socialization, Apostasy, and the Impact of Family Background
A huit cent trente-six etudiants en psychologie de l'Universite de New South Wales a Sydney, Australie, a ete remis un questionnaire de 15 pages portant principalement sur l'orientation religieuse et ses antecedents. Une analyse de facteurs proposee par Hunsberger (1980), en relation a l'apostasie, est substantiellement confirmee. Il semble qu'une orientation intellectuelle et l'importance donnee a la religion dans le foyer ou le jeune a ete elev…
Social Support: Relations to Coping and Adjustment During the Transition to University in the People’s Republic of China
Life transitions, such as university attendance, entail the reconstruction of relations between the individual and the environment. This study aimed to explore how perceptions of social support changed across time during the first semester of university, and how social support, coping strategies, and adjustment were interrelated among 390 first-year students in Beijing, China. Results indicated that overall levels of social support among students…
Adolescent Generativity: A Longitudinal Study of Two Possible Contexts for Learning Concern for Future Generations
The purpose of the present study was to investigate developmental pathways to Erikson's (1959) construct of generativity, defined as care and concern for the next generation and traditionally viewed as important for midlife adults, in a late adolescent sample. A sample of 198 adolescents was followed three times over a 6‐year period, from ages 17 to 23. Questionnaire measures of generative concern, parenting style, community involvement, and pers…
The Role of Parental Religious Fundamentalism and Right-Wing Authoritarianism in Child-Rearing Goals and Practices
Henry Danso, Bruce Hunsberger, Michael Pratt, The Role of Parental Religious Fundamentalism and Right-Wing Authoritarianism in Child-Rearing Goals and Practices, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Dec., 1997), pp. 496-511
A Longitudinal Analysis of Personal Values Socialization: Correlates of a Moral Self‐ Ideal in Late Adolescence
There has been considerable study of the development of moral reasoning in adolescence within the cognitive–developmental paradigm, but less empirical attention to the development of moral valuing and motivation. In a two‐year longitudinal study, we examined the correlates of high‐school students’ endorsement of explicitly moral values as ideals for the self. Those who reported being involved in community helping activities at age 17 were subsequ…
Adolescent Identity Formation: Religious Exploration and Commitment
Two studies investigated links between adolescents' attempts to deal with religious issues, in particular, religious doubt and identity development. Identity status was measured by the Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status (Adams, Bennion, & Huh, 1989; Adams, Shea, & Fitch, 1979), which is based on crisis-exploration and commitment. Study 1 involved 132 university students, and Study 2 included 937 senior high school students. Identity achieve…
A Unidimensional Measure of Christian Orthodoxy
The conceptualization, development and cross-validation of a 24-item Christian Orthodoxy Scale is described. Eight different studies are involved, which include samples of Canadian high school students, university students, and the parents of university students, as well as a sample of Australian university students. Evidence is presented that the scale is unidimensional, reliable and valid. Factor analyses have consistently revealed a single fac…
Cognitive Complexity of Expectations and Adjustment to University in the First Year
Expectations about university and subsequent adjustment in the first year were examined in a longitudinal study of the transition to university. Two hundred and twenty-six students (158 females and 68 males) completed a preuniversity questionnaire in the summer prior to beginning university, and another questionnaire in February of their first year. The preuniversity questionnaire contained measures that assessed perceived stress and the amount a…
A Short Version of the Christian Orthodoxy Scale
This study describes the development of a short (6-item) version of the 24-item Christian Orthodoxy scale (Fullerton & Hunsberger, 1982). Data from five studies, involving 1,725 participants, indicate that the Short Christian Orthodoxy (SCO) scale has strong psychometric properties which approach those of the longer original version of the scale. The SCO is apparently relatively unidimensional, with Cronbach's alpha of about .94, and inter-item c…
A Longitudinal Study of Religious Doubts in High School and Beyond: Relationships, Stability, and Searching for Answers
This questionnaire study of 939 senior high school students, and a follow-up of 336 of these people two years later, investigated a variety of issues related to religious doubts and their implications for adolescents' lives. Although average doubt levels were 'mild' as measured by the Religious Doubts scale, the greatest doubts were expressed based on religion's failure to make people 'better,' the claimed infallibility of scriptures, and pressur…
Political Roles and the Complexity of Political Rhetoric
This research examined the complexity of political rhetoric of politicians in a policy-making and opposition role. Speeches by members of the government and opposition parties in the Canadian House of Commons from 1948 to 1988 were scored in terms of their integrative complexity, following the methods of Suedfeld and Tetlock (see Baker-Brown et al., 1986). Integratively complex communications are characterized by a recognition that more than one …
Apostasy: A Social Learning Perspective
Religious Versus Nonreligious Socialization: Does Religious Background Have Implications for Adjustment
Two studies were carried out to assess possible links between religious and nonreligious socialization and adjustment. In Study 1, three questionnaires were administered to 216 students, before and during their first year at a small Canadian university. Comparisons were made among those raised in (a) "no religion," (b) mainline Protestant, (c) conservative Protestant, and (d) Catholic families. Our 11 measures of mental health and adjustment exhi…
A Reexamination of the Antecedents of Apostasy
Reflections on Religion: Aging, Belief Orthodoxy, and Interpersonal Conflict in the Complexity of Adult Thinking about Religious Issues
Michael W. Pratt, Bruce Hunsberger, S. Mark Pancer, Don Roth, Reflections on Religion: Aging, Belief Orthodoxy, and Interpersonal Conflict in the Complexity of Adult Thinking about Religious Issues, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Dec., 1992), pp. 514-522
Background Religious Denomination, Parental Emphasis, and the Religious Orientation of University Students
Bruce Hunsberger, Background Religious Denomination, Parental Emphasis, and the Religious Orientation of University Students, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Sep., 1976), pp. 251-255
The Religiosity of College Students: Stability and Change over Years at University
Two studies were carried out to investigate the frequently reported tendency for university students to become less orthodox in their religious beliefs and practices over the course of their college years. The first was primarily a cross-sectional study of 457 University of Manitoba students, while the second was a two and a half year longitudinal investigation of 212 Wilfrid Laurier University students. The single consistent finding in these pro…
Sources of 'Psychology of Religion' Journal Articles: 1950-1974
Recently, Capps, Rambo and Ransohoff (1976a) published the most thorough bibliography available regarding the of religion, including references to 858 books and 1869 articles. In an article based on this bibliography, Capps, Ransohoff, and Rambo (1976b) analyzed their bibliography in order to assess trends in the psychology of religion between 1950 and 1974 with respect to frequency of articles published in various categories. However, their bibl…
A Reexamination of the Antecedents of Apostasy
Psychoanalysis and Religion: A Bibliography
A Unidimensional Measure of Christian Orthodoxy
The conceptualization, development and cross-validation of a 24-item Christian Orthodoxy Scale is described. Eight different studies are involved, which include samples of Canadian high school students, university students, and the parents of university students, as well as a sample of Australian university students. Evidence is presented that the scale is unidimensional, reliable and valid. Factor analyses have consistently revealed a single fac…
Experimenter Effects in Studies of Religious Attitudes
Apostasy: A Social Learning Perspective
Religious Socialization, Apostasy, and the Impact of Family Background
A huit cent trente-six etudiants en psychologie de l'Universite de New South Wales a Sydney, Australie, a ete remis un questionnaire de 15 pages portant principalement sur l'orientation religieuse et ses antecedents. Une analyse de facteurs proposee par Hunsberger (1980), en relation a l'apostasie, est substantiellement confirmee. Il semble qu'une orientation intellectuelle et l'importance donnee a la religion dans le foyer ou le jeune a ete elev…
Parent-University Student Agreement on Religious and Nonreligious Issues
Some controversy has evolved with respect to the supposed existence of a gap, a kind of organized rebellion against parents by their teenagers, one component of which supposedly involves considerable discrepancy between teenagers' attitudes and those of their parents. Some researchers have concluded that there is in fact a generation gap (Friedenberg, 1969; Thomas, 1974); others that parents and children tend to agree at least moderately on a var…
The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach
More on the Dimensionality of Christian Orthodoxy
Recently Lindsey, Sirotnik and Heeren (1986) have attempted to reassess the issue of unidimensionality with respect to the Christian Orthodoxy (CO) scale (Fullerton & Hunsberger, 1982). They concluded that their data indicated two separate dimensions within the CO scale. These are conceptualized as a traditional form of church and as a rationalized form of modern religious orthodoxy (328). Lindsey et aL are to be applauded for their attempt to as…
Clergy Counseling Practices, Christian Orthodoxy and Problem Solving Styles
This survey study of 127 male clergy from 10 Protestant denominations in Ontario investigated counseling practices, religious orthodoxy, problem solving styles and related variables, in order to increase the understanding of clergy as counselors. Results confirmed that clergy spend a significant amount of time counseling a wide variety of problems, and that their views of mental illness and their approaches to counseling are related to their reli…
A Short Version of the Christian Orthodoxy Scale
This study describes the development of a short (6-item) version of the 24-item Christian Orthodoxy scale (Fullerton & Hunsberger, 1982). Data from five studies, involving 1,725 participants, indicate that the Short Christian Orthodoxy (SCO) scale has strong psychometric properties which approach those of the longer original version of the scale. The SCO is apparently relatively unidimensional, with Cronbach's alpha of about .94, and inter-item c…
Reasoning about the self and relationships in maturity: An integrative complexity analysis of individual differences
This study examined age (35-55 versus 65-85), gender, and self-concept-orientation differences in reasoning about the self, relationships, and morality, on the basis of the theorizing of Gilligan (1982). Participants were interviewed about general relationship issues, a specific relationship, and about the self. Reasoning was scored for integrative complexity (Suedfeld & Tetlock, 1977). Life experience measures and the standard Kohlberg justice r…
Christian Orthodoxy and Victim Derogation: The Impact of the Salience of Religion
James A. Lea, Bruce E. Hunsberger, Christian Orthodoxy and Victim Derogation: The Impact of the Salience of Religion, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Dec., 1990), pp. 512-518
Making Life Complicated: Prompting the Use of Integratively Complex Thinking
Two studies are reported which assess the proclivity of individuals to increase the integrative complexity of social, moral, or religious thinking when prompted to do so. We also examined the influence on complexity of topic area and respondents' religiosity. In both studies significant increases in complexity were obtained when participants were prompted to differentiate and integrate material, suggesting that an important distinction needs to b…
Political Roles and the Complexity of Political Rhetoric
This research examined the complexity of political rhetoric of politicians in a policy-making and opposition role. Speeches by members of the government and opposition parties in the Canadian House of Commons from 1948 to 1988 were scored in terms of their integrative complexity, following the methods of Suedfeld and Tetlock (see Baker-Brown et al., 1986). Integratively complex communications are characterized by a recognition that more than one …
Authoritarianism, Religious Fundamentalism, Quest, and Prejudice
Five studies of university students and their parents were carried out to investigate the relationships among right-wing authoritarianism, various indices of religious orientation, and prejudice. Measures of religious fundamentalism, and religious quest, developed for this research, proved to be psychometrically sound, and were good discriminators between prejudiced and unprejudiced persons, across a variety of different measures of prejudice and…
Reflections on Religion: Aging, Belief Orthodoxy, and Interpersonal Conflict in the Complexity of Adult Thinking about Religious Issues
Michael W. Pratt, Bruce Hunsberger, S. Mark Pancer, Don Roth, Reflections on Religion: Aging, Belief Orthodoxy, and Interpersonal Conflict in the Complexity of Adult Thinking about Religious Issues, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Dec., 1992), pp. 514-522
Reply to Gorsuch
This is a response to Gorsuch's critique of the Altemeyer and Hunsberger (1992) article"Authoritarianism, Religious Fundamentalism, Quest, and Prejudice." Analysis of church attendance data from the original study indicated that there was no evidence that frequent church attenders were less prejudiced, We disagree that left-wing authoritarianism is a well-established fact. Furthermore, the recommendation that we use the Dogmatism scale to measure…
Thinking about parenting: Reasoning about developmental issues across the life span
This research examined reasoning about developmental problems over the life span and related it to cognitive style and parenting behaviors. In Study 1, we investigated 35 children's and adults' concepts of development (COD) stages (A. Sameroff & L. Feil, 1985). As hypothesized, stage scores were positively related to age and to 2 other developmental indexes. In Study 2, we observed 24 parents and their 5th-grade children. COD stage scores were po…
Religious Fundamentalism and Integrative Complexity of Thought: A Relationship for Existential Content Only
Bruce Hunsberger, Michael Pratt, S. Mark Pancer, Religious Fundamentalism and Integrative Complexity of Thought: A Relationship for Existential Content Only?, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Dec., 1994), pp. 335-346
Religious Orthodoxy and the Complexity of Thought about Religious and Nonreligious Issues
Two studies examined the relationship between religious orthodoxy and the complexity of thinking about religious and nonreligious issues. In both studies, participants who were high or low in religious orthodoxy wrote a paragraph outlining their thoughts about a religious issue (life after death in Study 1; existence of God in Study 2) and/or a nonreligious issue (capital punishment in Study 1; free trade between Canada and the U.S. in Study 2). …
Religion and Prejudice: The Role of Religious Fundamentalism, Quest, and Right‐Wing Authoritarianism
Does religion contribute to, or inhibit, prejudice? Although major world religions espouse tolerance and love toward others, empirical evidence provides little support for the effectiveness of such religious teachings, and a considerable body of research suggests that, at a general (and simplistic) level, religion and prejudice are positively correlated. Suggestions that this relationship is actually curvilinear and possibly a result of differenc…
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