Raymond F Paloutzian
Biographic Data
| ID | 267818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raymond F Paloutzian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raymond F |
| FAMILY NAME | Paloutzian |
| SIGNATURE | PALOUTZIAN R F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Westmont College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2601-3742 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 169 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 36 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Perceived hypocrisy and deconversion in adolescents. The mediating role of irrational beliefs and identity styles
Deconversion is a biographical change in which one goes from claiming adherence to a religion to departing from it. A meaning system model can help us understand the processes through which deconversion occurs. Drawing on that framework, we explored how perceiving hypocrisy in one’s religious setting influences adolescent deconversion. Irrational beliefs and identity styles of adolescents were examined as potential mediators of this relationship.…
The Spiritual Well-Being Scale in the Polish Catholic Setting
The population of Poland could be of particular interest to researchers studying religion and spirituality. Catholicism has played a significant role in shaping the country’s culture, history, and tradition and is considered a national religion. More recently, however, the processes of moving away from regular participation in religious services and loosening ties with the institution of the Catholic Church are marked (Polish Public Opinion Resea…
Human interaction with the divine, the sacred, and the deceased
Humans have likely been attempting to communicate with entities believed to exist, such as the divine, sacred beings, and deceased people, since the dawn of time. Across cultures and countries, many believe that interaction with the immaterial world is not only possible but a frequent experience. Most religious traditions across the globe focus many rituals and activities around prayer to an entity deemed divine or sacred. Additionally, many peop…
Stuart (Stu) Oskamp (1930–2022)
This article memorializes Stuart (Stu) Oskamp (1930-2022). Professor Oskamp, an eminent social psychologist, made enduring contributions by applying social psychological knowledge to real-world problems, especially to the sustainability of the earth. Stu taught at Claremont Graduate University (CGU) from 1960 to 2000. While there he served as chair of the psychology department, chair of the entire graduate faculty, acting director of the School o…
Psychological and spiritual factors affecting well-being among military personnel engaged in remote combat
The strongest predictors of distress were lack of meaning and feeling overextended at work. Emotional exhaustion and low existential well-being identified distressed crewmembers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Spiritual Coping, Emotional Responses to Existential Challenges, and Character Strengths
Over recent decades, massive natural disasters have increased in intensity. A 40-year literature review underscored the centrality of spirituality in such disasters but called for further scale development and studies further exploring the role of personality traits. As a response, the current study (1) validated a revised Using Private Prayer for Coping (UPPC-R) scale using data (N = 566) from Category 5 Hurricanes Maria and Michael, and (2) exa…
Faith Factors, Character Strengths, and Depression following Hurricane Michael
Natural disasters have increased exponentially in recent decades, imposing existential threats to humans. Yet, surprisingly little research has explored the role of religion and spirituality (R/S) and transcendence-related character strengths in post-disaster depression. Using data (N = 491) from victims of Category 5 Hurricane Michael, this study examined whether R/S factors and character strengths helped to buffer against post-disaster depressi…
Scholarly Values, Methods, and Evidence in the Academic Study of Religion
The Values in Scholarship on Religion ( VISOR ) project collected data on the preferred methods and values of scholars in the academic study of religion. This dataset supports comparisons between members of the American Academy of Religion ( AAR ) and partner organizations, such as the North American Association for the Study of Religion ( NAASR ), as well as members of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion ( SSSR ). The AAR -partner s…
Processes of Believing, Mental Abnormalities, and Other Matters of the Mind
Two categories of mental events – ecstatic or indescribable religious revelations and bizarre beliefs or behavior with related mental abnormalities – have been compared and contrasted in order to understand whether they are manifestations of different basic neural and psychological processes, or fundamentally the same. In popular terms, such comparisons point to the issue of the relationship between being religious and being mentally ill. McCaule…
Is the psychology of religiousness and spirituality a science? Yes
The psychology of religion and spirituality
Perceived spiritual support counteracts the traumatic impact of extreme disasters
The findings highlight the function of PSS in survival. PSSS-S1 and -S2 are adequate measures for rapid and cross-cultural data collection in extreme disasters. The differential associations of PSS and moderators with the 2 outcomes can be interpreted in light of 2 forms of well-being, which may have implications for theory, research, and practice in trauma psychology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
The process of believing and psychiatric symptoms
Some psychiatric symptoms and manifestations of psychological disorders look superficially similar to emotions, thought processes, and behaviors evident in healthy people in everyday life. They are
What Do Religion Scholars Really Want? Scholarly Values in the Scientific Study of Religion
This article presents selected findings of the Values in Scholarship on Religion (VISOR) project. Conversations about the values and norms that ought to shape the academic study of religion are quite common but typically based on anecdotal evidence and personal experience. The goal of VISOR was to gather data that could ground debates about the values that scholars of religion prize. Here, we present statistical analyses of VISOR data that shed l…
The Spiritual Well-Being Scale
Recentemente, o estudo das relações entre religião e saúde tem se expandido para incluir o estudo das relações entre espiritualidade e saúde. "Espiritualidade" é normalmente considerado como sendo, entre os dois, o termo mais inclusivo. Entrementes, o conceito de bem-estar espiritual (SWB – spiritual well- being ) tem sido invocado para refletir a auto-percepção de bem-estar em termos do que a própria pessoa entende como sendo o sentido de "espir…
Relations between Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Devotional Practices and Implicit and Explicit Anthropomorphic Reasoning about Kṛṣṇa
Employing a narrative comprehension task procedure, this study tests the hypothesis that engagement in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava religious practices, which are aimed at cultivating a personal relationship with the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa, predict increased implicit attribution of anthropomorphic properties to him. Contrary to our hypothesis, multiple regression analyses of data from 184 native Krishna devotees in West Bengal, India, indicated that increased eng…
Psychology of Religion in Global Perspective
From initial beginnings at the dawn of modern psychology about 120 years ago, the psychology of religion developed slowly during the 20th century, increasing at a modest pace by 2000; but strikingly so since 9/11. Psychological research on religiousness has been transformed from a small subfield of interest to only a few into a topic of broad interest within general psychology including the neurocognitive, developmental-personality-clinical, and …
Invitation to the Psychology of Religion, Third Edition
Religiousness and Spirituality
Notes1. A vote was taken twice. In 2004, greater than 50% favored the name change; in 2011, greater than 2/3 favored it, which was the margin required by divisional bylaws for a change in its name. One of the authors voted for, and one voted against, the name change.2. The present discussion is with reference to Western, especially American, contexts. Less was known about the issues in question in other areas, thus these remarks could not automat…
Religions, meaning making, and basic needs
Laurence Binet Brown (1927–2011)
Forgiveness and Reconciliation
xxii, 303 p. : 25 cm
ISI and Impact Factor
I am pleased to announce that Taylor & Francis/Routledge, the publisher of The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion (IJPR), received confirmation that IJPR is now in the Institute f
The Psychology of Religion
This chapter discusses progress in the psychology of religion by highlighting its rapid growth during the past 25 years. Recent conceptual and empirical developments are described, with an emphasis on the cognitive and affective basis of religious experience within personality and social psychology. Religion and spirituality as domains of study, as well as being common and important process variables that touch a large portion of human experience…
Religious Conversion and Personality Change
The question of whether religious conversion causes changes in someone's personality is examined in light of two bodies of literature-the research on personality change and the research on conversion. When the theory and research on personality change is applied to the question of whether conversion causes such change, the answer depends on what level of personality is of concern. Research on the relation between religious conversion and a variet…
The Psychology of Religion
This chapter discusses progress in the psychology of religion by highlighting its rapid growth during the past 25 years. Recent conceptual and empirical developments are described, with an emphasis on the cognitive and affective basis of religious experience within personality and social psychology. Religion and spirituality as domains of study, as well as being common and important process variables that touch a large portion of human experience…
Religious Conversion and Personality Change
The question of whether religious conversion causes changes in someone's personality is examined in light of two bodies of literature-the research on personality change and the research on conversion. When the theory and research on personality change is applied to the question of whether conversion causes such change, the answer depends on what level of personality is of concern. Research on the relation between religious conversion and a variet…
Introduction
That religious belief and behavior have far‐reaching influences on personal and social life, in both beneficial and deleterious ways, is self‐evident. The purpose of the present volume is to examine religious influences on a variety of aspects of well‐being, broadly defined to include both personal and societal levels of analysis. Religion and well‐being are both multifaceted constructs, and the empirical relationships between them prove to be hi…
Purpose in life and value changes following conversion
The Utility of the Religion-as-Schema Model
McIntosh's proposal to conceive of religion as a schema is examined in light of two levels at which a theory can be considered useful: (a) as an idea that integrates previous views of religion into one overriding theory, thus not negating earlier views but making them obsolete, and (b) as an addition to already existing views, thereby allowing us to generate research questions not previously stated. Schema theory could contribute to the field of …
What Do Religion Scholars Really Want? Scholarly Values in the Scientific Study of Religion
This article presents selected findings of the Values in Scholarship on Religion (VISOR) project. Conversations about the values and norms that ought to shape the academic study of religion are quite common but typically based on anecdotal evidence and personal experience. The goal of VISOR was to gather data that could ground debates about the values that scholars of religion prize. Here, we present statistical analyses of VISOR data that shed l…
Relations between Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Devotional Practices and Implicit and Explicit Anthropomorphic Reasoning about Kṛṣṇa
Employing a narrative comprehension task procedure, this study tests the hypothesis that engagement in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava religious practices, which are aimed at cultivating a personal relationship with the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa, predict increased implicit attribution of anthropomorphic properties to him. Contrary to our hypothesis, multiple regression analyses of data from 184 native Krishna devotees in West Bengal, India, indicated that increased eng…
The Role of Emotional Feelings
Two divergent views regarding the role of emotional feelings exist among psychologists and Christians. These are that (a) behavior should follow from and be consistent with feelings, and (b) feelings are primarily reactions to behavior. A case of a male suffering from cyclic negative and positive emotional states as a consequence of deviant behavior and alternating comparison groups is analyzed from the perspectives of a cognitive consistency pri…
Conversion Experience, Belief System, and Personal and Ethical Attitudes
Two studies assessed the relation between type of religious belief system (“ethical” vs. “born again” Christianity), type of conversion experience (sudden vs. gradual vs. unconscious), and four attitudinal dependent variables: the Purpose in Life Test, Social Interest Scale, Religious Orientation Scale, and Dogmatism. In Study 1, 84 college students served as subjects. In Study 2, 177 adults of varying ages served as subjects. The same basic patt…
Note on the Attribution and Reinforcement Analyses of Altruism
The attribution of an altruistic motive occurs when we observe prosocial behavior performed in the apparent absence of external controlling contingencies. The process by which this occurs is described, and an attribution analysis of the good Samaritan parable is presented. The limits of the reinforcement analysis of prosocial behavior are discussed, with emphasis on the difficulties inherent in resorting to hypothetical internal reinforcers
Purpose in life and value changes following conversion
The Rediscovery of Inner Experience
Relating Theologies and Belief Systems to Scientific Psychology
Recent attempts to relate theologies and belief systems to psychological concepts and research are based on three basic methodologies: (a) Documenting a parallel between psychological and theological concerns, (b) using religious belief and behavior as variables in basic psychological research, (c) suggesting theological reality as part of the process that accounts for religious experience. These fundamental approaches underlie both the articles …
Norms for the Spiritual Weil-Being Scale
As part of the growing interest in quality of life and subjective well-being, the Spiritual Well-Being Scale was constructed to measure the spiritual dimension. Research has shown good reliability for the scale and has provided encouraging support for its validity. It indicates well-being in a variety of spheres, including physical and mental health, psychological adjustment, and assertiveness. However, no norms have been published and little des…
Handbook of Religious Conversion (Book)
(1994). Handbook of Religious Conversion (Book) The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 51-53
The Utility of the Religion-as-Schema Model
McIntosh's proposal to conceive of religion as a schema is examined in light of two levels at which a theory can be considered useful: (a) as an idea that integrates previous views of religion into one overriding theory, thus not negating earlier views but making them obsolete, and (b) as an addition to already existing views, thereby allowing us to generate research questions not previously stated. Schema theory could contribute to the field of …
Introduction
That religious belief and behavior have far‐reaching influences on personal and social life, in both beneficial and deleterious ways, is self‐evident. The purpose of the present volume is to examine religious influences on a variety of aspects of well‐being, broadly defined to include both personal and societal levels of analysis. Religion and well‐being are both multifaceted constructs, and the empirical relationships between them prove to be hi…
Understanding Religious Conversion (Book)
Religious Conversion and Personality Change
The question of whether religious conversion causes changes in someone's personality is examined in light of two bodies of literature-the research on personality change and the research on conversion. When the theory and research on personality change is applied to the question of whether conversion causes such change, the answer depends on what level of personality is of concern. Research on the relation between religious conversion and a variet…
The Psychology of Religion
This chapter discusses progress in the psychology of religion by highlighting its rapid growth during the past 25 years. Recent conceptual and empirical developments are described, with an emphasis on the cognitive and affective basis of religious experience within personality and social psychology. Religion and spirituality as domains of study, as well as being common and important process variables that touch a large portion of human experience…
Forgiveness and Reconciliation
xxii, 303 p. : 25 cm
ISI and Impact Factor
I am pleased to announce that Taylor & Francis/Routledge, the publisher of The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion (IJPR), received confirmation that IJPR is now in the Institute f
Religions, meaning making, and basic needs
Laurence Binet Brown (1927–2011)
Religiousness and Spirituality
Notes1. A vote was taken twice. In 2004, greater than 50% favored the name change; in 2011, greater than 2/3 favored it, which was the margin required by divisional bylaws for a change in its name. One of the authors voted for, and one voted against, the name change.2. The present discussion is with reference to Western, especially American, contexts. Less was known about the issues in question in other areas, thus these remarks could not automat…
The Spiritual Well-Being Scale
Recentemente, o estudo das relações entre religião e saúde tem se expandido para incluir o estudo das relações entre espiritualidade e saúde. "Espiritualidade" é normalmente considerado como sendo, entre os dois, o termo mais inclusivo. Entrementes, o conceito de bem-estar espiritual (SWB – spiritual well- being ) tem sido invocado para refletir a auto-percepção de bem-estar em termos do que a própria pessoa entende como sendo o sentido de "espir…
Relations between Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Devotional Practices and Implicit and Explicit Anthropomorphic Reasoning about Kṛṣṇa
Employing a narrative comprehension task procedure, this study tests the hypothesis that engagement in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava religious practices, which are aimed at cultivating a personal relationship with the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa, predict increased implicit attribution of anthropomorphic properties to him. Contrary to our hypothesis, multiple regression analyses of data from 184 native Krishna devotees in West Bengal, India, indicated that increased eng…
Psychology of Religion in Global Perspective
From initial beginnings at the dawn of modern psychology about 120 years ago, the psychology of religion developed slowly during the 20th century, increasing at a modest pace by 2000; but strikingly so since 9/11. Psychological research on religiousness has been transformed from a small subfield of interest to only a few into a topic of broad interest within general psychology including the neurocognitive, developmental-personality-clinical, and …
Invitation to the Psychology of Religion, Third Edition
The process of believing and psychiatric symptoms
Some psychiatric symptoms and manifestations of psychological disorders look superficially similar to emotions, thought processes, and behaviors evident in healthy people in everyday life. They are
What Do Religion Scholars Really Want? Scholarly Values in the Scientific Study of Religion
This article presents selected findings of the Values in Scholarship on Religion (VISOR) project. Conversations about the values and norms that ought to shape the academic study of religion are quite common but typically based on anecdotal evidence and personal experience. The goal of VISOR was to gather data that could ground debates about the values that scholars of religion prize. Here, we present statistical analyses of VISOR data that shed l…
Processes of Believing, Mental Abnormalities, and Other Matters of the Mind
Two categories of mental events – ecstatic or indescribable religious revelations and bizarre beliefs or behavior with related mental abnormalities – have been compared and contrasted in order to understand whether they are manifestations of different basic neural and psychological processes, or fundamentally the same. In popular terms, such comparisons point to the issue of the relationship between being religious and being mentally ill. McCaule…
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