Joshua Wilt
Biographic Data
| ID | 4235453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Wilt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilt |
| SIGNATURE | WILT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Case Western Reserve University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Seeing oneself or others headed for hell or purgatory
A brief, broad measure of six spiritual struggles
Many reasons for religious doubt
Characterizing individuals' moral transgressions and their associations with religion
Introduction: While many facets of morality have been extensively studied, relatively little is known about how individuals experience their own moral transgressions or the degree to which these violations are interpreted through a religious lens. Method: To address this gap, we conducted a cross-sectional national survey of 604 U.S. adults who reported belief in God or gods. Participants were randomized to receive one of three prompts asking the…
Perceptions of psychedelic use by adults in the United States
Approach, disengagement, protest, and suppression
Religious and spiritual struggles around the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections
Supernatural operating rules
Polish Validation of a 14-Item Version of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale (RSS-14)
Religious and spiritual (R/S) struggles are defined as the occurrence of tension, conflict, or strain that focus on matters of ultimate significance perceived by people as sacred. The widespread prevalence of R/S struggles and the growing demand for research in this area created the need for a brief tool. Recently, the 14-item form of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale was developed and validated (Exline et al. in Psychology of Religion …
The experience of sacred moments and mental health benefits over time
Do Psychedelic Trips Open the Door to Messages from God, Spirits, Transcendent Realities, or the Devil? Links with Attitudes About Psychedelics, Opinions About Legalization, and Interest in Personal U…
Could psychedelic use open the door to messages from supernatural entities, including God, the devil, or human or nature spirits? Might psychedelics allow a glimpse of some transcendent domain, consciousness, or self that exists beyond the material world? We were interested in how people’s answers to these questions would relate to their attitudes about psychedelic use, legalization, and desire to use psychedelics if given a safe opportunity. Aft…
Stressful life events and religiousness predict struggles about religion and spirituality
Spiritual transformation among veterans in response to a religious/spiritual struggle
Partnering with God
The transformative power of the sacred
Response to Commentaries
Theological beliefs about suffering and interactions with the divine
Personality, religious and spiritual struggles, and well-being
God’s role in suffering
The Data Box and Within-Subject Analyses
Nesselroade and Molenaar suggest that it is the relationships between latent variables within subjects that are invariant across subjects and thus the appropriate unit of analysis. We disagree and take the view that between-factor correlations may differ systematically across subjects. Further, individual differences in these correlations may be an important source of information about each unique individual. Following from this premise, analyses…
Religious and Spiritual Struggles, Past and Present
The present research examined the relations between the Big Five factors of personality, religious/spiritual (r/s) struggles (tensions, conflicts, and strains pertaining to r/s life), and well-being. Participants comprised U.S. adults from an online sample (N = 1,047) and an undergraduate sample (N = 3,083). Regressions showed that people who reported higher Neuroticism and Openness, as well as lower Agreeableness and Conscientiousness, reported …
Quality of social experience explains the relation between extraversion and positive affect
The personality trait extraversion is associated with higher positive affect, and individuals who behave in an extraverted way experience increased positive affect. Across 2 studies, we examine whether the positive affectivity of extraverts can be explained in terms of qualitative aspects of social experience resulting from extraverted (i.e., bold, assertive) behavior. In our first study (N = 225, 58% female), we found that social well-being, a b…
Anxiety Predicts Increases in Struggles with Religious/Spiritual Doubt Over Two Weeks, One Month, and One Year
Struggles with religious/spiritual (r/s) doubt occur when uncertainty, questions, and hesitancy about aspects of r/s beliefs and experiences become a source of conflict. Cross-sectional research suggests that doubt-related struggles correlate with anxiety, yet no studies have investigated the temporal patterning of the associations between these constructs. We employed three large samples (Ns = 268, 527, 292) to examine concurrent and prospective…
Aspects of extraversion are unrelated to pleasant affective-reactivity
The general factor of personality
Do extraverts get more bang for the buck? Refining the affective-reactivity hypothesis of extraversion
One of the most robust observations in personality and emotion research is the finding that extraverts are happier than introverts. Some theorists have attributed this to differential reactivity of the brain reward system, which is central to many biologically inspired models of extraversion. This affective-reactivity hypothesis, which suggests that extraverts should be more susceptible to the induction of positive affect, has so far received ver…
Religious and Spiritual Struggles, Past and Present
The present research examined the relations between the Big Five factors of personality, religious/spiritual (r/s) struggles (tensions, conflicts, and strains pertaining to r/s life), and well-being. Participants comprised U.S. adults from an online sample (N = 1,047) and an undergraduate sample (N = 3,083). Regressions showed that people who reported higher Neuroticism and Openness, as well as lower Agreeableness and Conscientiousness, reported …
The general factor of personality
Aspects of extraversion are unrelated to pleasant affective-reactivity
The dynamic relationships of affective synchrony to perceptions of situations
Anxiety Predicts Increases in Struggles with Religious/Spiritual Doubt Over Two Weeks, One Month, and One Year
Struggles with religious/spiritual (r/s) doubt occur when uncertainty, questions, and hesitancy about aspects of r/s beliefs and experiences become a source of conflict. Cross-sectional research suggests that doubt-related struggles correlate with anxiety, yet no studies have investigated the temporal patterning of the associations between these constructs. We employed three large samples (Ns = 268, 527, 292) to examine concurrent and prospective…
Higher-order factors of the Big Five predict exploration and threat in life stories
Do Psychedelic Trips Open the Door to Messages from God, Spirits, Transcendent Realities, or the Devil? Links with Attitudes About Psychedelics, Opinions About Legalization, and Interest in Personal U…
Could psychedelic use open the door to messages from supernatural entities, including God, the devil, or human or nature spirits? Might psychedelics allow a glimpse of some transcendent domain, consciousness, or self that exists beyond the material world? We were interested in how people’s answers to these questions would relate to their attitudes about psychedelic use, legalization, and desire to use psychedelics if given a safe opportunity. Aft…
Response to Commentaries
Generativity, the Big Five, and Psychosocial Adaptation in Midlife Adults
The study examines the extent to which 2 sets of personality variables—(1) dispositional traits (and their facets) within the Big Five taxonomy and (2) the adult developmental construct of generativity—are associated with psychosocial adaptation in midlife adults ( N =128), conceived as the combination of individual well‐being and positive societal involvements. Generativity is conceived as an adult's concern for and commitment to promoting the w…
The Relevance of Big Five Trait Content in Behavior to Subjective Authenticity
Individuals vary their behavior from moment to moment a great deal, often acting “out of character” for their traits. This article investigates the consequences for authenticity. We compared 2 hypotheses— trait consistency , that individuals feel most authentic when acting in a way consistent with their traits; and state‐content significance , that some ways of acting feel more authentic because of their content and consequences, regardless of th…
Higher-order factors of the Big Five predict exploration and threat in life stories
The dynamic relationships of affective synchrony to perceptions of situations
The Dynamic Role of Personality States in Mediating the Relationship Between Extraversion and Positive Affect
One of the most noteworthy and robust findings in personality psychology is the relationship between extraversion and positive affect. Existing theories have debated the origins and nature of this relationship, offering both structural/fixed and environmental/dynamic explanations. We tested the novel and straightforward dynamic hypothesis that part of the reason trait extraversion predicts trait positive affect is through an increased propensity …
Do extraverts get more bang for the buck? Refining the affective-reactivity hypothesis of extraversion
One of the most robust observations in personality and emotion research is the finding that extraverts are happier than introverts. Some theorists have attributed this to differential reactivity of the brain reward system, which is central to many biologically inspired models of extraversion. This affective-reactivity hypothesis, which suggests that extraverts should be more susceptible to the induction of positive affect, has so far received ver…
Aspects of extraversion are unrelated to pleasant affective-reactivity
The general factor of personality
Quality of social experience explains the relation between extraversion and positive affect
The personality trait extraversion is associated with higher positive affect, and individuals who behave in an extraverted way experience increased positive affect. Across 2 studies, we examine whether the positive affectivity of extraverts can be explained in terms of qualitative aspects of social experience resulting from extraverted (i.e., bold, assertive) behavior. In our first study (N = 225, 58% female), we found that social well-being, a b…
Anxiety Predicts Increases in Struggles with Religious/Spiritual Doubt Over Two Weeks, One Month, and One Year
Struggles with religious/spiritual (r/s) doubt occur when uncertainty, questions, and hesitancy about aspects of r/s beliefs and experiences become a source of conflict. Cross-sectional research suggests that doubt-related struggles correlate with anxiety, yet no studies have investigated the temporal patterning of the associations between these constructs. We employed three large samples (Ns = 268, 527, 292) to examine concurrent and prospective…
Personality, religious and spiritual struggles, and well-being
God’s role in suffering
The Data Box and Within-Subject Analyses
Nesselroade and Molenaar suggest that it is the relationships between latent variables within subjects that are invariant across subjects and thus the appropriate unit of analysis. We disagree and take the view that between-factor correlations may differ systematically across subjects. Further, individual differences in these correlations may be an important source of information about each unique individual. Following from this premise, analyses…
Religious and Spiritual Struggles, Past and Present
The present research examined the relations between the Big Five factors of personality, religious/spiritual (r/s) struggles (tensions, conflicts, and strains pertaining to r/s life), and well-being. Participants comprised U.S. adults from an online sample (N = 1,047) and an undergraduate sample (N = 3,083). Regressions showed that people who reported higher Neuroticism and Openness, as well as lower Agreeableness and Conscientiousness, reported …
Theological beliefs about suffering and interactions with the divine
Stressful life events and religiousness predict struggles about religion and spirituality
Spiritual transformation among veterans in response to a religious/spiritual struggle
Partnering with God
The transformative power of the sacred
Response to Commentaries
The experience of sacred moments and mental health benefits over time
Do Psychedelic Trips Open the Door to Messages from God, Spirits, Transcendent Realities, or the Devil? Links with Attitudes About Psychedelics, Opinions About Legalization, and Interest in Personal U…
Could psychedelic use open the door to messages from supernatural entities, including God, the devil, or human or nature spirits? Might psychedelics allow a glimpse of some transcendent domain, consciousness, or self that exists beyond the material world? We were interested in how people’s answers to these questions would relate to their attitudes about psychedelic use, legalization, and desire to use psychedelics if given a safe opportunity. Aft…
Approach, disengagement, protest, and suppression
Religious and spiritual struggles around the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections
Supernatural operating rules
Psychology (28 works) · Social Psychology (27 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (15 works) · Personality (12 works) · Big Five personality traits (10 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Spirituality (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Extraversion and introversion (8 works) · Psychotherapist (7 works)