Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG)


2008-10-17 16:45: Do ghosts get itchy? A cross-cultural study of folk dualistic reasoning (Dr. Emma Cohen (Centre for Anthropology and Mind, University of Oxford))

2008-10-23 16:30: Implicit theism in self-reported atheists (Dr. Jesse Bering (Institute of Cognition and Culture, Queen's University Belfast))

2008-10-30 16:30: Cultural psychology of religion (Prof. Jacob Belzen (University of Amsterdam))

2008-11-12 16:30: The natural foundations of reincarnation beliefs (Claire White (University of Cambridge))

2008-11-26 16:30: Irreligious experiences: Preliminary empirical findings (Stephen Bullivant (University of Oxford))

2009-02-03 16:30: A religious Stroop effect? Searching for attentional biases in religious cognition (Dr. Nicholas Gibson (University of Cambridge))

2009-02-24 16:30: Strange bedfellows: Psychologists in missionary care (Prof. Steve Allison (Abilene Christian University))

2009-05-05 16:30: Jesus in your heart: Why personal relationships with God can increase both cardiovascular health and coalitional aggression (Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook and Colin Holbrook (Queen's University, Belfast))

2009-05-19 16:30: How to create a religion: What does it really take to explain (and therefore understand) a religious ritual act? (Prof. E. Thomas Lawson (Institute of Cognition and Culture, Queen's University, Belfast))

2009-06-08 16:30: Religion and self-regulation (Prof. Michael McCullough (University of Miami))

2009-10-19 16:30: Researching fundamentalism and xenophobia: A religious schema approach (Dr. Heinz Streib (Bielefeld University, Germany))

2009-11-02 16:30: Religion and the emergence of differentiated cognition (Dr. Fraser Watts (University of Cambridge))

2009-11-23 16:30: Improving paper-and-pencil measures of God representations (Bonnie Poon Zahl (Dept. of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge))

2010-02-25 16:30: Spirituality, religiousness, and schizophrenia (Prof. Pierre-Yves Brandt (Universities of Lausanne and Geneva))

2010-03-03 17:30: Hearing God: an anthropological look at American evangelical Christianity (Professor Tanya Luhrmann)

2010-03-12 16:00: The ethical brain (Prof. MIchael Gazzaniga (UC Santa Barbara))

2010-06-18 13:00: Psychological essentialism and the concept of the soul (Prof. Rebekah Richert (Department of Psychology, University of California Riverside))

2010-06-25 13:00: Scientific study of forgiveness: Status (Prof. Everett L. Worthington (Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA))

2010-10-20 15:30: Dimensions and Types of Non-Religiosity (Dr. Nicholas Gibson (University of Cambridge))

2011-05-13 13:00: The Coexistence of Natural and Supernatural Explanations across Cultures and Development (Dr. Cristine Legare, University of Texas at Austin)

2011-05-18 13:00: Sacred values, sacred terror: Motivation and religious terrorism (Dr. James W. Jones (Rutgers University; John Jay College of Criminal Justice))

2011-05-23 14:00: Imitation, Participation, and the Transformation of Identity in Paul's Practical Theology (Prof. Susan Eastman (Duke Divinity School))

2011-05-27 13:00: Toward a Psychology of Atheism: Dimensions and Types of Non-Religiosity (Dr. Nicholas J. S. Gibson, University of Cambridge)