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Overview

Ralph W. Hood is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in the United States. Their research primarily intersects the fields of social sciences, psychology, and arts and humanities, with a focused attention on religion, spirituality, and their psychological dimensions.

Their published work reveals involvement in several subfields including sociology and political science, health, social psychology, clinical psychology, and philosophy. These areas contribute to a broad interdisciplinary approach in their scholarly activities.

Key topics in their research include:

  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Religion, Society, and Development
  • Religion and Society Interactions
  • Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
  • Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Psychedelics and Drug Studies

Ralph W. Hood has contributed to a variety of academic venues, with frequent publications in:

  • International Journal for the Psychology of Religion
  • New York University Press eBooks
  • Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
  • Journal of Religion and Health
  • Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

Among their more recent papers are:

  • Conceptual and Empirical Variations in Relations Between Spirituality and Mental Health, 2022, Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition
  • Faith development as change in religious types: Results from three-wave longitudinal data with faith development interviews, 2021, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
  • Concealment of nonreligious identity: Exploring social identity threat among atheists and other nonreligious individuals, 2020, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
  • Methodological Exclusion of the Transcendent? Implications for Theory and Research in Religion, Spirituality and Health, 2023, Journal of Religion and Health
  • Translation, Cultural Adaptation, and Analysis of the Psychometric Properties of the Death Transcendence Scale for the Brazilian Context, 2023, OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying

They have also been involved in book publications including the title Blood and Fire, published in 2020 by New York University Press eBooks.

Collaborations have been a notable part of their career, with frequent co-authors such as Heinz Streib, Zhuo Job Chen, Margaret M. Poloma, and Barbara Keller.

Best Publications

  • Conceptualizing Religion and Spirituality: Points of Commonality, Points of Departure

    Peter C. Hill;Kenneth Ii. Pargament;Ralph W. Hood;Michael E. McCullough Jr.

  • The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach

    Michael J. Donahue;Ralph W. Hood;Bernard Spilka;Bruce Hunsberger

  • The construction and preliminary validation of a measure of reported mystical experience.

    Ralph W. Hood

  • The Varieties of Self-Transcendent Experience:

    David Bryce Yaden;Jonathan Haidt;Ralph W. Hood;David R. Vago

  • Intrinsic-Extrinsic Religious Orientation: The Boon or Bane of Contemporary Psychology of Religion?

    Lee A. Kirkpatrick;Ralph W. Hood

  • The psychology of religion: An empirical approach, 4th ed.

    Ralph W. Hood Jr.;Peter C. Hill;Bernard Spilka

  • The psychology of religion: An empirical approach, 3rd ed.

    Bernard Spilka;Ralph W. Hood;Bruce Hunsberger;Richard Gorsuch

  • The Psychology of Religious Fundamentalism

    Ralph W. Hood;Peter C. Hill;W. Paul Williamson

  • Dimensions of the Mysticism Scale: Confirming the Three‐Factor Structure in the United States and Iran

    Ralph W. Hood;Nima Ghorbani;P. J. Watson;Ahad Framarz Ghramaleki

  • The psychology of religion: An empirical approach, 2nd ed.

    Ralph W. Hood Jr.;Bernard Spilka;Bruce Hunsberger;Richard Gorsuch

  • The Religious Experience

    Ralph W. Hood;C. Daniel Batson;W. Larry Ventis

  • The Religious Schema Scale: Construction and Initial Validation of a Quantitative Measure for Religious Styles

    Heinz Streib;Ralph W. Hood;Constantin Klein

  • Religious Orientation and the Report of Religious Experience

    Ralph W. Hood

  • Empathy, Religious Orientation, and Social Desirability

    P. J. Watson;Ralph W. Hood;Ronald J. Morris;James R. Hall

  • Muslim attitudes towards religion scale: Factors, validity and complexity of relationships with mental health in Iran

    Nima Ghorbani;P. J. Watson;Ahad Framarz Ghramaleki;Ronald J. Morris

  • The six types of nonbelief: a qualitative and quantitative study of type and narrative

    Christopher F. Silver;Thomas J. Coleman;Ralph W. Hood;Jenny M. Holcombe

  • Further factor analysis of Hood's Mysticism scale

    Ralph W. Hood;Ronald J. Morris;P.J. Watson

  • The Intratextual Fundamentalism Scale: cross-cultural application, validity evidence, and relationship with religious orientation and the Big 5 factor markers1

    W. Paul Williamson;Ralph W. Hood;Aneeq Ahmad;Mahmood Sadiq

  • Of Roots and Fruits: A Comparison of Psychedelic and Nonpsychedelic Mystical Experiences:

    David B. Yaden;Khoa D. Le Nguyen;Margaret L. Kern;Alexander B. Belser

  • Muslim-Christian Religious Orientation Scales: Distinctions, Correlations, and Cross-Cultural Analysis in Iran and the United States

    Nima Ghorbani;P. J. Watson;Ahad Framarz Ghramaleki;Ronald J. Morris

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul J. Watson
Paul J. Watson University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Thomas G. Plante
Thomas G. Plante Santa Clara University
Phillip R. Shaver
Phillip R. Shaver University of California, Davis
Carl E. Thoresen
Carl E. Thoresen Stanford University
Richard L. Gorsuch
Richard L. Gorsuch Fuller Theological Seminary
Johannes C. Eichstaedt
Johannes C. Eichstaedt Stanford University
Margaret L. Kern
Margaret L. Kern University of Melbourne
Leslie J. Francis
Leslie J. Francis University of Warwick
Crystal L. Park
Crystal L. Park University of Connecticut
Lee A. Kirkpatrick
Lee A. Kirkpatrick William & Mary

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