Invitation to the Psychology of Religion

Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is a professor of psychology at Boston College. Her major research focus addresses questions about the experience of emotion from a multidisciplinary perspective. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Society, has authored more than 60 academic articles and chapters, and coeditedThe Wisdom in Feeling: Psychological Processes in Emotional Intelligence. Paula M. Niedenthal, PhD, is Director of Research in the National Centre for Scientific Research and is a member of the Laboratory in Social and Cognitive Psychology at Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Author of more than 65 academic articles and chapters and several books, Dr. Niedenthal…  More is a fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and is currently at work on a textbook on the study of emotion in social psychology. Piotr Winkielman, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology at the University of California-San Diego. Dr. Winkielman's current research focuses on the relations among emotion, cognition, body, and consciousness using psychological and psychophysiological approaches. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Alliance for Autism Research, and he has served on the editorial boards of theJournal of Personality and Social PsychologyandPersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin.Raymond F. Paloutzian, PhD, is Professor of Experimental and Social Psychology at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. Previously, he taught at the University of Idaho and was a visiting professor at Stanford University and a guest professor at Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), the American Psychological Society, and the Western Psychological Association, Dr. Paloutzian is a past president of APA Division 36 (Psychology of Religion). He is the author of [i]Invitation to the Psychology of Religion, Second Edition[/i], and the editor of [i]The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion[/i]. Crystal L. Park, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on the roles of religious beliefs and religious coping in response to stressful life events, the phenomenon of stress-related growth, and people's attempts to find meaning in negative life events. She is associate editor of [i]Psychology and Health[/i] and is on the editorial boards of the [i]Journal of Clinical and Consulting Psychology[/i] and [i]The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion[/i]. A past president of APA Division 36, Dr. Park is also Principal Investigator on research projects funded by the Lance Armstrong Foundation (examining positive life changes in cancer survivors) and the Fetzer Foundation (examining changes in spirituality and well-being in patients with terminal heart failure).  Less