International Journal for the Psychology of Religion

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal for the Psychology of Religion is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Enriching the Common Core of Mystical Experience: A Qualitative Analysis of Interviews with Daoist Monks and Nuns19
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How it Can Transform Your Life18
Unpacking the Relationship Between Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Religiosity in Poland: A Panel Analysis18
Religious Identity Formation of Filipino Canadian Youth: Exploring Cluster Differences in Religiosity and Mental Health13
Self, Other, and Higher Power: A “Relational Triad” Moderates Associations Between Mystical Experience and Mental Health11
Building Psychedelic Studies as an Interdisciplinary Academic Field: Its Urgency and Its Challenges10
Attachment in Religion and Spirituality: A Wider View10
A Scientific Assessment of the Validity of Mystical Experience: Understanding Altered Psychological and Neurophysiological States7
Advancing Islamic Psychology Education: Knowledge Integration, Model, and Application6
The “Ghost” in the Lab: Believers’ and Non-Believers’ Implicit Responses to an Alleged Apparition6
Stage 2 Registered Report: Parental and Children’s Religiosity in Early Childhood: Implications for Transmission6
God, Golf, and the Statistical Brain6
Leitmotifs in Life Stories: Developments and Stabilities of Religiosity and Narrative Identity5
A Social Cognition Perspective of the Psychology of Religion: “Why God Thinks Like You”5
Walking the Ambiguous Path: The Differential Effects of Religious Priming on Tolerance of Ambiguity in Chinese Taoists and Christians5
Assessing Longitudinal Measurement Invariance for the Short Christian Orthodoxy Scale4
Creating Positive, Negative, and Neutral God Concept Primes and Testing Their Impact on Scrupulosity Relevant Tasks and Symptoms4
Breaking Up with Religion. The Experience of Deconversion from Catholicism to “No Religion” Among Polish Adolescents4
The Associations between Religion, Impulsivity, and Externalizing Behaviors in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study4
Spiritual Experiences in Soulmate Relationships: Qualitative and Network Analysis of the Mystical Bond4
Chinese Buddhism and Vertical Space Metaphoric Thinking4
Awe, Group Cohesion, and Religious Self-Sacrifice3
Writing About Gratitude Toward God Produces Differential Content and Outcomes Compared to Gratitude Toward Other Benefactors Among U.S. Adults3
Do Empathetic People Have Strong Religious Beliefs? Survey Studies with Large Japanese Samples3
Temporal Associations between Religiosity and Subjective Well-Being in a Nationally Representative Australian Sample3
From Suffering to Salvation: Making Sense of Religious Experiences3
Content Matters: Perceptions of the Science-Religion Relationship3
The Nontheistic Sacred: The Psychological Functions of Metal Music and Artifacts2
Religion and Conspiracy Theories: An Introduction2
Identity Centrality, Social Identity Threat, and Differences in Concealment between Religious Minorities and Nonreligious Individuals2
Spiritual Coping, Emotional Responses to Existential Challenges, and Character Strengths: Revision and Validation of the Using Private Prayer for Coping Scale (UPPC-R)2
Deconversion Processes and Quality of Life among Polish Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Social Support2
Divine Comfort: How Religion Eases Muslim American Adolescents’ Real-Time Emotions of Shame and Guilt Around the Context of Ramadan2
Mystical Luminosity Experience – An Exploration of Transcendent Light1
The Role of Spiritual Well-Being in Spanish Cancer Patients: Exploring the Relationship Between Health, Religiosity and Spirituality, and the Underlying Psychosocial and Behavioral Pathways1
Prediction Beyond Belief: Rituals as Active Inference Mechanisms1
The Psychology of World Religions and Spiritualities: An Indigenous Perspective1
Imagining the Cognitive Science of Religion: Magic Bullets, Complex Theories, Experimental Adventures1
God, Can I Give Up?: The Diverging Effects of God-Related Thoughts on Task Persistence in Chinese Buddhists and Taoists1
Guided by God: Consulting Divine Omniscience During Decision Making1
Psychedelics and the Entropic Brain Beyond the Self1
Is There a Dark Side to Humility? Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Evidence for Existential Costs of Humility0
Why the New Bottle Matters – Pitfalls and Promises of Predictive Processing0
Formation and Articulation of Religious Beliefs0
In the Face of Adversity: A Phenomenological Study of Spiritual Struggles among “Bible-Believing” Christians0
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 U0
Introduction to Special Issue in Honor of Ralph W. Hood, Jr.0
Religiousness and Minority Stress in Conservatively Religious Sexual Minorities: Lessons from Latter-day Saints0
Entheogenic Spirituality: Characteristics of Spiritually Motivated Psychedelics Use0
Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Eastern Orthodox Christian Anthropology in Dialogue (1st ed.)0
Worse Places for Gods: Does Latitudinal Variability Loosen Religiosity?0
A Psychology of Religion via Thick Phenomenology in Thin Places0
Mystical and Ego-Dissolution Experiences in Ayahuasca and Jurema Holistic Rituals: An Exploratory Study0
Comments to the Article “The Gods as Latent Causes: A Statistical Inference Theory of Religion”, by Francesco Rigoli & Jack Lennon0
Studying Close Entity Encounters of the Psychedelic Kind: Insights from the Cognitive Evolutionary Science of Religion0
‘God of the Gaps’: A Critical Perspective on the Statistical Inference Theory of Religion0
Altered States of Consciousness During Ceremonial San Pedro Use0
Positive Association Between Ritual Performance and Perceived Objectivity of Moral Norms0
The Effects of Buddhist Religiosity and Aspects on Prosociality0
Deconversion and Identity Formation in Adolescents: The Role of Internal Dialogs and Religiousness of Parents0
How Religiousness Increases and Decreases Prejudice: The Mediating Roles of Religious Fundamentalism and Religious Ethnocentrism0
Intellectual Humility in the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality0
Investigating the Hypothesis of the Strength of Religious and Atheistic Belief for Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption in Heterosexual and LGBTQIA+ People0
Evidence for the Brief Mysticism Scale: Psychometric Properties, and Moderation and Mediation Effects in Predicting Spiritual Self-Identification0
Human Interaction with the Divine, the Sacred, and the Deceased: Psychological, Scientific, and Theological Perspectives0
The Existential Challenge of Religious Pluralism: Religion, Politics, and Meaning in Life0
The Role of Religion in the Mental Health of Single Adults: A Mixed-Method Investigation0
Yearning for Something More: Inductive Thematic Analysis of Spiritual Yearning0
Let God Judge Between Me and Thee: Activating God-Related Concepts Increases Overconfidence in Chinese Han and Bai People0
Beliefs and Experiences Involving God, the Devil, Spirits, and Fate: Social, Motivational, and Cognitive Predictors0
The Gods as Latent Causes: A Statistical Inference Theory of Religion0
“God is My Refuge”: Do Education and News Consumption Prompt Africans to Put More Trust in the COVID-19 Vaccine Than in Prayer?0
Effects of Participating in Religious Groups on Mental Health Issues: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study0
The Association between Religious Participation and Executive Function in Middle- and Older-aged Adults: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging0
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Religious Motivation: Retrospect and Prospect0
Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity0
Seeing Religious Faith as Essential to Morality Predicts Deconversion Guilt0
The Impact of Changes in Religion on Health Among Sexual Minority Mormons0
An Introduction to the Cognitive Science of Religion: Connecting Evolution, Brain, Cognition and Culture0
The God of Big (And Good) Things: Religious Priming, Event Properties, and Supernatural Explanations0
God and Psychology: How the Early Religious Development of Famous Psychologists Influenced their Work0
Faith Factors, Character Strengths, and Depression following Hurricane Michael0
De-Siloing the Psychology of Religion and Psychedelic Science: Introduction to the Special Issue on Psychedelics and Mystical-type Experiences0
Faithless Found: Replication and Extension of Gervais (2011)0
The Varieties of Spiritual Experience: 21st Century Research and Perspectives0
Psychedelic Science of Spirituality and Religion: An Attachment-Informed Agenda Proposal0
Freud and Religion: Advancing the Dialogue0
Beyond Residuals: Toward a Comprehensive Understanding of Religion0
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