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Teaching Interests
Introduction to Psychology
Origins of the Social Sciences
Personality Theory
Research Methods
Introductory Statistics
Physiological Psychology
Research Interests
Narcissism
Self-Knowledge
Religion and Mental Health
Irrational Beliefs and Mental Health
Cross-Cultural Psychology
Mimetic Theory
Education
B.A. - University of Texas at El Paso, 1970
Ph.D. - University of Texas at Arlington, 1977
Representative Publications Presentations
Watson, P. J. (1993). Apologetics and ethnocentrism: Psychology and religion within an ideological surround. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 3, 1-20.
Watson, P. J. (1994). Changing the religious self and the problem of rationality. In T. M. Brinthaupt & R. P. Lipka (Eds.), Changing the self: Philosophies, techniques, and experiences (pp. 109-139). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Ghorbani, N., Watson, P. J., Ghramaleki, A. F., Morris, R. J., & Hood, R. W., Jr. (2000). Muslim Attitudes Towards Religion Scale: Factors, validity, and complexity of relationships with mental health in Iran. Mental Health, Religion, & Culture, 3, 125-132.
Watson, P. J., Sawrie, S. M., Greene, R. L., & Arredondo, R. (2002). Narcissism and depression: MMPI-2 evidence for the continuum hypothesis in clinical samples. Journal of Personality Assessment, 79, 85-109.
Ghorbani, N., Watson, P. J., Bing, M. N., Davison, H. K., & LeBreton, D. (2003). Two facets of self-knowledge: Cross-cultural development of measures in Iran and the United States. Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs, 129, 238-268.
Khan, Z. H., & Watson, P. J. (2004). Religious orientation and the experience of Eid-ul-Azha among Pakistani Muslims. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 43, 537-545.
Watson, P. J., & Culhane, S. E. (2005). Irrational beliefs and social constructionism: Correlations with attitudes about reality, beliefs about people, and collective self-esteem. Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 23, 57-70.
Watson, P. J., Trumpeter, N., O’Leary, B. J., Morris, R. J. & Culhane, S. E. (2005-2006). Narcissism and self-esteem in the presence of imagined others: Supportive versus destructive object representations and the continuum hypothesis. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 25, 253-268.
Watson, P. J. (2006). Friends of the Truth, violence, and the ideological surround: Social science as meetings for clearness. Archive fűr Religionspsychologie, 28, 123-132.
