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Degrees

B.S., University of California, Los Angeles
M.S., California State College, Los Angeles, 1966
Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno, 1968

 

Teaching Interests

Psychology of Religion
Philosophical Psychology

 

Journal Editor Assignments

Consulting Editor, Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 1971 to present
Book Review Editor, The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 1990 to present
Editorial Board Mental Health, Religion and Culture
Editor, International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 1992 to 1995
Editor, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1995 to present

 

Recent Papers and Publications

Watson, P.J., Morris, R.J., Hood, R.W., Jr. (1990) Intrinsicness, Religious Self-Love, and Narcissism, Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 9, 40-46.

Watson, P.J., Morris, R.J., Hood, R.W., Jr., and Biderman, M.D. (1990) Religious Orientation Types and Narcissism. Journal of Psychology and Christainity, 9, 40-46.

Hood, R.W., Jr., Morris, R.J. and Watson, P.J. (1990) Quasi-Experimental Elicitation of the Differential Report of Religious Experience Among Intrinsic and Indiscriminately Pro-Religious Types. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 29, 164-172.

Kirkpatrick, L.A., Hood, R. W., Jr. and Hartz, G. (1990) Fundamentalist Religion Conceptualized in Terms of Rokeach's Model of the Open and Closed Mind: A Theoretical Model and Its Implications for Mental Health. Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 3 Greenwich, Ct.: JAI Press.

Kirkpatrick, L.A. and Hood, R.W., Jr. (1990) Intrinsic-extrinsic Religious Orientation: The boon or the bane of contemporary psychology of religion. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion , 29, 442-462

Watson, P.J., Folbrecht, J., Morris, R.J. and Hood, R. W., Jr. (1990) Values, Irrationality and Religiosity. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 18, 348-362.

Watson, P.J. Morris, R. J. and Hood, R.W., Jr. (1990) Dependency, Irrationality: and Community Journal of Theology and Psychology, 18, 334-347.

Hood, R. W., Jr. (1991) (Review). A. Steinsaltz. The Strife of the Spirit. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1988. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, I, 69.

Hood, R.W., Jr. (1991) (Review). Handbook of Faith. J.M. Lee (Ed.) Birmingham, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1990. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, I, 69.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. & Hood, R. W., Jr. (1991) Intrinsic-extrinsic Religious Orientation: The Boon or Bane of Contemporary Psychology of Religion. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 29, 442-462.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. & Hood, R. W., Jr. (1991) Rub-A-Dub-Sub: Who's in the Tub? Reply to Masters. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 30, 318-321.

Taslimi, C. R., Hood, R. W., Jr., & Watson, P. J. (1991) Assessment of Former Members of Shiloh: The Adjective Check List l7 Years Later. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 30, 306-311.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. (1991) Holm's Use of Role Theory: Empirical and Hermeneutical Considerations of Sacred Text as a Source of Role Adoption. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 1, 153-159.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr., Morris, R. J., & Watson, P. J. (1991) Male Commitment of the Cult of the Virgin Mary and the Passion of Christ as a Function of Early Maternal Bonding. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 1, 221-231.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. (1991) Religious Orientation and the Experience of Transcendence. In H. Newton Malony (ed). Psychology of Religion: Personalities, Problems, Possibilities. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, pp. 87-98.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. (1991) Mysticism in the Psychology of Religion. In H. Newton Malony (ed). Psychology of Religion: Personalities, Problems, Possibilities. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, pp. 99-104.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. (1992) Mysticism, Reality, Illusion and the Freudian Critique of Religion. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 2, 141-159.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. (1992) A Jamesean Look at Self and Self Loss in Mystical Experience. The Journal of the Psychology of Religion, 1, 1-24.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. (1992) Sin and Guilt in Faith Traditions: Issues for Self Esteem. In John F. Schumaker (ed.). Religion and Mental Health. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 110-121.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. (1992) (Review). Where the Spirits Ride the Wind: Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences. Felcitas D. Goodman. Bloomington: Indiana Press, l990. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 2, 199-200.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. (1992) (Review). Mystical Monotheism: A Study in Ancient Platonic Theology. John Peter Kenney. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, l99l. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 2, 200.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. (1992) (Review). Religion in Psychodynamic Perspective: The Contributions of Paul W. Pruyser. H. Newton Malony & Bernard Spilka (Eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, l99l. The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 31, 546-548.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. (1993) (Review). Mysticism and Language. New York: Oxford. Review of Religious Research, 35, 89-90.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr., Morris, R.J., & Watson, P. J. (1993) Further Factor Analysis of Hood' s Mysticism Scale. Psychological Reports, 73, 1176-1178.

Hood. Ralph W., Jr. Self and self loss in mystical experience (1994). In Changing the Self. T.M. Brinthaupt and R.P. Lika (Eds.) Albany: State University, New York Press, pp. 279-305.

Hood, Ralph W. Jr. (1994). Psychology and religion. In . U. S. Ramachdran (Ed.). Encyclopaedia of Human Behavior, 3 vols. New York: Academic Press, pp. 619-629.

Watson, P. J., Morris, R. J. & Hood, R.W., Jr. (1994). Religion and rationality 1: Rational -emotive and religious understandings of perfectionism and other irrationalities. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 13, 356-372.

Watson, P. J., Morris, R. J. & Hood, R.W., Jr. (1994). Religion and rationality 11: Comparative analysis of rational-emotive and intrinsic religious rationalities. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 13, 373-384.

Hood, Ralph W. Jr. (1995). The facilitation of religious experience. In R. W. Hood Jr. (Ed). Handbook of religious experience. Birmingham, Alabama: Religious Education press, pp. 535-597.

Hood, Ralph W. Jr. (Review). (1995). Faces in the clouds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 5, 219-220.

Hood, Ralph W. and Kimbrough, D. (1995). Serpent handling sects; Theoretical considerations. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 34, 311-322.

Hood, Ralph W. Jr. (1995).The soulfull self of William James. In D. Capps and J. L. Jacobs (eds). The struggle for life: A companison to William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience. Newton, Kansas: Menonite Press. pp. 209-219.

Hood, Ralph W. Jr., Morris, R. J., Hickman, S. E., and Watson., P. J. (1995). Martin and Malcom as cultural icons: An empirical study comparing lower class African American and white males. Review of Religious research, 36, 382-388.

Hood, Ralph W. Jr. (Review) (1995). Salvation on Sand Mountain.: Snake handling and redemption in Southern Appalachia. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, l995. Appalachian Heritage, Summer, 54-56.

Watson, P. J., Milliron, J. T., Morris, R. J. & Hood, R. W., Jr. (1995). Locus of control within a religious ideological surround. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 14, 239-249.

Watson, P. J., Milliron, J. T., Morris, R. J. & Hood, R. W., Jr. (1995). Religion and the Kimbrough, D. L. and Hood, R. W. Jr. (l995). Carson Springs and the persistence of serpent handling despite the law. Journal of Appalachian Studies, l, 45-65.

Hood, Ralph W. Jr. (Review) (1996). Cult and ritual abuse: Its history, anthropology, and recent discovery in contemporary America. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, l995. Psychology of Religion Newsletter, 21, 3, 7.

Hood, Ralph. W. Jr. Feminism and Pastoral Care. In D. Brenner (ed). Baker Encyclopaedia of Psychology, 2d. ed. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, l997.

Hood, Ralph W. Jr. (1997)The Empirical Study of Mysticism. In B. Spilka & D. N. McIntosh (Eds.). The Psychology of Religion. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, pp. 222-232.

Hood, Ralph W. Jr. Psychoanalysis and fundamentalism: Lessons from a feminist critique of Freud. In J. L. Jacobs & D. Capps (Eds.). Religion, Society, and Psychoanalysis. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, l997, pp. 42-67.

Hood, Ralph. W. Jr. Martin and Malcolm as Cultural Icons. In N. Ba’Nikongo (ed). Leading Essays in African-American Studies. Durham, N. C.: Carolina Academic Press.

Hood, Ralph W. Jr. (Review). (1997). Prime-Time Religion: An Encyclopedia of Religious Broadcasting by J. Gordon Melton, P. C. Lucas & J. R. Stone. l997. Phoenix, Arizona: Oryr Press. In Nova Religion: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 1, 306-307.

Hood, Ralph. W. Jr. Mysticism in A. E. Kazdin (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Psychology. New York: American Psychological Association & Oxford University Press, l997.

Hood, Ralph W. Jr. (Review) (1995) The Corruption of Reality: A Unified Theory of Religion, Hypnosis, and Psychopathology. New York: Prometheus Books. In The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 1997, 7, 63-64.

Hood, Ralph W. Jr. (Review) (1994) The Foundation of Mysticism: Origins to the Fifth Century and The Growth of Mysticism: Gregory the Great through the 12th Century, Vols. 1 & 2 of The Presence of God: A History of Western Mysticism. Bernard, McGinn, New York: Crossroad. In The International Journal, for the Psychology of Religion, l997, 7, 211-212.

Hood, Ralph. W. Jr. Feminism and Pastoral Care. In D. Brenner (ed). Baker Encyclopaedia of Psychology, 2d. ed. Grand Rapids, Miuchigan: Baker Book House, l997.

Hood, R. W. Jr. (1999) Swatos, W. H. (Ed). Encyclopaedia of Religion and Society: Walnut Creek:Altamira

Convention Papers And Invited Addresses

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. An empirical test of the validity of Rokeach's Opinionation Scale. Paper delivered at the Western Psychological Association, San Francisco, California, 1967.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. A critique of the theoretical assumptions and empirical validation of the Remote Associates Test. In Paul F. Secord (Chm.), New directions in theory and method. Symposium presented at the Western Psychological Association; San Diego, March, 1968.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Effects of foreknowledge of manner of death in the assessment from genuine and simulated suicide notes of intent to die. Paper delivered at the Western Psychological Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1969.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. and Ginsburg, G.P. Variation in remote associates test performance as a function of cultural availability of test items within linguistic subcultures. Paper delivered at the Western Psychological Association, Los Angeles, California, April, 1970.

Hod, Ralph W., Jr. Value orientation and the assessment of creativity. Paper delivered at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Athens, Georgia, April, 1971.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Rater originality and the assessment of original behavior: Interpersonal considerations. Paper delivered at the Southeastern Psychological Association, Miami, Florida, April, 1971.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Anchoring effects of rater originality level in the interpersonal assessment of originality. Paper delivered at the Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, Georgia, April, 1972.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Religious orientation and the experience of transcendence. Paper delivered at the Southeastern Psychological Association , Atlanta, Georgia, April, 1972.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Dogmatism and popular conceptions of mental illness. Paper delivered at the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1973.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Mystical experience and its relationship to forms of religious experience. Paper delivered at the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1973.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Cognitive and affective rejection of the mentally ill as a function of dogmatism. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association Convention, Hollywood, Florida, May, 1974.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. The phenomenon of ego loss in mysticism: Some conceptual considerations of regressive explanations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Washington, D.C., October, 1974.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr., The construction and preliminary validation of a measure of reported mystical experience. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association Convention, Hollywood, Florida, May, 1974.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Correlations between reported mystical experience and existential psychological health. Paper presented as part of Symposium, Religion and Existential Health, Daniel J. Baer (Chair). Annual Meeting of American Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois, 1975.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Mystical experience as related to present and anticipated future church participation. Presented as part of Symposium, The Impact of Non-Traditional Forms of Religiosity on Religious Organizations , H. Newton Malony (Chair). Review of Religious Research, Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1975.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Elicity mystical states of consciousness with semi-structured nature experiences. Paper presented as part of Symposium, Religious Experience and Altered States of Consciousness, John Tisdale (Chair). Annual meeting of American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., September, 1976.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Differential evaluation of three intense experiences as a function of their triggers, dogmatism, and social acquiescence. Paper presented at annual meeting of Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October, 1976.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Psychological theory confronts religious theories of psychology. In S. Rossi, (Chair) Teaching the Psychology of Values and Religion Symposium presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada, September, 1978.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Set and setting incongruities as elicitors of mystical experience in solitary nature settings. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Hartford, Connecticut, October, 1978.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. and Hall, James R. Gender differences in the description of erotic and mystical experiences. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Religious Research Association, Hartford, Connecticut, October, 1978.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Knowledge and experience criteria in the report of mystical experience. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, San Antonio, Texas, October, 1979.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Social psychology of rural religion. Paper presented at Southeastern Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., March, 1980.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Eliciting religious imagery in an isolation tank situation. Paper presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Cincinnati, Ohio, October, 1980.

Morris, R.J. and Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Religious Orientation, Report of mystical experience and attitudes toward death. Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Cincinnati, Ohio, October, 1980.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Mysticism: The empirical tradition. Invited address in acceptance of Division 36 fellow award presented at annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Manitoba, Canada, September, 1980.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. A typology for the empirical study of mysticism. Paper presented at annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Los Angeles, California, August, 1981.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. and Morris, R.J. The empirical identification and utilization of Lifton's Modes of Death Transcendence. Paper presented at annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Baltimore, Maryland, October 1981.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. The return of the sacred. Invited address, Spokane College of Women, Spokane, Washington, October, 1981.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. and Morris, R.J. An investigation of Lifton's modes of death transcendence in an aged population. Paper presented at annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Providence, Rhode Island, October, 1982.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Ten years of research on religious experience. Paper presented at annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Los Angeles, California, August, 1983.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. and Morris, R.J. Conclusion on quest: A critical rejoinder to Batson. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and Religious Research Association, Knoxville, Tennessee, October, 1983.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. and Morris, R.J. Are intrinsically religious only apparently less prejudiced? A second look at religious orientation, social desirability and prejudice. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and Religious Research Association, Knoxville, Tennessee, October,1984.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr., Watson, P.J. and Morris, R.J. Sin and self in the religious and anti-religious person. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Chicago, Illinois, October, 1984.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. and Morris, R.J. Elicitation of visual and auditory images in low and high intrinsic persons. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and Religious Research Association, Knoxville, Tennessee, October, 1984.

Hood, Ralph W. , Jr. and Morris, R.J. Toward a theory of self and self loss in mysticism. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Chicago, Illinois, October, 1984.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. WILLIAM JAMES AWARD LECTURE. Theoretical confrontations with mysticism, Los Angeles, California , August, 1985. (Available on cassette tape from Audio Transcripts, Ltd.) 610 Madison Street, Alexander, Virginia, 22314 (tape #70)

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. and Morris, R.J. Boundary maintenance among fundamentalists and preference for Reagan. Paper presented at annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Savannah, Georgia, October, 1985.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. The conceptualization of religious purity in Allport. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Savannah, Georgia, October, 1985.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. and Morris, R.J. Intrinsic and Indiscriminate Pro Response to Humor as a Function of Cartoon Content and Social Prompting. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Washington, D.C., October, 1986.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. and Andrews, Kay . Gender Differences in the Description of Mysticism in St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa: A Qualitative Test of a Previously Supported Quantitative Prediction. Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Washington, D.C., October, 1986.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Symposium on the Allport Tradition of Intrinsic/Extrinsic Religiosity. Paper Presented and Symposium Chair, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Washington, D.C., October, 1966.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. and Morris, R.J. Religious Orientation and Prayer Experience. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Religious Research Association, Louisville, Kentucky, October/November, 1987.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Religious Orientation and Prayer Experience. Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, New York, August, 1987.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Differential Elicitation of Religious Imagery Among Religious Types. Paper Presented at Annual Meeting of Southeastern Psychological Association, Gainesville, Florida, March 1987.

Bradley, Clara & Hood, Ralph W., Jr. The Most Preferred Parent Hypothesis as a Determinant of God Image among Intrinsic and Extrinsic Catholic Adolescents. Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, March, 1988.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. and Schuelke, S.P. Varieties of Prayer Experience as a Function of Religious Orientation. Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, March, 1988.

Aldridge, C.S. & Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Elicitation of Imagery among Intrinsic and Extrinsic Types. Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association New Orleans, Louisiana, March, 1988.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Conceptual and Empirical Considerations of Mysticism. Invited Address, Psychology Department, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, February, 1988.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Theological Criteria in the Assessment of Religious Pathology: Freud's Use of Vaihinger's 'as if' philosophy. Paper Delivered at International Conference of Christian Counseling, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 1988.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Freud's Use of Vaihinger's Philosophy of 'as if'. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Chicago, Illinois, October, 1988.

Schuelke, P. & Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Birth Order , Attachment, and the Report of Mystical Experience. Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Religious Research Association, Chicago, Illinois, October, 1988.

Morris, R.J., Aldridge, C.S. & Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Grade Achievement and Volunteer Participation Among Religious Types: A Quasi-Experimental Investigation. Paper Presented at the Annual Joint Meeting of Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and Religious Research Association, Chicago, Illinois, October, 1988.

Bradley, C., Morris, R.J. & Hood, R. W., Jr. The most preferred parent hypothesis as a determinant of God image among intrinsic and extrinsic adolescents. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., March, 1989.

Hood, Ralph W. , Jr. Religion and the Reality Principle: Religious Truth in Freudian Theory. In J. Gartner and R.W. Hood, Jr. (Chairs) Applying Scientific Methods to Object Relations Theory and Religion. Symposium at Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. (Symposium Chair) The Treatment of Religion in Psychology Textbooks. Association, Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, August, 1989.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. & Morris, R. J. Quasi-Experimental Elicitation of the Differential Report of Religious Experience Among Religious Types Under Isolation Tank Conditions. Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Religious Research Association, Salt Lake City, Utah, October, 1989.

Kirkpatrick, L.A. & Hood, R.W., Jr. I-E Religious Orientation - The 'Boone' of the 'Bane' of the Psychology of Religion. Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Salt Lake City, Utah, October, 1989.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. & Kirkpatrick, L.A. Religious Fundamentalism Conceptualized in Light of Rokeach's Dogmatism, Psychoanalytic and Attachment Theories. Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Salt Lake City, Utah, October, 1989.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. & Taslimi, C. The Shilo Project: Fifteen Year Follow-Up Data. Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Salt Lake City, Utah, October, 1989.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Religious Cult Definitions: The View of Empirical Psychology. In H. Newton Malony (Chair). Symposium: Religious Cult Definitions, Legal Action, Family Counseling and Expert Testimony. American Psychological Association, Boston, Massachusetts, August, 1990.

Hood, Ralph W. ,Jr. The Future of Religious Issues in Psychology: By What Criteria. In Virginia Sexton (Chair) Symposium: State of the Art for Psychologists Interested in Religious Issues. American Psychological Association, Boston, Massachusetts August, 1990.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. & Morris, R.J. An Empirical Test of Carroll's Thesis on the Origins of the Cult of the Virgin Mary. Paper Presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Virginia Beach, Virginia, November, 1990.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. (Chair) Author Meets Critic: The Psychology of Religion: Classic and Contemporary Views. Symposium Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Virginia Beach, Virginia, November, 1990.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Male Commitment to the Cult of the Virgin Mary and the Passion of Christ as a Function of Early Maternal Bonding. Paper Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, California, August, l99l.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. The contemporary status of the Psychology of Religion. Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, California, August, l99l.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr., & Morris, R. J. Dreams as Marginal Religious Experiences. Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November, l99l.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Distinguished Article in the Scientific Study of Religion: Author Meets Critics. At the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November, l99l.

Taslimi, Cheryl R. . & Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Long Term Follow Up of Former Members of a Jesus Community. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, March, l99l.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. SEPA Psychologists Interested in Religious Issues. At Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, March, l99l.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. James and the Problem of Mystical Unity in a Pluralistic Universe. President's Address to Division 36, American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., August, l992.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. The Two Mysticisms of William James. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Crystal City, November, l992.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. & Morris, R. Religious Dream Experiences: A Preliminary Investigation. Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Crystal City, November, 1992.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. (chair) Symposium-Religious Experience: Interpretation and Context. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada, August, l993.

Hood, Ralph W. , Jr. & Morris, R. J. Prayer, Religious Orientation, and Mystical Experience. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Religious Research Association, Raleigh, North Carolina, November, 1993.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr., Morris, R.J., & Hickman, S. E. Semantic Differential Evaluation and Potency Ratings of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X among African American and Caucasian Lower Class Males. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Raleigh, North Carolina, November, 1993.

Hood, Ralph W., Jr. Symposium- Explorations in Measuring Fundamentalism. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Raleigh, North Carolina, November, 1993.

Harvey, D. and Hood, R. W. Jr. The construction and preliminary validation of the prayer questionnaire. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, March/April, 1994.

Williams, P. and Hood, R. W. Jr. The prayer questionnaire and religious experience in the Church of God of Prophecy. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, March/April, 1994.

Hood, R. W. Jr. Martin and Malcolm as cultural icons: An empirical study comparing lower class African American and white males. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, March/April, 1994.

Hood, R. W. Jr. Undergraduate Research: Moving Toward Publication. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, March/April, 1994.

Hood, R. W. Jr. (Chair). Evidential value of reports of religious experience. Symposium presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Los Angeles, California, August, 1994.

Hood, R. W. Jr. and Kimbrough, D. L. Social justice and southeastern serpent handlers. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November, l994.

Hood, R. W. Jr. and Morris, R. J. Attachment and bonding as predictors of the report of mystical experience. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November, l994.

Hood, R. W. Jr. Sectarian movements in religious fundamentalism: The case of Southern serpent handlers. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, August, New York, New York., l995.

Hood, R. W. Jr. Religious mysticism and psychotherapy. Symposium Chair and discussant. American Psychological Association, August, New York, New York, August, l995.

Hood, R. W. Jr. The future of the psychology of religion I & II. Symposiums presention at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, St. Louis, Missouri, October, l995.

Hood, R. W., Jr. The human side of prayer. Symposium presentation in response to Brown’s book, The human side of prayer at the annual meeting of the Religious Research Association, St. Louis, Missouri, October, l995.

Williamson, P., Morris, R. J., and Hood, R. W. Jr. Prayer as a predictor of spiritual and existential well being. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, St. Louis, Missouri, October, l995.

Hood, R. W. Jr. The Serpent Handling Holiness Sects of Southern Appalachia. Invited address, Western Carolina University, February, l996.

Hood, Ralph W. Jr. Psychoanalytic Theories of Religious Fundamentalism: Lessons from feminist Critiques of Freud. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada, August, 1966.

Hood, Ralph W. Jr. Serpents and the elicitation of emotion in Holiness sects. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Nashville, Tennessee, November, l996.

Hood, Ralph W. Jr. and Morris, Ronald J. Adult Attachment Style as a Predictor of the Report of Mystical Experience. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Review of Religious Research, Nashville, Tennessee, November, l996.

Hood, Ralph W. Jr. Psychoanalytic Theories of Religious Fundamentalism: Lessons from feminist Critiques of Freud. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Nashville, Tennessee, November, l996.

Hood, Ralph W. Jr. The Current Status of the Psychology of Religion as an Academic Discipline. Invited address, Western Carolina University, February, l997.

Hood, R. W. Jr. The Serpent Handling Holiness Sects of Southern Appalachia. Invited address, Western Carolina University, March, 1997

Hood, R. W. Jr. When the Spirit Maims and Kills: Appalachian Serpent Handlers Confront Death. Invited Lecture, Christian Brothers University, Memphis, Tennessee April, l997.

Hood, R. W. Jr., On the Constraint of Emption: Pentecostalism Reconsidered in Light of Serpent-Handling Sects. Paper Presented at the American Society of Church History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, April, 1997.

Hood, R. W. Jr. When the Spirit Maims and Killes. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois, August, l997.

Hood, R. W. Jr. When the Spirit Maims and Kills. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois, August, l997.

Hood, Ralph W. Jr. and Morris, R. J. (1997). Evaluation of the legitimacy of conversion experience as a function of the five signs of Mark 16. Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, San Diego, California, November, 1997.

Hood, Ralph W. Jr. & Williamson, W. P. Nuances of Serpent Bite Death: Secular Influences on Theological Perspectives. Paper Presented at the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Cleveland, Tennessee, March, l998.

Hood, Ralph W. Jr. Lessons for the Psychology of Religion from the Contemporary Serpent Handlers of Appalachia. Invited Address CAPS, Chattanooga, Tennessee, March, 1968.

Hood, Ralph W. Jr. An Empirical Test of the Unity Thesis The Structure of Mystical Descriptors in Various Faith Samples. Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Mobile, Alabama, March, l998.

Hocker, D. A. & Hood, R. W. Jr. Pure Consciousness and the Creation of Experience. Paper Presented at Consciousness Studies Symposium, Arizona, l998.