Baylor Social-Personality Psychology Lab
Recent Publications
Fergason, K., Nickel, A., Diaz, L., Salman, M., Rowatt, W. C., Hebl, M., Scullin, M. (2023). 0211 Experimental Sleep Restriction, Moral Absolutism, and Religiosity, Sleep, Volume 46, Issue Supplement_1, Pages A93–A94, https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsad077.0211
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Callaway, K., Rowatt, W. C., Al-Kire, R. L., & Schnitker, S. A. (2023). Measuring the (Im)Measurable: On the Psycho-Socio-Spiritual Effects of Aesthetic Experiences of Art. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 51(3), 352–374. https://doi.org/10.1177/00916471231158557
Leman, J., Kurinec, C., & Rowatt W. C. (2023) Overconfident and unaware: Intellectual humility and the calibration of metacognition, The Journal of Positive Psychology, 18:1, 178-196, DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2021.1975155
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Krumrei-Mancuso, E. & Rowatt, W. C. (2023). Humility in novice leaders: Links to servant leadership and followers’ satisfaction with leadership. Journal of Positive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2021.1952647
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Tsang, J., Al-Kire, R. L., Davis, E. B., Dunn, H., & Rowatt, W. C. (2022). Methodological diversity in positive psychology and the psychology of religion. In E. B. Davis, E. L. Worthington, & S. Schnitker (Eds.) Handbook of Positive Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality.
Al-Kire, R. L., Ratchford, J. L, Tsang, J. A., Rowatt, W. C., Schnitker, S. A. (2022). “Prejudice Among the Religious Majority: A Person-Centered Approach to Prejudice Among Christians in the United States.” Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000459.
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Al-Kire, R. L., Pasek, M. H., Tsang, J. A., Leman, J., & Rowatt, W. C. (2022). Protecting America’s borders: Christian nationalism, threat, and attitudes toward immigrants in the United States. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.
Al-Kire, M., Pasek, M., Tsang, J.A., & Rowatt, W.C. (2021). Christian no more: Christian Americans are threatened by their impening minority status. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Meagher, B. R., Leman, J. C., Heidenga, C. A., Ringquist, M. R., & Rowatt, W. C. (2021). Intellectual humility in conversation: Distinct behavioral indicators of self and peer ratings. Journal of Positive Psychology, 16, 417-429. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2020.1738536
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Warner, E. T., Kent, B. V., Zhang, Y., Argentieri, A., Rowatt, W. C., Pargament, K., Koenig, H. G. et al. Shields, A. (2021). The Study of Stress, Spirituality, and Health (SSSH): Psychometric evaluation and initial validation of the SSSH baseline spirituality survey. Religions, 12, 150ff. doi:10.3390/rel12030150
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Rowatt, W. C. & Al-Kire, R. L. (2021). Dimensions of religiousness and their connection to racial, ethnic, and atheist prejudices. Current Opinion in Psychology, 40, 86-91.
Rowatt, W.C., Al-Kire, R. L., Dunn, H., Leman, J. (2020). Attitudes toward separating immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 20, 118-142.
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Lorona, R., Fergus, T., & Rowatt, W. C. (2020). The social psychology of emotions and religion (pp. 44-58). In J. Morehead & B. Benziger (Eds.). A charitable orthopathy: Christian perspectives on emotions in multifaith engagement. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications.
Rowatt, W. C. (2019). Associations between religiosity, political ideology, and attitudes toward immigrants: A mediation path-analytic approach. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 11, 368-381.​​
Haggard, M.C., Kaelen, R., Saroglou, V., Klein, O. & Rowatt, W. C. (2019). Religion’s role in the illusion of gender equality: Supraliminal and subliminal religious priming increases benevolent sexism. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 11, 392-398.
Krumrei, L., Haggard, M., LaBouff, J., & Rowatt, W. C. (2019). Links between intellectual humility and acquiring knowledge. Journal of Positive Psychology, 15, 155-170.
Cranney, S., Leman, J., Fergus, T.A., Rowatt, W. C. (2018). Hell anxiety as non-pathological fear. Mental Health, Religion, & Culture, 21, 867-883.
Fergus, T. A., & Rowatt, W. C. (2018). Examining associations between thought-action fusion and state mental contamination following an in vivo thought induction task. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 17, 16-22.
Haggard, M., Rowatt, W. C., Leman, J. C., Meagher, B., Moore, C., Fergus, T., ... & Howard-Snyder, D. (2018). Finding middle ground between intellectual arrogance and intellectual servility: Development and assessment of the limitations-owning intellectual humility scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 124, 184-193.
Leman, J., Hunter, W., Fergus, T.A., Rowatt, W. C. (2018). Secure attachment to God uniquely linked to psychological health in a national, random sample of American adults. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 28, 162-173.
Lorona, R., Rowatt, W.C., Fergus, T.A. (2018). Assessing mental contamination: Development and preliminary validation of the State Mental Contamination Scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 100, 281-291.
Van Tongeren, D. R., Davis, D. E., Hook, J. N., Rowatt, W. C., & Worthington, E. L., Jr. (2018). Religious differences in reporting and expressing humility. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 10, 174-184.
Hoyland, M. A., Rowatt, W. C., & Latendresse, S. J. (2017). Prior delinquency and depression differentially predict conditional associations between discrete patterns of adolescent religiosity and adult alcohol use patterns. Substance abuse: research and treatment, 10, 1178221816686060.
Schmitt et al. … Rowatt, W. C. et al. (2017). Narcissism and the Strategic Pursuit of Short-Term Mating: Pervasive Links across 11 World Regions of the International Sexuality Description Project-2. Psychological Topics, 26, 89-137.
Kang, L. L., Rowatt, W. C., & Fergus, T. A. (2016). Moral foundations and obsessive-compulsive symptoms: A preliminary investigation. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 11, 22-30.
Meagher, B. R., Leman, J. C., Bias, J. P., Latendresse, S. J., & Rowatt, W. C. (2015). Contrasting self-report and consensus ratings of intellectual humility and arrogance. Journal of Research in Personality, 58, 35-45.