Lee A. Kirkpatrick

Publications by Area/Topic

[Note: Some items appear under multiple topics]

 

Evolutionary Psychology


Kirkpatrick, L. A., Waugh, C. E., Valencia, A., & Webster, G. D. (2002). The functional domain-specificity of self-esteem and the differential prediction of aggression. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 82, 756-767. [abstract

Kirkpatrick, L. A., & Ellis, B. J. (2001). An evolutionary approach to self-esteem: Multiple
domains and multiple functions. In M. Clark & G. Fletcher (Eds.), The Blackwell handbook of
social psychology, Vol. 2: Interpersonal Processes (pp. 411-436). Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

Buss, D. M., Shackelford, T. K., Kirkpatrick, L. A., & Larsen, R. J. (2001).  A half century of mate preferences: The cultural evolution of values. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 63, 491-503. [abstract]

DeKay, W. T., Haselton, M. G., & Kirkpatrick, L. A. (2000). Reversing figure and ground in the rationality debate: An evolutionary perspective [commentary on Stanovich & West]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 670-671. [abstract]

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1999). Toward an evolutionary psychology of religion and personality.  Journal of Personality, 67, 921-952. [abstract]

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1999). Individual differences in attachment and reproductive strategies:
Commentary on Buss & Greiling. Journal of Personality, 67, 245-258. [abstract]

Buss, D. M., Shackelford, T. K., Kirkpatrick, L. A., Choe, J. C., Lim, H. K., Hasegawa, M.,
Hasegawa, T., & Bennett, K. (1999). Jealousy and the nature of beliefs about infidelity: Tests of
competing hypotheses about sex differences in the United States, Korea, and Japan. Personal
Relationships, 6, 125-150.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1998). Evolution, pair-bonding, and reproductive strategies: A
reconceptualization of adult attachment. In J. A. Simpson & W. S. Rholes (Eds.), Attachment
theory and close relationships (pp. 353-393). New York: Guilford.

Sharpsteen, D. J., & Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1997). Romantic jealousy and adult romantic attachment.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 627-640.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1996). Assault on Comparator-Gene Theory. ASCAP [Across Species
Comparison and Psychopathology] Newsletter, 9(11), 14-15.

Kirkpatrick, L. A., & Haselton, M. G. (1996). What is (and isn't) evolutionary psychology. ISSPR
Bulletin, 13(1), 4-8. 

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1995). Review of The moral animal: Why we are the way we are: The new
science of evolutionary psychology, by R. Wright. International Journal for the Psychology of
Religion, 5, 277-280.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1993). Review of Brain, culture, and the human spirit: Essays from an
emergent evolutionary perspective, edited by J. B. Ashbrook. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 32, 408.

Levinger, G., & Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1992). Biological versus social psychological bases of mate
selection (Commentary on Kenrick & Keefe). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 15(1), 103-104.
 

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Attachment and Religion


Rowatt, W. C., & Kirkpatrick, L. A. (2002). Dimensions of attachment to God and their relation to affect, religiosity, and personality constructs. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 41, 637-651. [abstract]

Kirkpatrick, L. A., Shillito, D. J., & Kellas, S. L. (1999).  Loneliness, social support, and
perceived relationships with God.  Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 16, 513-522.  [abstract

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1999). Attachment and religious representations and behavior. In J. Cassidy &
P. R. Shaver (Eds.), Handbook of attachment: Theory, research, and clinical applications (pp. 803-822). New York: Guilford.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1998). God as a substitute attachment figure: A longitudinal study of adult
attachment style and religious change in college students. Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin, 24, 961-973. [abstract]

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1997). A longitudinal study of changes in religious belief and behavior as a
function of individual differences in adult attachment style. Journal for the Scientific Study of
Religion, 36, 207-217.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1995). Attachment and religious experience. In R. W. Hood, Jr., Handbook of
religious experience: Theory and practice (pp. 446-475). Birmingham, AL: Religious Education
Press.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1994). The role of attachment in religious belief and behavior. In D. Perlman
& K. Bartholomew (Eds.), Advances in Personal Relationships, Vol. 5 (pp. 239-265). London:
Jessica Kingsley.

Kirkpatrick, L. A., & Shaver, P. R. (1992). An attachment-theoretical approach to romantic love
and religious belief. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 18, 266-275.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1992). An attachment-theoretical approach to the psychology of religion.
International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 2, 3-28. [Reprinted (1997) in B. Spilka &
D. McIntosh (Eds.), Psychology of religion: Theoretical approaches (pp. 114-133). New York:
Westview.]

Kirkpatrick, L. A., & Shaver, P. R. (1990). Attachment theory and religion: Childhood
attachments, religious beliefs, and conversion. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 29,
315-334.
 

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Other Psychology of Religion


Laythe, B., Finkel, D., Bringle, R., & Kirkpatrick, L. A. (2002). Religious fundamentalism as a predictor of prejudice: A two-component model. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 41, 623-635. [abstract]

Laythe, B., Finkel, D., & Kirkpatrick, L. A. (2001). Predicting prejudice from religious fundamentalism and right-wing authoritarianism: A multiple-regression approach.  Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 40, 1-10.  [abstract]

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1999). Toward an evolutionary psychology of religion and personality.  Journal of Personality, 67, 921-952. [abstract]

Courtenay, C. E., & Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1999). Concepts of God and parental images. In P. C.
Hill & R. W. Hood, Jr. (Eds.), Measures of religiosity (pp. 390-393). Birmingham: Religious
Education Press.

Courtenay, C. E., & Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1999). Nondoctrinal religion scales. In P. C. Hill & R. W.
Hood, Jr. (Eds.), Measures of religiosity (pp. 37-40). Birmingham, AL: Religious Education
Press. 

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1997). Religion and well-being. The Virginia Psychologist, 41(2), 1-17.

Paloutzian, R. F., & Kirkpatrick, L. A. (Eds.) (1995).  Religious influences on personal and
societal well-being.  Special issue of Journal of Social Issues, 51(2).

Paloutzian, R. F., & Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1995). The scope of religious influences on personal and
societal well-being. Journal of Social Issues, 51(2), 1-11.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1995). Review of Back to Darwin: The Scientific Case for Deistic Evolution, by M. A. Corey. Review of Religious Research, 37, 172-173.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1995). Review of The moral animal: Why we are the way we are: The new
science of evolutionary psychology, by R. Wright. International Journal for the Psychology of
Religion, 5, 277-280.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1995). On the use and misuse of quantitative research methods in the
psychology of religion. Psychology of Religion Newsletter, 20(1), 1-3. 

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1993). Fundamentalism, Christian orthodoxy, and intrinsic religious
orientation as predictors of discriminatory attitudes. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion,
32, 256-268.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1993). Review of Brain, culture, and the human spirit: Essays from an
emergent evolutionary perspective, edited by J. B. Ashbrook. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 32, 408.

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

Kirkpatrick, L. A., Hood, R. W., Jr., & Hartz, G. (1991). Fundamentalist religion conceptualized
in terms of Rokeach's theory of the open and closed mind: A theoretical model and its
implications for mental health. In M. Lynn & D. Moberg (Eds.), Research in the Social Scientific
Study of Religion, Vol. 3 (pp. 157-170). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. 

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1991). Review of Prolegomena to the psychological study of religion, by B.
Beit-Hallahmi. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 30, 552-553.

Kirkpatrick, L. A., & Hood, R. W., Jr. (1990). 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. (1989). A psychometric analysis of the Allport-Ross and Feagin measures of
intrinsic-extrinsic religiousness. In M. Lynn & D. Moberg (Eds.), Research in the social scientific
study of religion, Vol. 1. (pp. 1-31). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1988). The Conway-Siegelman data on religious cults: Kilbourne's Analysis
Reassessed (Again). Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 27(1), 117-121.

Spilka, B., Shaver, P. R., & Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1985). General attribution theory for the
psychology of religion. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 24, 1-20. [Reprinted (1994) in Polish translation in Kwartalnik Religioznawczy, 5/6, 35-62. Also reprinted (1997) in B.
Spilka & D. McIntosh (Eds.), Psychology of religion: Theoretical approaches (pp. 153-170). New York: Westview.]
 

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Adult Attachment and Close Relationships


Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1998). Evolution, pair-bonding, and reproductive strategies: A
reconceptualization of adult attachment. In J. A. Simpson & W. S. Rholes (Eds.), Attachment
theory and close relationships (pp. 353-393). New York: Guilford.

Sharpsteen, D. J., & Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1997). Romantic jealousy and adult romantic attachment.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 627-640.

Carpenter, E. M., & Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1996). Attachment style and presence of a romantic
partner as moderators of psychophysiological responses to a stressful laboratory situation.
Personal Relationships, 3, 351-367.

Feeney, B. C., & Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1996). The effects of adult attachment and presence of
romantic partners on physiological responses to stress. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 70, 255-270.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1996). New developments in adult attachment: A call for re-Bowlbyization.
(Review of Attachment in adults: Clinical and developmental perspectives, ed. by M. B. Sperling & W. H. Berman, and Patterns of relating: An adult attachment perspective, by M. L. West & A. E. Sheldon-Keller.) Contemporary Psychology, 41, 811-813.

Kirkpatrick, L. A., & Hazan, C. (1994). Attachment styles and close relationships: A four-year
prospective study. Personal Relationships, 1, 123-142.

Davis, K. E., Kirkpatrick, L. A., Levy, M. B., & O'Hearn, R. E. (1994). Stalking the elusive love
style: Attachment styles, love styles and relationship development. In R. Erber & R. Gilmour
(Eds.), Theoretical frameworks for personal relationships (pp. 179-210). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Kirkpatrick, L. A., & Davis, K. E. (1994). Attachment style, gender, and relationship stability: A
longitudinal analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 502-512. [Also
reprinted in Italian translation in L. Carli (Ed.), Attaccamento e rapporto di coppia (pp.
292-318). Milano, Italy: Raffaello Cortina Editore, 1995.]
 

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Statistics, Psychometrics, & Research Methods


Kirkpatrick, L. A. & Feeney, B. C. (in press).  A simple guide to SPSS for Windows: For versions 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, & 11.0 (revised edition).  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. & Feeney, B. C. (2001).  A simple guide to SPSS for Windows: For versions 8.0, 9.0, and 10.0 (revised edition).  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. & Feeney, B. C. (2000).  A simple guide to SPSS for Windows: For versions
8.0 and 9.0 (revised edition).  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. & Feeney, B. C. (1999).  A simple guide to SPSS for Windows: For version
8.0.  Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. & Feeney, B. C. (1998).  A simple guide to SPSS for Windows: For versions
6.0, 6.1, 7.0, and 7.5.  Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1997). The effects of multiple determinacy and measurement error on trait-
behavior and behavior-behavior relations: An integrated conceptual model. Personality and Social
Psychology Bulletin, 23, 199-209.

Kirkpatrick, L. A., & Feeney, B. C. (1996).  A simple guide to SPSS/PC+: For versions 4.0 and 5.0.  Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole. 

Kirkpatrick, L. A., & Nezlek, J. (1993). Escalation of commitment and nonorthogonal analysis of
variance revisited: A comment on Schoorman, Bobko, and Rentsch. Journal of Applied Social
Psychology, 23, 98-106.

Schouten, P. G. W., & Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1993). Artifact in the total score of the Miller
Assessment for Preschoolers. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 11, 67-71.

Schouten, P. G. W., & Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1993). Questions about the Validity of the Miller
Assessment for Preschoolers. Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 13, 7-28.

Kirkpatrick, L. A., & Schouten, P. G. W. (1993). Response to Miller and Humphrey & King-
Thomas. Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 13, 50-61.

Schouten, P. G. W., & Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1991). Test Review: Miller Assessment for
Preschoolers. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 9, 179-185.
 

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Miscellaneous


Belanger, H., Kirkpatrick, L. A., & Derks, P. (1998). The effects of humor on verbal and imaginal
problem-solving. Humor, 11, 21-31.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1994). Mystery solved: The psychology of near-death experiences. (Review of
Dying to live: Near-death experiences, by S. Blackmore.) Contemporary Psychology, 39, 906-907.

Kirkpatrick, L. A., & Epstein, S. (1992). Cognitive-experiential self-theory and subjective
probability: Further evidence for two conceptual systems. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 63, 534-544.

Ciarlo, J. A., Tweed, D. L, Shern, D. L., Kirkpatrick, L. A., & Sachs-Ericsson, N. (1992).
Validation of indirect methods to estimate need for mental health services: Concepts, strategy,
and general conclusions. Evaluation and Program Planning, 15, 115-131.

Ciarlo, J. A., Shern, D. L., Tweed, D. L., Kirkpatrick, L. A., & Sachs-Ericsson, N. (1992). The
Colorado Social Health Survey of mental health service needs: Sampling, instrumentation, and
major findings. Evaluation and Program Planning, 15, 133-147.

Tweed, D. L., Ciarlo, J. A., Kirkpatrick, L. A., & Shern, D. L. (1992). Empirical validity of
indirect mental health needs-assessment models in Colorado. Evaluation and Program Planning,
15, 181-194.

Kirkpatrick, L. A., & Shaver, P. R. (1988). Fear and affiliation reconsidered from a stress and
coping perspective: The importance of cognitive clarity and fear-reduction. Journal of Social and
Clinical Psychology, 7, 214-233.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1987). Review of Otherworld journeys: Accounts of near-death experience in medieval and modern times, by C. G. Zaleski. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 26, 566.
 

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