- Dr. Rafael Bejarano, Associate Professor
- Dr. Aneeq Khan, Professor
- Dr. Travis Langley, Distinguished Professor, Department Chair
- Dr. Paul Williamson, Professor
- Tyler Mauch, Adjunct Instructor
SCHOLARLY WORKS
Our students and faculty members keep busy with a variety of scholarly activities. Here are some recent examples of our faculty members' accomplishments from this decade. This is NOT an all-inclusive list. These are just examples because otherwise some of these lists would be impractically long.
Professional Organization Recognition
Dr. Aneeq Khan served as President and Past-President of the Southwestern Psychological Association. He was the Distinguished Foreign Speaker at the International Conference on Health and Wellbeing held at Lahore College for Women University in Pakistan.
Dr. Travis Langley was a keynote speaker at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Paul Williamson received the Distinguished Service Award from the Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality (American Psychological Association Division 36).
Books Authored
Examples
Langley, T. (2022). Batman and psychology: A dark and stormy knight (2nd ed.). Wiley & Sons, Turner Publishing.
Williamson, W. P. (2020). Conjectures and controversy in the study of fundamentalism. Brill.
Williamson, W. P., & Hood, R. W., Jr. (2016). Psychology and spiritual transformation in a substance abuse program: The Lazarus Project. Lexington.
Williamson, W. P., & Kabogan, S. (2024). An international review of empirical research on the psychology of religious fundamentalism. Brill.
Examples of Journal Articles
Bejarano, R., & Foltz, A. (2013). Function transfer in human operant experiments: The roles of stimulus pairings and covert verbal mediation. Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior Bulletin, 29(1), 8-11.
Williamson, W. P. (2023). Christian Serpent Handling Sects of Appalachia and their fundamentals of faith. [Special issue]. Zeitschrift für Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik, 7, 13-35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41682-022-00113-4
Williamson, W. P., & Khan, A. (2019). Invited article: The Bi-Directional Spirituality Scale: Construction and initial evidence for validity (Invited Article). Spiritual Psychology & Counseling, 4, 7-23.
Williamson, W. P. & Silver, C. F. (2021). In the face of adversity: A phenomenological study among Bible-believing Christians [Special Issue]. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 31(3), 189-204. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2021.1899640
Recent Chapters
Hood, R. W., Jr., & Williamson, W. P. (2024). An Appalachian indigenous tradition of faith. In A. Dueck & L. Sundararajan (Eds.), Values and indigenous psychology in the age of machine and market [Palgrave studies in indigenous psychology). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53196-5_9
Langley, T. (2024). Terror management and the worm at the core. In J. Maberry (Ed.), Shadows & verse: Classic dark poems with celebrity commentary (pp. 99-100). WordFire.
Williamson, W. P., & Hood, R. W., Jr. (2024). An Appalachian indigenous tradition of faith. In A. Dueck & L. Sundararajan (Eds.), Values and indigenous psychology in the age of machine and market [Palgrave studies in indigenous psychology). Palgrave Macmillan.
Examples of Books Edited
Langley, T. (2023). Doctor Who psychology: Times change (2nd ed.) Turner Publishing.
Langley, T. (2023). Stranger Things psychology: Life upside down. Turner Publishing.
Langley, T. (2024). The Joker psychology: Evil clowns and the women who love them (2nd ed.). Popular Culture Psychology.
Langley, T., & Goodfriend, W. (2024). The Handmaid’s Tale psychology: Seeing off red. Turner Publishing.
Langley, T., & Langley, A. (2024). Spider-Man psychology: Untangling webs. Turner Publishing.
Examples of Presentations
Khan, A., Williamson, W. P., & Hassan, S. (2018, January). Bi-Directional Spirituality Scale: Validity, reliability, and cross-cultural comparisons. International Conference on Gender, Religion, & Culture: Issues, Challenges, & Prospects, Lahore, Pakistan.
Langley, T. (2021, August). Beyond Batman: How stories teach psychology and facilitate therapeutic dialogue [Keynote address]. American Psychological Association, San Diego, CA.
Langley, T. (2024, February). The power of story in fairy tales old and new: How psychology shapes stories and stories advance real psychology. Fundacion de Psicologia Analitica Junguiana (Jungian Analytical Psychology Foundation). Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Roberts, K. & Bejarano, R. (2021). Increasing the efficiency of college instruction through the recombination of minimal units of information: A preliminary investigation. Henderson State University Virtual Research Symposium, Arkadelphia, AR.
Williamson, W. P. (2021, March). Invited presentation: Conjectures and controversy in the study of fundamentalism. International and Interdisciplinary Workshop on Religious Fundamentalism: New Challenges in Theory and Empirics across Cultures and Religions, Münster, Germany.
Ongoing Online Activities
"Beyond Heroes and Villains" - Psychology Today column by Dr. Travis Langley