Measurement: The boon and bane of investigating religion.

Gorsuch, Richard L.·1984·American Psychologist
DOI 10.1037//0003-066x.39.3.228

Cites (20)

  1. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    Kuhn, Thomas S., Schlegel, Richard · 1963 · Physics Today
  2. Personal Religious Orientation and Prejudice.
    Gordon Willard Allport, J. Michael Ross · 1967 · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  3. Attitudes towards objects as predictors of single and multiple behavioral criteria.
    Fishbein, Martin, Ajzen, Icek · 1974 · Psychological Review
  4. The individual and his religion
    Gordon Willard Allport · 1950
  5. The Construction and Preliminary Validation of a Measure of Reported Mystical Experience
    Hood, Ralph W. · 1975 · Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
  6. Religion as Prosocial: Agent or Double Agent?
    Batson, C. Daniel · 1976 · Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
  7. ’Psychology and Religion’
    Jung, Carl · 2017 · Religion Today: A Reader
  8. The Measurement of Attitudes.
    Thurstone, L. L. · 1950 · Readings in general psychology.
  9. Words, deeds and the perception of consequences and responsibility in action situations.
    Schwartz, Shalom H. · 1968 · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  10. Moral obligation and attitudes: Their relation to behavioral intentions.
    Richard L. Gorsuch, John Ortberg · 1983 · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Show all 20 references

Cited by (7)

  1. Advances in the conceptualization and measurement of religion and spirituality: Implications for physical and mental health research.
    Hill, Peter C., Pargament, Kenneth I. · 2003 · American Psychologist
  2. Religion, self-regulation, and self-control: Associations, explanations, and implications.
    McCullough, Michael E., Willoughby, Brian L. B. · 2009 · Psychological Bulletin
  3. Religiosity and ethical behavior in organizations: a symbolic interactionist perspective
    Weaver, Gary R., Agle, Bradley R. · 2002 · The Academy of Management Review
  4. The Psychology of Religion and Spirituality? Yes and No
    Pargament, Kenneth I. · 1999 · The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion
  5. Value Priorities and Religiosity in Four Western Religions
    Schwartz, Shalom H., Huismans, Sipke · 1995 · Social Psychology Quarterly

See all 334

How to cite

Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.

This page
CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Measurement: The boon and bane of investigating religion. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1037//0003-066x.39.3.228
The paper
Gorsuch, R. L. (1984). Measurement: The boon and bane of investigating religion. American Psychologist. https://doi.org/10.1037//0003-066x.39.3.228

Data sources

Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.

Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).

Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.