Publications

Keep the black box open: A case for complex and continuous representationalism.

Morgan, J. (2026). Religion, Brain & Behavior, 16(2), 160–165. pdf

Dissecting how ideological orientations predict attributions and policy attitudes toward unhoused individuals.

Sundby, J., Wagoner, J., & Morgan, J. (2026). Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 26(1), e70062. pdf

A terror management perspective on the evolution and function of human morality.

Morgan, J., & Pyszczynski, T. (2025). Handbook of Ethics and Social Psychology, 399–411. pdf

A terror management theory perspective on the human needs for self-esteem, meaning, close relationships, and significance.

Pyszczynski, T., & Morgan, J. (2025). The Routledge International Handbook of Human Significance and Mattering, 71–84. pdf

Psychosocial determinants of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and the mediating role of various attitudes towards science.

Morgan, J., Wagoner, J. A., & Pyszczynski, T. (2023). Vaccines, 11(8), 1310. pdf

A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being.

Hoogeveen, S., Sarafoglou, A., Aczel, B., … Morgan, J., … et al. (2023). Religion, Brain & Behavior, 13(3), 237–283. pdf

The promises and pitfalls of facilitated spiritual experiences for the study of religion.

Morgan, J. (2023). Religion, Brain & Behavior, 13(1), 88–94. pdf

Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics [book review].

Morgan, J. (2023). Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 91(1), 244–246. pdf

Overlapping magisteria: Motivated cognition and the places where science and religion mingle.

Morgan, J. (2021). The Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 25(3). pdf

Do social constraints inhibit analytical atheism? Cognitive style and religiosity in Turkey.

Caldwell-Harris, C. L., Hocaoğlu, S., & Morgan, J. (2020). Journal of Cognition and Culture, 20(1–2), 1–21. pdf

Relational spirituality, differentiation, and mature alterity.

Sandage, S. J., Paine, D. R., & Morgan, J. (2019). In Psychology and spiritual formation in dialogue: Moral and spiritual change in Christian perspective. pdf

Mothers' gardens in arid soil: A study of religious and spiritual coping among marginalized US mothers with depression.

Curtis, C., Morgan, J., & Laird, L. (2018). Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 20(4), 293–320. pdf

Reflective thought, religious belief, and the social foundations hypothesis.

Morgan, J., Wood, C., & Caldwell-Harris, C. (2018). In G. Pennycook (Ed.), The new reflectionism in cognitive psychology: Why reason matters, 16–38. New York: Psychology Press. pdf

Stress and hope at the margins: Qualitative research on depression and religious coping among low-income mothers.

Morgan, J., Curtis, C. E., & Laird, L. D. (2017). Archive for the Psychology of Religion, 39(3), 205–234. pdf

Finding spirits in spirituality: What are we measuring in spirituality and health research?

Laird, L. D., Curtis, C. E., & Morgan, J. R. (2017). Journal of Religion and Health, 56(1), 1–20. pdf

Impacts of religious semantic priming on an intertemporal discounting task: Response times and neural correlates.

Morgan, J., Clark, D., Tripodis, Y., Halloran, C. S., Minsky, A., Wildman, W. J., Durso, R., & McNamara, P. (2016). Neuropsychologia, 89, 403–413. pdf

A developmental model of interreligious competence.

Morgan, J., & Sandage, S. J. (2016). Archive for the Psychology of Religion, 38(2), 129–158. pdf

A potential case of remission of Parkinson's disease.

Smart, K., Durso, R., Morgan, J., & McNamara, P. (2016). Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine, 13(3), 311–315. pdf

Religion and dual-process cognition: A continuum of styles or distinct types?

Morgan, J. (2016). Religion, Brain & Behavior, 6(2), 112–129. pdf

Hope and positive religious coping as predictors of social justice commitment.

Sandage, S. J., & Morgan, J. (2014). Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 17(6), 557–567. pdf

Untangling false assumptions regarding atheism and health.

Morgan, J. (2013). Zygon, 48(1), 9–19. pdf

Religious engagement and varieties of self-regulation: Broadening beyond belief and restraint.

Morgan, J. R. (2019). Doctoral dissertation, Boston University. ProQuest →