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Christopher Parr
Associate Professor, Chair
314-246-7739
parrch@webster.edu
B. A., University of Canterbury, 1977
M. A., University of Canterbury, 1980
Ph. D., Boston University, 1992 |
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D. Jason Slone
Assistant Professor
314-246-7939
slonej@webster.edu
B. A., College of Wooster, 1995
M. A., Ohio State University, 1999
Ph. D., Western Michigan University, 2002
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D. Jason Slone holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Religion from Western Michigan University, where he studied the cognitive science of religion
with Tom Lawson. Dr. Slone is interested in identifying the types of
religious belief and behavior that recur across cultures and eras, and
explaining those features in terms of the evolved psychological
mechanisms employed in their production and transmission.
Dr. Slone has two research projects in progress. One involves testing
the “theological correctness” (TC) hypothesis. The TC hypothesis claims
that folk religious concepts are more likely to be employed in on-line
religious thought than theologically correct concepts because the
former violate a small number of intuitive ontological expectations
about natural kinds (vs. the latter, which violate a large number) and
thus are easier to process, store, and retrieve from memory than
theologically correct concepts.
The second involves developing and testing a sexual selection account
of religious behavior based on costly signal theory (CST) from
evolutionary psychology. In this view, religious behavior signals to
potential mates that an individual possesses desirable characteristics
for mating (fidelity) and rearing offspring (parental investment).
Preliminary data obtained from recent studies support this hypothesis. |
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Joseph Stimpfl
Associate Professor
314-968-7135
jstimpfl@webster.edu
A. B., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1971
M. Ed., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1976
M. A., University of Pittsburgh, 1986
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1990
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Karen Perniciaro
Department Associate
314-968-7135
kbriley@webster.edu
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ADJUNCT FACULTY |
Laura T. Becker
314-968-7135
Lauramatthews27@webster.edu
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Missouri-St. Louis
M.A., Psychology, University of Missouri-St. Louis
B.A., Psychology, State University of New York at Binghamton |
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Terry D. Cooper
314-984-7121
tcooper@stlcc.edu
Ph.D., Theology and Psychotherapy, St. Louis University
Ed.D., Human Development Counseling, Vanderbilt University
M.A.T.S., Theological Studies, Northern Baptist Theological Seminary
B.A., Philosophy, Southern Illinois University
Post-Doctoral Study: Graduate Theological Union and Emory University |
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Renata MacDougal
314-968-7135
macdoug@webster.edu
B. A., University of California, Los Angeles 1977
M. A., University if California, Los Angeles, 1978 |
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Steve Schenkel
314-968-7042
schenksm@webster.edu
Ph.D., Washington University
M.A., Religious Studies, Webster University
M.M., Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
B.M., Southern Illinois University-Carbondale |
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Annie Stevens, SL
314-968-7135
anniestevens06@webster.edu
Ph.D., Medieval and Renaissance Literature, University of Rochester
M.A., Medieval and Renaissance Literature, University of Rochester
B.A., Eastern Nazarene College
Advanced theological study: Aquinas Institute of Theology |
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