Research area:
Personality and social psychology of religion

Research themes:
(1) Religion and personality (Big Five; sense of humor; need for closure)
(2) Religion, morality (values, moral principlism), and social behavior (prosocial, antisocial, submission)
(3) Religion, culture, and acculturation
(4) Specific orientations and groups: fundamentalism, cults
(5) Positive emotions, religion and spirituality

Awards:
Early Career Award, APA-Division 36 (2005)
Quinquennial Godin Prize, International Association for the Psychology of Religion (2006)
Mentoring Award, APA-Division 36 (2013)

International Service
President of the International Association for the Psychology of Religion (2011- )
Associate Editor of the International Journal for the Psychology of Religion (2007- )
Guest Editor of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (2011, 42, 8)

Primary Interests:

Attitudes and Beliefs
Culture and Ethnicity
Emotion, Mood, Affect
Ethics and Morality
Helping, Prosocial Behavior
Personality, Individual Differences
Persuasion, Social Influence

Attitudes and Beliefs
Culture and Ethnicity
Emotion, Mood, Affect
Ethics and Morality

Helping, Prosocial Behavior
Personality, Individual Differences
Persuasion, Social Influence

Research Group or Laboratory:

Center for Psychology of Religion
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Books:

Saroglou, V. (Ed.). (2013, in press). Religion, personality, and social behavior. New York, NY: Psychology Press.

Journal Articles:

Other Publications:

Saroglou, V., & Cohen, A. B. (Eds.). (2011). Special issue on religion and culture: Perspectives from cultural and cross-cultural psychology. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 42(8).

Courses Taught:

Methods of Observation
Personality Psychology
Psychology of Religion

Methods of Observation
Personality Psychology

Psychology of Religion

Vassilis Saroglou
Psychologie Sociale et des Organisations
Université catholique de Louvain
10, place du Cardinal Mercier
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium

Phone: + 32 10 47 82 74
Fax: + 32 10 47 48 34