Graduate Student, Social and Developmental Psychology
Harvard University, Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Peterhouse
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Nicholas J. S. Gibson
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About
My research interests are in religious cognition - how people represent God in their minds. I am specifically interested in religious cognition pertaining to spiritual and religious struggles and anger toward God. I am currently working towards a Ph.D. exploring the cognitive processes underlying anger towards God.
Other research interests include: cognitive and emotional processes underlying atheism and non-belief, the point of contact and conflict between people's beliefs about God and emotional experience of God, attachment to God, and the psychology of grace.
I received my undergraduate degree in psychology (summa cum laude, phi beta kappa) from Harvard University in 2004, where I was also a research assistant to Dr. Todd Pittinsky at the Kennedy School of Government and Prof. Brian Little at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study. I joined the Psychology and Religion Research Group at the University of Cambridge in 2005 as a research assistant to Dr. Nicholas Gibson, and matriculated as a graduate student in 2006. When I am not working on my Ph.D., I can be found at the public library or at the park with my two young children.
