Research Integration
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Publications and Presentations
Recent Publications and Presentations
Fehr. B, Sprecher, S, Underwood, LG (eds.),
The Science of Compassionate Love: Research, Theory, and Practice. Wiley-Blackwell. 2009.
Cover art by Lynn Underwood.
Beach SRH, Wamboldt M, Kaslow N, Heyman RE, First MB, Underwood LG, Reiss D (eds.), Relational Processes and DSM-V: Neuroscience, Assessment, Prevention and Treatment. American Psychiatric Publishing Inc., 2006.
Articles:
Measuring Responsiveness in the Therapeutic Relationship: A Patient Perspective. Reis, Harry T., Clark Margaret S., Pereira-Gray Denis J., Tsai Fen-Fang, Brown Judith B., Stewart Moira, and Underwood Lynn G. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, (2008) 30:4,339-348.
Measuring Spirituality. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Volume 196, Number 9, September 2008, 715-716.
God's Logoi and Human Personhood in St Maximus the Confessor. Studi sull'Oriente Cristiano, Benevitch Grigory, v.13, no.1, 2009. p. 137-153. Acknowledged assistance with editing and translation from Russian into English.
Chapters:
Altruistic Love – Compassionate Love. In Harry T. Reis and Susan Sprecher (eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (2009)
Chapter 1: Compassionate love: A framework for research. The Science of Compassionate Love: Theory Research and Applications, Fehr, Sprecher and Underwood, eds. Blackwell. Wiley- Blackwell. 2009.
Giving of Self for the Good of the Other: Science Research on Compassionate Love and Spirituality. The Love that Does Justice, Edwards, Michael and Post Stephen (eds), Unlimited Love Press (Cleveland, Ohio) 2008, p 133-138.
Presentations:
The human heart and the moral imperative. Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus, Detroit Michigan, April 23, 2009.
The gift of who I am. Workshop, St Paul’s Church, University Heights, Ohio, full day March 21, 2009
Examining the Reliability and Validity of the Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study. Co-authored with Fleetwood Loustalot, Sharon B. Wyatt, Mario Sims; Christopher G. Ellison; Herman A. Taylor. Presentation at the 49th American Heart Association Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention Conference , March 11-14, 2009. An abstract will appear in the Heart Association’s journal Circulation.
Visual Art: Insights on the nature of the self in health and disease. Opening of the Gelbke Art Center, Hiram College, February 2008.
What exactly are ‘Good things’ – the outcomes of interest in human research. Public lecture as part of the Bissell Symposium, Hiram College, March 25, 2008
Spirituality and Love
Dr. Underwood is author of the "Daily Spiritual Experience Scale," an instrument designed to enable researchers to get measures of "ordinary" spiritual experiences. This scale has been used in a variety of different studies. Two articles provide theoretical background and interpretation guidelines for the DSES:
"Ordinary Spiritual Experience: Qualitative Research, Interpretive Guidelines, and Population Distribution for the Daily Spiritual Experience Scale," is designed to help scholars understand, use and score the DSES. Archive for the Psychology of Religion/Archiv fuer Religionspsychologie, 28:1 (2006), 181-218.
"The Daily Spiritual Experience Scale: Development, Theoretical Description, Reliability, Exploratory Factor Analysis, and Preliminary Construct Validity Using Health-Related Data," Annals of Behavioral Medicine, by Underwood and Teresi, which describes its psychometric qualities and some of its applications.
"Interviews with Trappist Monks as a Contribution to Research Methodology in the Investigation of Compassionate Love." Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 35:3(285-302), September 2005.
Spanish, French and Vietnamese translations of the DSES have also been developed.
In 1999, Dr. Underwood, along with others, organized a conference, Empathy, Altruism and Agape: Perspectives on Love in Science and Religion. This conference brought together researchers from many disciplines and was the basis for the 2002 Oxford University Press book which she co-edited, Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue.
Compassionate Love Research Conference Booklet At a May, 2004 conference in Washington, D.C., scholars gathered to report on fifty-some research projects involving the scientific study of compassionate love/altruism. (Booklet artwork is by Dr. Underwood.) Dr. Underwood, then at the Fetzer Institute, was major author of the orignal Request for Proposals and the co-editor of the conference booklet, which includes a summary of the projects.
An important area of focus for Dr. Underwood has been the relations between body, mind and spirit. One offshoot of this was a number of projects relating to health and spirituality. Another was an article by Dr. Underwood on the place of spirituality and religiousness in an inclusive concept of health: "A Working Model of Health: Spirituality and Religiousness as Resources: Applications to Persons with Disabilities"
Biomedical Humanities
"The Human Person Revealed More Fully in Disability, End of Life and In Extremis," presented at European Research Network meeting, "The Human Person in the 21st Century," Thessaloniki, Greece, April 20-23 2007.
"Now Bounded, Now Immeasurable: Perspectives on Time in Disability, in Suffering and at End of Life," Medical Humanities 33:11-15 (2007)
Psycho-Social Aspects of Health
The 1997 ground-breaking text, Measuring Stress: A Guide for Health and Social Scientists (Oxford University Press), co-edited by Dr. Underwood, provided tools for researchers investigating the nature of stress and its relation health.
Another area in which Dr. Underwood successfully brought together researchers from various disciplines resulted in the book Social Support Measurement and Intervention: A Guide for Health and Social Scientists (Oxford University Press, 2000).
Cancer Epidemiology
Dr. Underwood originally trained in epidemiology and pathology. Her publications in that area include:
"Incidence and Aetiology of Melanoma," Gordon(Underwood) L, Lowry WS. The Lancet, 1985, i, 8428; 583.
"Poor Prognosis for Malignant Melanoma in Northern Irelant: A Multivariate Analysis," Gordon(Underwood) LG, Lowry WS, Pedlow PJ, Patterson CC, British Journal of Cancer, 1991: 63; 283-286.