AB Texas Christian University (Psychology, Philosophy)

RICHARD L. GORSUCH, PhD

VITA

Education

AB Texas Christian University (Psychology, Philosophy)

MA University of Illinois (Psychology)

PhD University of Illinois (Personality; Social Psychology and Sociology)

MDiv Vanderbilt University

Employment and Experience

Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, 195961

Acting Psychological Trainee, State Hospital North, Orofino, Idaho, summer 1960

Predoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Mental Health, Public Health Service, 196163

Research Associate, Vanderbilt University, 196365

Instructor, Vanderbilt University, 196566

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University and Director of Statistical Consultation, Vanderbilt Computer Center, 196668

Kennedy Assistant Professor of Psychology, The Kennedy Center for Research On Education and Human Development, George Peabody College for Teachers, 196870

Kennedy Associate Professor of Psychology, George Peabody College for Teachers, 197073

Associate Professor, Institute of Behavioral Research, Texas Christian University, 197375

Associate Professor/Professor of Social Work and Psychology, University of Texas at Arlington, 197579

Professor of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary, 19792006

Senior Professor of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary, 2007 - present

Visiting Professor, Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand 1986-87

Major Professional Memberships and Honors

Diplomate in Assessment (charter member; ABEP status in development; subdivision of Division 12, APA)

American Psychological Association, Fellow of Div. 5 & 36; Member Div. 8.

President of Division 36, American Psychological Association, 199091

Member, Council of Representatives, Amer. Psych. Assoc., 198485, 198990

Religious Research Association

Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (elected member; limited to 60 nation wide)

Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (Fellow)

William James Award, Division 36, American Psychological Association, 1986

C. Davis Weyerhaeuser Award for Excellence (Fuller Theological Seminary; 2004)

Sample Bibliographic Listings

American Men and Women of Science

Who's Who in Science and Engineering; in Religion; in the World.

2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century

Editorial Positions

Editor Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Vol. 1317)

Consulting Editor Educational and Psychological Measurement 1982-2002?

Multivariate Behavioral Research (1971-)

Review of Religious Research (1991-2)

Manuscript Reviewer About 12 per year plus occasional other review (for book publisher or granting organization)

Other Activities

California Psychology License PSY10794 (social/organizational). 1989present (inactive)

Served on numerous membership, convention program, fellowship, and other professional society committees.

Consultantships and training programs have been conducted with numerous nonprofit, business, military, and professional organizations. Recent consults have been on measurement issues with the Psychological Corporation, on data analysis for the Air Force Mishap Prevention program, doing conflict resolution in several non-profit organizations, and leadership development in Southeast Asia.

Sixteen accreditation site visit evaluations for the American Psychological Association (e.g., Brigham Young, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Wheaton).

Invited addresses have been given to several colleges, universities, and organizations.

Principal, Group Conflict Resolution, 2005-present

Member of Board of Directors, Thai Christian Foundation, 2009-present

Publications and Presentations

These are divided into areas of Measurement/Methodology, Personality & Social Psychology, Psychology of Religion, and Substance Abuse.

Each is subdivided into "Books, Manuals, and Monographs," “Chapters in Books” "Papers," "Book Reviews," and "Presentations" (but only those presentations which were not also published).

Publications Related to Measurement/Methodology

Books, Manuals, Monographs

Gorsuch, R. L. (Ed.). (1968). Computer programs for statistical analysis. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Computer Center.

Spielberger, C. D., Gorsuch, R. L., & Lushene, R. E. (1970). The StateTrait Anxiety Inventory Manual. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.

Gorsuch, R. L. (1974). Factor analysis. Philadelphia: Saunders Press.

Gorsuch, R. L., & Van Houten, T. J. (1977). Longhorn Council boy population estimates, 19751995. Report to Longhorn Council, Boy Scouts of America, Fort Worth, TX.

Gorsuch, R. L. (1983). Factor analysis (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Fantuzzo, J. W., Blakey, W. A., & Gorsuch, R. L. (1989). WAISR administration and scoring training manual. San Antonio, TX: The Psychological Corp., Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.

Gorsuch, R. L. (19901999). UniMult: for Univariate and Multivariate Data Analysis. (Computer program and Guide). Pasadena, CA: UniMult.

Chapters in Books

Gorsuch, R. L. (1980). Identifying the religiously committed person. In J. R. Tisdale (Ed.), Growing edges in the psychology of religion. Chicago: Nelson Hall.

Gorsuch, R. L. (1981). Bivariate analysis: Analysis of variance. In R. M. Grinnell, Jr. (Ed.), Social work research & evaluation. Peacock Publishers.

Gorsuch, R. L. (1981). Evaluation at the communityprogram level. In S. Schinke (Ed.), Behavioral methods in social welfare: Helping children, adults, and families in community settings. New York: Aldine Publishing.

Roid, G. H., & Gorsuch, R. L. (1984). Development and clinical use of testinterpretive programs on microcomputers. In M. D. Schwartz (Ed.), Using computers in clinical practice: Psychotherapy and mental health applications. New York: Haworth Press.

Gorsuch, R. L. (1986). Measuring attitudes, interests, sentiments, and values. In R. Johnson & R. B. Cattell (Eds.), Functional psychological testing (pp. 316333). New York: Brunner/Mazel.

Gorsuch, R. L. (1988). Discussion of Cattell's "Handling prediction from psychological states and roles by modulation theory." In S. G. Cole & R. G. Demaree (Eds.), Applications of interactionist psychology: Essays in honor of Saul B. Sells (pp. 211222). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Gorsuch, R. L. (1988). Exploratory factor analysis. In J. Nesselroade & R. B. Cattell (Eds.), Handbook of multivariate and experimental psychology (pp. 231258). New York:

Plenum Publishing.

Gorsuch, R. L. (1990). Pitfalls and possibilities in processing people: A psychometric perspective. In R. A. Hunt, J. E. Hinkle, Jr., & H. N. Malony (Eds.), Clergy assessment and career development (pp. 5560). Nashville: Abingdon Press.

Gorsuch, R. L. (1996). Results of the WISC-III Canadian Study. In D. Wechsler (Ed.). WISC-III: Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (3rd. ed.): Manual Canadian Study. Toronto, Canada: The Psychological Corporation, Harcourt Brace.

Saklofske, D. H., Patterson, C. A., Gorsuch, R. L., & Tulsky, D. S. (1997). Discussion and guidelines for using the WAIS-III Canadian norms. In D. Wechsler, WAIS-III: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (3rd ed.) Canadian technical Manual. Toronto, Canada: The Psychological Corporation.

Gorsuch, R. L. (2001). Results of the WAIS-III Canadian Study: Norms development. In D. Wechsler, WAIS-III: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (3rd ed.) Canadian Technical Manual. Toronto, Canada: The Psychological Corporation.

Gorsuch, R. L. (2003). Factor analysis. In J. A. Schinka & W. F. Velicer (Vol. Eds.), Handbook of psychology. Vol.2: Research methods in psychology (pp. 143-164). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

Mershon, B., & Gorsuch, R. L. (2003). Number of factors in the personality sphere: Does increase in factors increase predictability of real-life criteria? In G. J. Boyle & D. H. Saklofske (Eds.), Individual differences (pp. 675-680). London: Sage (UK). Reprint of Mershon & Gorsuch, 1988.

Gorsuch, R. L. (2006). The Pyramids of Sciences and of Humanities: Implications for the Search for Religious “Truth.” In A. Dueck (Ed.), Integrating Psychology and Theology: Research and Reflections (pp. 335-357). Pasadena, CA: Fuller Seminary Press.

Gorsuch, R.L. (2006). Supplemental chapter. In 16PF Express Edition: Administrator’s Manual

for the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire.

Papers

Cattell, R. B., & Gorsuch, R. L. (1963). The uniqueness and significance of simple structure demonstrated by contrasting organic "natural structure" and "random structure" data. Psychometrika, 28, 5567.

Pierson, G., & Gorsuch, R. L. (1963). Clinical validation and usefulness of the Altus in screening for intelligence. Psychological Reports, 13, 8789.

Cattell, R. B., & Gorsuch, R. L. (1965). The definition and measurement of national morale and morality. Journal of Social Psychology, 67, 7796.

Gorsuch, R. L., & Spielberger, C.D. (1965). Predictive and concurrent validity of the Altus Information Inventory with high school students. Psychological Reports, 16, 633636.

Gorsuch, R. L., (1966). The general factor in the Test Anxiety Questionnaire.

Psychological Reports, 19, 308.

Gorsuch, R. L. (1966). A FORTRAN item analysis program for items scored on a categorical or interval basis. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 26, 179183.

Gorsuch, R. L. (1970). A comparison of Biquartimin, Maxplane, Promax, and Varimax. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 30, 861-872. Presented at the meeting of the Midwestern Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology, 1968.

Gorsuch, R. L. (1971, January). Evaluating commitment to Christianity. Christian Advocate, 1314.

Gorsuch, R. L., Henighan, R. P., & Barnard, C. (1972). Locus of control: An example of dangers in using children's scales with children. Child Development, 43, 579590.

Gorsuch, R. L., & McFarland, S. (1972). Single vs. multipleitem scales for measuring religious values. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 11(1), 5364. Reprinted in H. N. Malony (Ed.), Current perspectives in the psychology of religion, Eerdmans, 1977.

Gorsuch, R. L. (1973). Data analysis of correlated independent variables. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 8(1), 89107.

Gorsuch, R. L. (1973). Using Bartlett's significance test to determine the number of factors to extract. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 33, 361364.

Gorsuch, R. L., O'Connor, J., & Shamsavari, F. (1973). Important issues: An approach to measuring stages of moral judgment and evaluating the nature of the stages. Unpublished manuscript, George Peabody College for Teachers.

Gorsuch, R. L., & Dreger, R. (1979). "Big Jiffy," a more sophisticated factor analysis and rotation program. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 39, 209214.

Gorsuch, R. L. (1980). Factor score reliabilities and domain validities. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 40(4), 895897.

Gorsuch, R. L., & Venable, G. D. (1983). Development of an "age universal" IE scale. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 22(2), 181187.

Gorsuch, R. L. (1983). Three methods for analyzing limited timeseries (N of 1) data. Behavioral Assessment, 5, 141154.

Gorsuch, R. L. (1984). Measurement: The boon and bane of investigating religion. American Psychologist, 39(3), 228236. Reprinted in H. N. Malony (Ed.), Psychology of religion: Personalities, problems, possibilities (pp. 267283). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House. (Original work published 1984)

Zachary, R. A., & Gorsuch, R. L. (1985). Continuous norming: Implications for the WAISR. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 41(1), 8694.

Zachary, R. A., Paulson, M. J., & Gorsuch, R. L. (1985). Estimating WAIS IQ from the Shipley Institute of Living Scale using continuously adjusted age norms. Clinical Psychology, 41(6), 821831.

Sorenson, R. L., Gorsuch, R. L., & Mintz, J. (1985). Moving targets: Patients' changing complaints during psychotherapy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 53(1), 4954.

Gorsuch, R. L. (1986). Psychometric evaluation of scales when their scoring keys are unavailable. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 17(5), 399402.

Moon, G. W., Fantuzzo, J. W., & Gorsuch, R. L. (1986). Teaching WAISR administration skills: Comparison of the MASTERY Model to other existing clinical training modalities. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 17(1), 3135.

Blakey, W. A., Fantuzzo, J. W., Gorsuch, R. L., & Moon, G. W. (1987). A peermediated competencybased training package for the administration and scoring of the WAISR. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 18(1), 1720.

Pigott, H. E., Fantuzzo, J. W., & Gorsuch, R. L. (1987). Further generalization technology: Accounting for natural covariation in generalization assessment. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 20(3), 273278.

Mershon, B., & Gorsuch, R. L. (1988). Number of factors in the personality sphere: Does increase in factors increase predictability of reallife criteria? Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 55(4), 675680.

Moon, G. W., & Gorsuch, R. L. (1988). Information Inventory: The quicker quick test of intelligence. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 44(2), 248251.

Gorsuch, R. L., & McPherson, S. E. (1989). Intrinsic/extrinsic measurement: I/ERevised and singleitem scales. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 28(3), 348354.

Snook, S. C., & Gorsuch, R. L. (1989). Component analysis vs. common factor analysis: A Monte Carlo study. Psychological Bulletin, 106, 148154. Gorsuch, R. L. (1990). Common factor analysis versus component analysis: Some well and little known facts. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 25(1), 3339.

Gorsuch, R. L. (1990). Measurement in psychology of religion revisited. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 9(2), 8292.

Gorsuch, R. L. (1991). Things learned from another perspective (so far). American Psychologist, 46(10), 10891090.

Wood, J. M., Tataryn, D. J., & Gorsuch, R. L. (1996). Effects of under- and over-extraction on principal axis factor analysis with Varimax rotation. Psychological Methods, 1(4), 354-365. Gorsuch, R. L. (1997). Exploratory factor analysis: Its role in item analysis. Journal of Personality Assessment, 68(3), 532-560.

Gorsuch, R. L. (1997). New procedure for extension analysis in exploratory factor analysis. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 57(5), 725-740.

Boone, K. B., Ponton, M. O., Gorsuch, R. L., Gonzalez, J. J., & Miller, B. J. (1998). Factor analysis of four measures of prefrontal lobe functioning. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 13(7), 585-595.

Tataryn, D. J., Wood, J. M., & Gorsuch, R. L. (1999). Setting the value of k in promax: A Monte Carlo study. Educational and Psychological Measurement 59(3), 384-391. Venable, G. D., Gorsuch, R. L. (1999). I and E in developmental Perspective. In Rector, L. J.,

Santaniello, W. (Eds), Psychological perspectives and the religious quest, (pp. 81-101).

Lanham, Md: Univ Pr of America.

Saklofske, D. H., Hildebrand, D. K., & Gorsuch, R. L. (2000). Replication of the factor structure of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale—Third edition with a Canadian sample. Psychological Assessment 12(4), 436-439.

Wong-McDonald, A., Gorsuch, R. L. (2000). Surrender to God: an additional coping style?

Journal of Psychology and Theology, 28(2), 149-161.

Gorsuch, R. L. (2002). The pyramids of sciences and of humanities. American Behavioral Scientist, 45, 1822-1838.

Fiala, W. E., Bjorck, J. P., & Gorsuch, R. L. (2002). The Religious Support Scale: Construction, validation, and cross-validation. American Journal of Community Psychology, 30, 761-786.

Wong-McDonald, A., Gorsuch, R. L., (2004). A multivariate theory of God concept, religious

motivation, locus of control, coping, and spiritual well-being. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 32(4), 318-334.

Saklofske, D.H., Gorsuch, R.L., Weiss, L.G., Zhu, J., & Patterson, C.A. (2005). General ability

index for the WAIS-III: Canadian norms. Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science, 37,

44-48.

Gorsuch, R. L. (2005). Continuous parameter estimation model: Expanding the standard statistical paradigm. Journal of the Science Faculty of Chiang Mai University, 32(1), 11-21.

Duris, M., Bjorck, J. P., Gorsuch, R. L. (2007). Christian subcultural differences in item perceptions of the MMPI-2 lie scale. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 26(4), 356-366.

Figueredo, A. J., Gorsuch, R. L. (2007). Assortative mating in the Jewel WASP: Canonical analysis as an exploratory form of path analysis. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, 39.