Edwin E. Gantt, Associate Professor of Psychology

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I am currently most interested in exploring the social nature and scope of human empathy, compassion, altruism, and spiritual/religious experience via a variety of empirical, qualitative, and theoretical methods. I am particularly interested in examining the various (and often problematic) ways in which empathy, altruism and religion have been conceptualized and explained in many of the major schools of contemporary psychology and psychotherapy (e.g., social psychology, humanism, cognitive-behaviorism, and evolutionary psychology).

Gantt, E. E, Lindstrom, J. P., & Williams, R. N.. The generality of theory and the specificity of social behavior: Contrasting experimental and hermeneutic social science.. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality.
Collingridge, D. C., & Gantt, E. E.. The Quality of Qualitative Research. The American Journal of Medical Quality.
Gantt, E. E., & Yanchar, S. C.. Irreducible Ethics: A Defense of Strenuousness and Responsibility.. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology.
E. E. Gantt and E. R. Reynolds. Meaning, Morality, and Sexual Attraction: Questioning the Reductive and Deterministic Assumptions of Evolutionary Biologism and Social Constructionism. What's the Harm? How Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage Harms Society, Families, and Individuals.
EDWIN E. GANTT. Empathy. Encyclopedia of Human Development.
EDWIN E. GANTT. Hedonism, suffering, and redemption: The challenge of a Christian psychotherapy (reprint). Turning Freud Upside Down: Gospel Perspectives on Psychotherapy's Fundamental Problems.
EDWIN E. GANTT. Social psychology: Exploring alternative conceptual foundations.. Developing Critical Thinking in Psychology.
Yanchar, S. C., GANTT, E. E., & Clay, S. L.. On the nature of a critical methodology. Theory and Psychology.

Sigmund Koch Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology Division 24 (Theory and Philosophy) -- American Psychological Association 2002
Teacher of Honor Award Brigham Young University Student Honor Association 2002