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Dr. Tommy Poling, Professor
Education
Oklahoma
State
University
BS (Microbiology)
MS (Psychology)
PhD (Clinical Psychology)
Courses
2300 – Psychology and the Human Experience
3340 – Meditation Techniques (team taught, interdisciplinary)
3360 – Abnormal Psychology
3363 – Psychology of Religion (team taught, interdisciplinary)
4310/5310 – Counseling Psychology
4370 – Psychology of Personality
4460/5460 – Psychological Tests
7360 – Deviant Behavior
7385 – Clinical Methods
Research Interests
The focus of my research has been in the area of personality
theory and measurement. In collaboration with faculty and student colleagues, I
have investigated the influence of personality characteristics on a variety of
variables, including religious conversion and denominational affiliation, deity
conceptualization, moral reasoning, creativity, leadership style and language
use.
Selected
Publications and Presentations
Poling, T., & Kenney, J. (1986). The Hare Krishna Character Type: A Study of
the
Sensate Personality.
Lewiston,
NY
: Edwin Mellen Press.
Poling, T.H. (1985). Personality and religious affiliation: A study of Hare
Krishnas and
Unitarian Universalists. Presented at the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies.
Poling, T.H., Kenney, J.F., & Lipman, M.J. (1988). God concepts: A
factor analytic assessment.
Presented at the American Psychological Association Conference.
Poling, T.H., Kenney, J.F., & Johnson, J. (1990). God concepts and
denominational affiliation.
Presented at the American Psychological Association Conference.
Poling, T. (1994). Psychology of religion, Jungian theory, and type. Bulletin
of Psychological
Type, 17, 4.
Poling, T., & Johnson, J. (1995). The TDI, Eysenck's Dimensions of
Personality and the Five
Factor Model. In Newman, J. (Ed.), Measures of the Five Factor Model and
Psychological Type: A Major Convergence of Research and Theory . Kansas City, MO.
International Association for Psychological Type.
Faucett, J., Morgan, E., Poling, T., & Johnson, J. (1995). MBTI
Type and Kohlberg's post-
conventional studies of moral reasoning. Journal for Psychological Type.
Poling, T., & Kenney,
J. (1995). The psychology of meditation: An
interdisciplinary approach.
Presented at the American Psychological Society
Conference in New York,
NY.
Poling, T., Johnson, J.,
& Kenney, J. (1995). Anthropomorphic, deistic,
and omni deity images:
The influence of psychological type. Presented at the
International Association of
Psychological Type Conference in Kanasas City,
MO.
Poling, T., Sherman, A., Simonton,
S., & Faucett, J. (1997). Self-regulation and
immune changes
in healthy subjects: A comparison of relaxation,
meditation and imagery. Presented at the
American
Psychological Society Conference, Washington, D.C.
Poling, T., Faucett, J., &
Belden, A. (2000). Personality variables influence
academic
performance. Presented at the American Psychological Society
Conference,
Miami, FL.
Sherman, A., Simonton,
S., Adams, D., Latif, U., Plante, T., Burris, K., &
Poling, T.
(2001). Measuring religious faith in cancer patients:
Reliability and construct
validity of the Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith
Questionnaire. Psycho-
Oncology , 10,
436-443.
Graduate
Students
My current work supports the health psychology track. I am willing to mentor graduate students in any track. If I am to
chair a thesis committee, however, the project would need to be in an area of
my specialized interest.
For Email: search Poling here:
http://derrida.ualr.edu/tools/azindex/
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Department of Psychology
2801 S. University
Little Rock, AR 72204-1099
501-569-3171
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