Peter C. Hill

    Professor of Psychology and Director of the Office of Academic Research and Grants
    Biola University

    Peter C. Hill, Ph.D., is Director of the Office of Academic Research and Grants Professor of Psychology at Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University, in La Mirada, CA.

    His research interests focus on positive psychological virtues such as humility, gratitude, and forgiveness; religious fundamentalism; and religious/spiritual measurement. He has received two multi-million dollar grants in the study of intellectual humility from the John Templeton Foundation. He is a past president of Division 36 (Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality) of the American Psychological Association (APA) and was elected Fellow of the APA in 1998.

    He has co-authored or co-edited six books including The Psychology of Fundamentalism: An Intratextual Approach (2005), Measures of Religiosity (1999), the Baker Encyclopedia of Psychology (1999), and the 5th edition of the leading psychology of religion textbook The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach (2018, Guilford Press).