Kevin J Flannelly Author

Dr. Kevin J. Flannelly received his Ph.D. in physiological and comparative psychology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and his M.S. in psychobiology from Rutgers University. He has conducted research on a wide range of topics in sociology, psychiatry, and psychopharmacology, and clinical, cognitive, comparative, developmental, and physiological psychology, as well as various areas of healthcare. Over the past 40 years, he has published more than 160 peer-reviewed articles and numerous other articles and book chapters. He became interested in the relationship between religion and physical and mental health in 1995, and he has published almost 90 peer-reviewed articles in the field of religion and health. Dr. Flannelly published his first study exploring the connection between religious beliefs and mental health in 2004 and he published his first theoretical model about the mechanisms by which beliefs affect mental health in a 2006 article in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, titled “Beliefs, Mental Health, and Evolutionary Threat Assessment Systems in the Brain.” In all, he has published a score of empirical and theoretical articles on the relationship between religious beliefs and mental health.