Natalie Lindemann Professor • Department of Psychology View CV Website Professional Interests How judgments and beliefs are affected by embodied experiences, statistical data, and intuitive reason, with a specific interest in how Catholic liturgical practices shape religious belief and experience Other Interests Faculty Advisor, Catholic Campus Ministryhttps://wpunj.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/catholiccampusministry Degrees PhD Psychology, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick, NJ MS Psychology, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick, NJ BA Psychology, Oakland University Rochester, MI Specialization Cognitive Psychology Representative Publications Traditional liturgical practices predict greater active participation; , Catholic Social Science Review; Volume 31, 2026 https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase26?openform&fp=cssr&id=cssr_2026_0031_0093_0108 Liturgy matters: Traditional liturgical practices predict belief in the Real Presence; , Catholic Social Science Review; Volume 30, Issue 2025 2025 https://www.pdcnet.org/cssr/content/cssr_2025_0030_0135_0151 Parish practices predict belief in the Real Presence: Genuflection, adoration, and the traditional Latin Mass.; , Catholic Social Science Review; Volume 29, 2024 https://www.pdcnet.org/cssr/content/cssr_2024_0029_0085_0100 Sample size weighting follows a curvilinear function.; Volume 45, 2019 https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-32827-001?doi=1 An encounter frequency account of how experience affects likelihood estimation; , Memory & Cognition; Volume 37, 2009 https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/MC.37.5.632 Representative Presentations Parish practices predict belief in the Real Presence 2023 Meeting of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists Steubenville, OH 2023 On the objectivity of moral rules. 2020 meeting of the Psychonomic Society Psychonomic Society , 2020 Evaluation prompts deliberative thinking. 2016 meeting of the Psychonomics Society Psychonomics Society Boston, MA 2016 Awards and Honors Fellow Psychonomic Society 01/01/2014 Faculty Teaching Award CAHSS, William Paterson University 03/01/2024 Media Is kneeling before the Eucharist prohibited? One in four priests respond to their bishop (of Charlotte) with a letter to the Vatican. https://zenit.org/2026/01/07/is-kneeling-before-the-eucharist-prohibited-one-in-four-priests-respond-to-their-bishop-of-charlotte-with-a-letter-to-the-vatican/ Published Article: Attendance of Traditional Latin Mass strongly correlated with Stronger Belief in the Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2025/09/published-article-attendance-of.html Study: ‘Traditional liturgical experiences predict stronger belief in the Real Presence’ https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266685/new-study-traditional-liturgical-experiences-predict-stronger-belief-in-the-real-presence Are you listening when we do the numbers? http://www.marketplace.org/2016/08/02/world/numbers-brain Notable Courses Taught UndergraduateEvidence-based LivingExperimental I: Applied StatisticsExperimental II: Research MethodsFirst Year Honors Research SeminarSelected Topics in Cognitive ScienceCognitive Science Honors Thesis I & IIResearch LabGraduateAdvanced Research Methods and Statistics Email 973 720 2683 2059 Hennings Science East Fall 2026: Tuesdays & Thursdays 9-9:50 am and various times by appointment (in-person, phone or Teams)
