Rate My Professor Donald Tellinghuisen

Tellinghuisen has co-authored the book Exploring Psychology and Christian Faith: An Introductory Guide with Paul Moes, which integrates biblical themes of human nature with major areas of psychology and serves as a textbook at Calvin University and other Christian colleges, with over 11,000 copies of the first edition sold; the second edition was updated in 2023. He is currently developing a book on the role of attention systems in faith life. His 19 peer-reviewed publications, cited over 500 times, appear in journals including Developmental Psychology, Perception & Psychophysics, and Patient Education and Counseling. Key works include "Examining in Infancy: Does it Reflect Active Processing?" (1994, with L.M. Oakes), "The Inability to Ignore Auditory Distractors as a Function of Visual Task Perceptual Load" (2003, with E.J. Nowak), and "Now Hear This: Inattentional Deafness Depends on Task Relatedness" (2016, with A.J. Cohen and N.J. Cooper). Through his scholarship, Tellinghuisen advances cognitive psychology, particularly attention mechanisms, bridging empirical research with Christian perspectives on human behavior.