A number of studies have been carried out about subjects belonging to the domain of religious behaviour and an other series of studies about experimental psychology.

Most were written in Dutch, some in French and English.

Dr. H.H. SOMERS published the following works:

• Een biografie van de duivel. Oorsprong en wezen van het Satanisme. (A biography of the devil. Origin and essence of Satanism). Leuven, Van Halewyk, 1998.
• Jehova's Getuigen. Naar het einde van de wereldchaos ? (Jehovah's Witnesses. To the End of the World-chaos ?). Hadewijch, Antwerpen, 1995.
• Een andere Mohammed. (An Other Muhammad). Hadewijch, Antwerpen, 1993.
• Geheim en wijsheid der Jezuieten. Het epos van een militante orde. (Secret and Wisdom of the Jesuits. The Epopee of a Militant Order). Hadewijch, Antwerpen - Baarn, 1991.
• Toen God sliep, schreef de mens de Bijbel. De Bijbel belicht door een psycholoog. (While God was Sleeping, Man Wrote the Bible. The Bible Seen by a Psychologist.) Facet, Antwerpen, 1990.
• Jezus, de Messias. Was het Christendom een vergissing ? (Jesus the Messiah. Was Christianity a Mistake ?) Epo, Antwerpen, 1986.
• Geluidshinder en leefmilieu. (Noise and Environment). Standaard, Antwerpen, 1974.
• The Measurement of Psychomotor Speed. Editest, Brussels, 1974.
• Analyse statistique du style. (Statistical Analysis of Style). Nauwelaerts, Paris, 1966.
• Analyse mathematique du langage. (Mathematical Analysis of Language). Nauwelaerts, Paris, 1959.
• Het probleem van Pilatus. De verhouding Kerk en Staat. (The Problem of Pilate. The Relationship of Church and State.) Sheed and Ward, Antwerpen, 1954.
  

The following articles :

• Image de Dieu et illumination divine. Sources historiques et elaboration augustinienne, (Image of God and Divine Illumination. Historical Sources and Augustinian Elaboration) in : Augustinus Magister, Paris, 1955, p. 451-462.
• The riddle of a plural : Faciamus (Gen. 1,26). Its history in tradition, in : Folia (New York), 9 (1955), p. 63-101.
• L'homme, image de Dieu. Origine du theme, (Man, Image of God. Origin of the Thema) in : Bijdragen, 20 (1959), p. 126-145.
• La gnose augustinienne. Sens et valeur de la doctrine de l'image, (Augustinian Gnosis. Sense and Value of the Doctrine of the Image) in : Revue des Etudes Augustiniennes, 7 (1961), p. 1-15.
• Image de Dieu. Les sources de l'exegese augustinienne, (Image of God. Sources of Augustinean Exegesis) in : Revue des Etudes Augustiniennes, 7 (1961), p. 105-125.
• L'image comme sagesse. La genese de la notion trinitaire de la sagesse, (The Image as Wisdom. Genesis of the Trinitarian Notion of Wisdom) in : Recherches augustiniennes. Hommage au R.P. F. Cayre, Paris, 1962, 2, p. 403-414.
• Onderwijs, financien en kunst, (Education, Finances and Art) in : Streven, 9 (1955), p. 87-89.
• The measurement of grammatical constraints, in : Language and Speech (London), 4 (1961), p. 150- 156.
• Grammatical constraints in pathological speech, in : Language and Speech (London), 9 (1966), p. 153-161.
• Linguistique et mathematique, (Linguistics and Mathematics) in : Linguistics (The Hague), 34 ( 1967), p. 73-80.
• La mathematisation de la demarche linguistique, (Mathematisation of the Linguistic Procedure) in : Melanges Fohalle, Gembloux, 1968, p. 137-145.
• Statistical methods in literary analysis, in : The Computer and Literary Style, ed. J. Leed, Kent (Ohio), 1966, p. 128-140.
• Statistische en psychologische analyse van de stijl, (Statistical and Psychological Analysis of Style) in : Psychologica Belgica, 5 (1965), p. 51-57.
• Factor analysis of non-linearly related variates, msc. 1969.
• Les attributs de la perception et leur interaction. (The Attributes of Perception and their Interaction) Louvain, Inst. Psych. Appl., 1961.
• Langage, signe et information. Etudes experimentales. (Language, Sign and Information. Experimental Studies). Msc., 1963.
• Absolute time interval judgment as a psychological problem and a clinical test, in : Psychologica Belgica, 8 (1968), p. 115-130.
• A model for the binary absolute judgment, in : Psychologica Belgica, 10 (1970), p. 49-63.
• Individual strategies and bias-free measurement, in : Psychologica Belgica, 12 (1972), p. 77-85.
• Towards a theory of human judgment. A corrective switching mechanism in binary judgments, in : Psychologica Belgica, 13 (1973), p. 186-202.
• Wat loopt er mis met het lawaai ? Experimentele psychologie in dienst van de menselijke problemen, (What is Going Wrong with Noise ? Experimental Psychology for Human Problems) in : Psychologie in onderzoek en toepassing. Een verslag van veertien vlaamse experimentele psychologen. (Ed. J. Hueting), Malle, 1983, p. 183-203.
• About individual reaction to whole-body vibration, in : Acta Medicinae militaris Belgicae, 137 (1984), p. 3-8.
• Stress in het landleger, (Stress in the Army). in : Annales Medicinae militaris Belgicae, 1, (1987), p. 47-51.
• De invloed van het fluorescerende scherm, (The Influence of the Fluorescent Screen) in : Annales Medicinae militaris Belgicae, 1 (1987), p. 52-53.
• Pain, muscle-tension and microvibration of the skin as revealed by holographic interferometry, in : Annales Medicinae militaris Belgicae, 4 (1990), p. 163-169. (with A.J. Stevens).
• Lawaai en gezondheid, (Noise and Health) in : Leefmilieu, 15/1 (1991), p. 2-4.

about him:

• B0SSAERTS, L., Reportage (Lawaai), in: Knack (Weekend), nr. 11 (1992), p. 154-161.
• ELST, K., Psychology of Prophecy. New Delhi, Voice of India, 1993.

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