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Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
Buddhist Jhāna meditation and the Christian practice of speaking in tongues appear wildly distinct. These spiritual techniques differ in their ethical, theological, and historical frames and seem, from the outside, to produce markedly different states of consciousness-one a state of utter calm and the other of high emotional arousal. Yet, our phenomenological interviews with experienced practitioners in the USA found significant points of convergence.
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Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The imagination is central to human social life but undervalued worldwide and underexplored in psychology. Here, we offer Possible Worlds Theory as a synthetic theory of the imagination. We first define the imagination, mapping the mental states it touches, from dreams and hallucinations to satire and fiction.
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Br J Sociol
December 2024
Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Sociohistorical research suggests that religious discourses and practices have been powerful in producing disciplined lines of conduct. Typically, however, this work has only considered the long-term consequences of discursive shifts or the one-sided outcomes of disciplinary practices. In contrast, this paper shows how the creative appropriation of disciplinary devices can instigate their transfiguration into additional disciplinary tools.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPsychologists return to the first question of Western philosophy.
Am Psychol
May 2024
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania.
When ancient humans gained the ability to investigate abstract questions, what first question did they pose? This article offers a novel, sweeping, historical analysis with important implications for psychological theory. The story begins with identifying the first question in Ancient Greek philosophy as "Where am I?" with particular interest in the world's overarching basic traits. For example, Pythagoras proposed the world was defined by beauty and Heraclitus suggested change.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAssociations of religious and existential variables with psychosocial factors and biomarkers of cardiovascular risk in bereavement.
Aging Cell
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Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Bereavement increases in prevalence as people age and is associated with multiple psychological and health risks, including cardiovascular risk. Religious and existential variables may play an important role in the health impacts of bereavement. Theorized pathways linking religious and existential variables with health have suggested these associations are due to intermediary psychosocial variables, but have not been tested in bereavement.
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