Pages Tagged with #psychology

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Human Truth Foundation pages (68):

What Causes Religion and Superstitions?, in the following sections:

Errors in Thinking: Cognitive Errors, Wishful Thinking and Sacred Truths, in the following sections:

The Nocebo Effect: Negative Psychological Effects of the Mind on the Body, in the following sections:

Pseudoscience and Health: The World of Alternatives (to Truth), in the following sections:

Psychosomosis - the Placebo and Nocebo Effects: Curing and Causing Disease with the Mind, in the following sections:

Altruism is an Illusion, in the following sections:

The Placebo Effect and the Positive Power of the Mind on Health, in the following sections:

Boredom, in the following sections:

A Realistic Guide to Dream Interpretation, in the following sections:

The False and Conflicting Experiences of Mankind: How Other Peoples' Experience Contradict Our Own Beliefs, in the following sections:

Meditation, in the following sections:

Don't Panic: The World is Not About to End and Western Culture is Safe, in the following sections:

Why Question Beliefs? Dangers of Placing Ideas Beyond Doubt, and Advantages of Freethought, in the following sections:

Dreams, Religion and Magic: A Long History of Misunderstanding, in the following sections:

Perception is Influenced By Expectation: You Can't Always Trust Your Senses, in the following sections:

Astrology: Do Observed Positions of the Planets Influence Our Lives in Mystical Ways?, in the following sections:

Causes of Belief in the Afterlife and Differences Across Religions and Cultures, in the following sections:

Emotions Are Biological: How Biochemistry and Neurology Account for Feelings, in the following sections:

The Illusion of Choice: Free Will and Determinism, in the following sections:

Pareidolia - Seeing False Patterns in Random Data: Faces in Toast, Bible Codes and Conspiracy Theories, in the following sections:

Simple Answers in a Complex and Uncertain World: What Causes Religion?, in the following sections:

Broken Toys and Magical Thinking, in the following sections:

Curses, Hexes and The Evil Eye: The Psychology Behind Magical Evil, in the following sections:

Self Mastery, Self Development and Lifestyle Improvement, in the following sections:

The Importance of Current Events is Amplified by our Egos, in the following sections:

Why do People Join New Religious Movements?, in the following sections:

Why Are There So Many Religious People? Parents, Local Culture and Inertia, in the following sections:

Religion as the Result of Human Mythmaking, in the following sections:

Religious Extremism, in the following sections:

Experiences of God are Illusions, Derived from Malfunctioning Psychological Processes, in the following sections:

The Limbic System: The Source of Emotions in the Human Brain

Split Brain Studies: One Mind per Hemisphere

The Biology of Dreaming

Military Inspections: What's the point?

Souls do not Exist: Evidence from Science & Philosophy Against Mind-Body Dualism: 1. The Physical Brain is the Source of Emotions, Personality and Memory

Religion and Intelligence: 4. The Benefits and Side-Effects of Questioning Beliefs

Pride and Ego as a Cause of Religion

Satanic Symbols and Images of Satanism

Happiness and Religion: Does Belief Make You Happy Or Does Unhappiness Make You Believe?: 1.1. Do Unhappy People Become More Religious? Is it a Coping Mechanism?

Fundamentalism and Literalism in World Religions: 2. Why Question Beliefs? The Descent Into Uncompromising Fundamentalism

Alienation and Dangerous Sexual Deviation: Society's Reaction to Child Abuse Often Makes Things Worse: 4.1. Self-Suppression and Mental Health

Subjectivism and Phenomenology: Is Objective Truth Obtainable?: 4. Thinking Errors

Homocentricity or Anthropocentrism: Why Do Religions Think Humanity Is Central to God and Creation?

Critical Thinking on Acupuncture: How Does it Work?: 4. The Placebo Effect

Rationalism Versus Irrationality: Are Emotions Useful?

The Causes of Religion: National Under-Development and Poor Social Stability: 2. Compensating for High Mortality Rates and National Instability

Social Identity as a Propagator of Religion: 3. Identity Reinforcement in a Globalized World

Life Expectancy and Longevity: 6. Sociological Data on Life Expectancy Versus Religion

We Dislike Changing Our Minds: Status Quo Bias and Cognitive Dissonance

The Christian Dark Ages of Europe: 2.4. Why Question Beliefs? Dangers of Placing Ideas Beyond Doubt, and Advantages of Freethought

What is Skepticism and Its Values?: 1. The Problem: We are Easily Mistaken

We Easily Mislead Ourselves With Unfounded Stories

The EU is Always in Deep Crisis: Decades of Warnings: 3. The Importance of Current Events is Amplified by our Egos

Hyperactive Agent Detection Device (the Psychology of Religion and Superstition)

Animism: 1. Hyperactive Agent Detection Device (the Psychology of Religion and Superstition)

Scientific Theories Must Make Way for New Evidence: 1. Errors in Thinking: Cognitive Errors, Wishful Thinking and Sacred Truths

The Future of Human Telepathy

Religion and the Fear of Death

Why are Our Memories Unreliable?: 4. Thinking Errors

The Forer (or Barnum) Effect

Hallucinations, Sensory Deprivation and Fasting: The Physiological Causes of Religious and Mystical Experiences

Does Homeopathy Work? What are the Risks and Dangers?: 6. So What is This 'Placebo Effect' Which Makes Homeopathy Seem Effective?

Satanism: 4. The Symbols of Satanism: The Baphomet and Others

Spiritualism: 4.3. The Forer (Barnum) Effect

Why Did Some People in the Bible Live So Long?: 4. Sociological Data on Life Expectancy Versus Religion

Statistical Regression: Causes of Strange Beliefs and Pseudoscience

General Neophobia in Everyday Life: Humankind's Fear of Progress and Change: 2.2. Current Events Ego

Political Power Struggles and Identity Reinforcement: Why are People Religious?

Not from the Human Truth Foundation, but still relevant (15):

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