Helps to explain what we mean when we say that an issue, a question, or a situation is a matter of "judgement". This book features an examination of the overlooked place of judgement in the everyday world. It tells that the exercise of judgement is a defining characteristic of professionalism.
Fear and ignorance have run rampant throughout human history. This book aims to expose the roots of such mental maladies as witchcraft and its persecution, asceticism, and unbridled hedonism, the crusades and millenarianism, nazism's monumental conceit, and the tactics of McCarthyism, as well as the belief in nostrum vendors and bogus messiahs.
Viewpoints contains challenging essays on Freud, his fellows and critics, and on the contribution of modern figures such as Bruno Bettelheim, Thomas Azasz and Eric Berne. Charles Rycroft also pursues his enduring fascination with the place of memory and imagination in the work of artists and writers , such as Wilkie Collins, Rousseau and Sartre, ......
Draws upon evidence from infant observation and linguistics as well as from information theory in order to make two related points. This title demonstrates how our prevailing theories of meaning have failed to account for how we distort meaning.
The World's Foremost Mentalist Reveals How You Can Expand Your Powers
The world's foremost mentalist demonstrates how to condition mind and body in order to accomplish many of the extraordinary mental feats that Kreskin accomplishes. "The Amazing Kreskin" is a scientist of the mind, relying on natural and scientific means to perform effects that have baffled millions around the world. "Natural laws govern the ......
The Origin, Nature, and Future of Paranormal Belief
Wings of Illusion offers a unique and disquieting perspective on paranormal belief, including religious belief. Schumaker points out that reality-defying beliefs represent one of the few truly universal elements of human culture. Even during the present period, when many traditional beliefs are being weakened, very few people live without some ......
Individual chapters discuss the influence of unintended (and automatic, uncontrolled and unconscious) perceptions and interpretations of physical and social environments on such phenomena as inferences and judgments about one's self and others, stereotyping and prejudicial behavior, emotions, motiv
Combines the findings of split-brain research and the mind's symbolic processes to examine the implications for understanding subjective experience of the religious and the sacred.
