Belief Systems And The Perception Of Reality

Author : Bastiaan Dr Rutjens,Mark Dr Brandt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351629072

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Belief Systems and the Perception of Reality by Bastiaan Dr Rutjens,Mark Dr Brandt Pdf

This book focuses on the social psychology of belief systems and how they influence perceptions of reality. These belief systems, from politics to religion to science, shape one’s thoughts and views, but also can be the cause of conflict and disagreement over values, particularly when they are enacted in political policies. In Belief Systems and the Perceptions of Reality, editors Bastiaan Rutjens and Mark Brandt examine the social psychological effects at the heart of the conflict, by bringing together contributions under five themes: Motivated Reasoning; Inequality; Threat; Scientists Interpreting Science; and People Interpreting Science. This book aims to create a more integrated understanding of reality perception and its connection with belief systems, viewed through the lens of social psychology. The synthesis of expert contributors as well as the literature around social psychology and belief systems makes this a unique resource for students, researchers and academics in behavioural and social sciences, as well as activists and journalists working in this political field.

Author : Bastiaan T. Rutjens,Mark J. Brandt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Belief and doubt
ISBN : 1138070807

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Belief Systems and the Perception of Reality by Bastiaan T. Rutjens,Mark J. Brandt Pdf

This book focuses on the social psychology of belief systems and how they influence perceptions of reality. The expert editors and contributors examine how beliefs lead to conflict and disagreements over values, and how those values are enacted.

Author : Joseph Giovannoli
Publisher : Rosetta Press, Inc.
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780970813718

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The Biology of Belief by Joseph Giovannoli Pdf

Author : MR Maurice Johnson,NoMoEgo
Publisher : Nomoego, LLC
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692683860

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Lying Beliefs by MR Maurice Johnson,NoMoEgo Pdf

Lying Beliefs is a book that will assist anyone who is sincerely seeking to free themselves from the controlling and conflicting beliefs that breed a systematic way of living that can seem like a prison at times.In truth, it is our flawed perception of reality that imprisons us. The book brilliantly articulates how humanity fails to recognize that it is only the arguable man-made beliefs that we have embraced that creates a fraudulent perception of who we think we are; which in turn deters our awareness from our true divine nature. On a rare occasion a book comes along that really challenges you to take a deep look at your belief system. In an age where so many are looking for a true sense of freedom and fulfillment, few realize that it is our core beliefs that 'lie' in the way of our destiny. Our individual belief systems constructs an impenetrable wall within our minds that isolates and confines us. Thus, true freedom and fulfillment can only be obtained when our attention is not being constantly consumed by the convoluted information that occupies our minds. The Author eloquently exposes in a breathtaking way, how we human beings via our different man-made ideas, beliefs, theories, etc...live our lives fearfully tucked away in our own remote worlds, seemingly encased in our own restricted boxes. Thus, the material in this book compels you not to just think outside of the box, but to help you realize that in reality there is NO box; by way of stretching or expanding your awareness beyond the limitation of what you have been taught to believe, in order to free the true sacred identity of who you are from the self-controlling idea of who you think you are, which has been conceptualized by your mind.

Author : James E. Alcock
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781633884045

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Belief by James E. Alcock Pdf

An expert on the psychology of belief examines how our thoughts and feelings, actions and reactions, respond not to the world as it actually is but to the world as we believe it to be. This book explores the psychology of belief - how beliefs are formed, how they are influenced both by internal factors, such as perception, memory, reason, emotion, and prior beliefs, as well as external factors, such as experience, identification with a group, social pressure, and manipulation. It also reveals how vulnerable beliefs are to error, and how they can be held with great confidence even when factually false. The author, a social psychologist who specializes in the psychology of belief, elucidates how the brain and nervous system function to create the perceptions, memories, and emotions that shape belief. He explains how and why distorted perceptions, false memories, and inappropriate emotional reactions that sometimes lead us to embrace false beliefs are natural products of mental functioning. He also shows why it is so difficult to change our beliefs when they collide with contradictions. Covering a wide range -- from self-perception and the perceived validity of everyday experience to paranormal, religious, and even fatal beliefs--the book demonstrates how crucial beliefs are to molding our experience and why they have such a powerful hold on our behavior.

Author : Michael Shermer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781429972611

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The Believing Brain by Michael Shermer Pdf

The Believing Brain is bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished. In this work synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist, historian of science, and the world's best-known skeptic Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow. The brain, Shermer argues, is a belief engine. From sensory data flowing in through the senses, the brain naturally begins to look for and find patterns, and then infuses those patterns with meaning. Our brains connect the dots of our world into meaningful patterns that explain why things happen, and these patterns become beliefs. Once beliefs are formed the brain begins to look for and find confirmatory evidence in support of those beliefs, which accelerates the process of reinforcing them, and round and round the process goes in a positive-feedback loop of belief confirmation. Shermer outlines the numerous cognitive tools our brains engage to reinforce our beliefs as truths. Interlaced with his theory of belief, Shermer provides countless real-world examples of how this process operates, from politics, economics, and religion to conspiracy theories, the supernatural, and the paranormal. Ultimately, he demonstrates why science is the best tool ever devised to determine whether or not a belief matches reality.

Author : E. Tory Higgins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190948078

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Shared Reality by E. Tory Higgins Pdf

What does it mean to be human? Why do we feel and behave in the ways that we do? The classic answer is that we have a special kind of intelligence. But to understand what we are as humans, we also need to know what we are like motivationally. And what is central to this story, what is special about human motivation, is that humans want to share with others their inner experiences about the world--share how they feel, what they believe, and what they want to happen in the future. They want to create a shared reality with others. People have a shared reality together when they experience having in common a feeling about something, a belief about something, or a concern about something. They feel connected to another person or group by knowing that this person or group sees the world the same way that they do--they share what is real about the world. In this work, Dr. Higgins describes how our human motivation for shared reality evolved in our species, and how it develops in our children as shared feelings, shared practices, and shared goals and roles. Shared reality is crucial to what we believe--sharing is believing. It is central to our sense of self, what we strive for and how we strive. It is basic to how we get along with others. It brings us together in fellowship and companionship, but it also tears us apart by creating in-group "bubbles" that conflict with one another. Our shared realities are the best of us, and the worst of us.

Author : Crystal Divine Alchemy
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 179337905X

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Belief System Alchemy Workbook by Crystal Divine Alchemy Pdf

We all have limiting beliefs that we acquired from others. Now is the time to have a closer look at them and transmute all that no longer serve us. Change your beliefs; change your behaviour. Your beliefs affect your perception. What are your core beliefs? Are limiting beliefs holding you back? Breakthrough from your current limiting beliefs by understanding where they came from and use this conscious technique to re-write and master your new beliefs. You are the creator of your reality. Create the best version of yourself. Once you know what your limiting beliefs are and which ones you are choosing to replace them with, use the Belief System Alchemy Recorder notebook to write your new beliefs until they are activated.

Author : Keli Adams
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1457546094

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Drop the Bs (Belief Systems) and Be by Keli Adams Pdf

Leave all opinions, judgments, and BS (belief systems) at the door before you begin to read this book. Give yourself wiggle room to stretch your perceptions about "reality," DROP the BS (belief systems) and allow Keli Adams to take you on a brief, sometimes humorous, always thought-provoking roller-coaster ride of bizarre experiences throughout her life, and her acceptance of very unique abilities she uses to help people. Keep reading as she offers you a simple yet powerful way to shift your perceptions and change your own life instantly and profoundly. Mind-Shrug, drop into the POUP, and BE. (Drop into the Pool of Unlimited Potential and BE.) Quantum play keeps the ego away. The last section of the book contains The SOELI Transmissions. SOELI is the Source of Energy-Light- Information..."God." Keli gets out of the way, sits at her computer, and types information that comes straight from SOELI. Keli has no idea what has been said, and the transcript you will read is the pure, raw, and unedited transmission. Only a simple spell check has been done for easier reading. Keli Adams has been studying the mind/body connection, other dimensions and states of consciousness, quantum physics, and alternative healing for over thirty years. She firmly believes that our perception creates our reality, and if you shift your perception, you shift your reality. Keli is a psychic medium, inter-species communicator, paranormal researcher for over twenty-five years, medical intuitive, healing facilitator, hypnotherapist, Reiki master/teacher, Silva graduate, grief counselor, psychometrist, labyrinth facilitator, and author. This is her seventh book. She has been a flight attendant for a major American airline since 1986 and lives somewhere, nowhere, and everywhere with her small herd of cats. Keli offers group spirit communication "GatheringZ," one-on-one sessions, and group talks. Her unique DROPzone "play dates" have become hugely popular. As Keli puts it, "Show up, shut up, drop into the POUP (Pool of Unlimited Potential), and play." Leave all the BS (belief systems) and opinions at the door, and come in with a childlike, open-hearted sense of trust, curiosity, and play. You leave three hours later "repatterned, recalibrated, and restored" on many deep levels. For more information about Keli, her books, or services, visit www.keliadams.com.

Author : Dennis Proffitt,Drake Baer
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781250219121

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Perception by Dennis Proffitt,Drake Baer Pdf

A groundbreaking popular psychology book that explores the deep connection between our body and our brain. Over decades of study, University of Virginia psychologist Dennis Proffitt has shown that we are each living our own personal version of Gulliver’s Travels, where the size and shape of the things we see are scaled to the size of our bodies, and our ability to interact with them. Stairs look less steep as dieters lose weight, baseballs grow bigger the better players hit, hills look less daunting if you’re standing next to a close friend, and learning happens faster when you can talk with your hands. Written with journalist Drake Baer, Perception marries academic rigor with mainstream accessibility. The research presented and the personalities profiled will show what it means to not only have, but be, your unique human body. The positive ramifications of viewing ourselves from this embodied perspective include greater athletic, academic, and professional achievement, more nourishing relationships, and greater personal well-being. The better we can understand what our bodies are—what they excel at, what they need, what they must avoid—the better we can live our lives.

Author : Lee Jussim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199710614

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Social Perception and Social Reality by Lee Jussim Pdf

Social Perception and Social Reality contests the received wisdom in the field of social psychology that suggests that social perception and judgment are generally flawed, biased, and powerfully self-fulfilling. Jussim reviews a wealth of real world, survey, and experimental data collected over the last century to show that in fact, social psychological research consistently demonstrates that biases and self-fulfilling prophecies are generally weak, fragile, and fleeting. Furthermore, research in the social sciences has shown stereotypes to be accurate. Jussim overturns the received wisdom concerning social perception in several ways. He critically reviews studies that are highly cited darlings of the bias conclusion and shows how these studies demonstrate far more accuracy than bias, or are not replicable in subsequent research. Studies of equal or higher quality, which have been replicated consistently, are shown to demonstrate high accuracy, low bias, or both. The book is peppered with discussions suggesting that theoretical and political blinders have led to an odd state of affairs in which the flawed or misinterpreted bias studies receive a great deal of attention, while stronger and more replicable accuracy studies receive relatively little attention. In addition, the author presents both personal and real world examples (such as stock market prices, sporting events, and political elections) that routinely undermine heavy-handed emphases on error and bias, but are generally indicative of high levels of rationality and accuracy. He fully embraces scientific data, even when that data yields unpopular conclusions or contests prevailing conventions or the received wisdom in psychology, in other social sciences, and in broader society.

Author : Thomas Nehrer
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-16
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781846947476

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Essence of Reality by Thomas Nehrer Pdf

The Essence of Reality is the most perceptive, exacting look at the flow of Reality ever. Rarely has a human glimpsed beyond the confines of the self-aware mind to see the interactive flow of mind-value into Reality. Thomas Nehrer here goes beyond a glimpse to specify that flow, depicting Consciousness explicitly. The Essence of Reality illustrates that all of one's life - health, success, authority, abundance - reflect one's inner nature, leading the reader to see exactly how that works. It gives explicit tools for delving into limiting mindsets to accomplish real change.

Author : Donald Hoffman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393254709

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The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald Hoffman Pdf

Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. From examining why fashion designers create clothes that give the illusion of a more “attractive” body shape to studying how companies use color to elicit specific emotions in consumers, and even dismantling the very notion that spacetime is objective reality, The Case Against Reality dares us to question everything we thought we knew about the world we see.

Author : Simon Maxwell,Dr Diane L Stone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134272761

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Global Knowledge Networks and International Development by Simon Maxwell,Dr Diane L Stone Pdf

This volume draws together leading experts from academia, think-tanks and donor agencies, to examine the impact of transnational knowledge networks in the formulation of local, national and global policy in the field of international development and transition studies. These leading contributors pay particular attention to the global reach of research and the manner in which knowledge is incorporated into, and shapes, transnational policy domains. They show how the 'knowledge agenda' has become a central part of the discourse of both developing societies and advanced economies. Governments and international organizations devote considerable financial resources to both in-house and contracted research. This volume will be of great interest to students, researchers and policy makers concerned with global policy, global governance and development.

Author : Gregory Calise
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781553956617

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Perceptions of Reality by Gregory Calise Pdf

Although we are all living in the same world, we are simultaneously each living in our own seperate universe, where each person observes himself as the center of that universe. Each person has a unique conditioning and belief structure that create his perspective in which he views reality. The world than interfaces witheach person to create a reality that conforms to his beliefs. A person's conditioning and beliefs affect his attitudes and emotions, which then magnetize certain energies that resonate to his state of being. In this way each individual is creating a seperate reality according to his perceptions of truth. What we percieve as reality is only the surface of a much deeper and greater truth. Beyond the apparent world lies the essence of life and a vast kingdom of hidden knowledge. Our conditioning and beliefs bind us to a certain perspective in which we view our reality. Perceptions of Reality show us how we can break free of the bondage of our conditioning that holds us in a life of mediocrity. When we become free from this bondage, we can change our perspective, which in turn, changes our perceptions. From a highter perspective we can see the larger picture of our lives and the world. We will see the circumstances that have created our present reality, and the relationships of events and experiences that were previously beyond our horizons of perception. From this higher perspective we will perceive the world in a new light. It will change brfore our eyes and interface with us in a new and more positive way. We will be able to take control of our lives, change our destiny and shape a new future. From this higher state of awareness, we will discover the portal to access the abstract mind, which is the mental function of genius and the doorway to revelation. From the perspective of revelation, we will open the doors into the absolute realms, beyond material time and space, and describes the perceptions of God, the soul, the world, and the paths to higher consciousness. Perceptions of Reality will show us how to access the abstract mind and open the doorways into revelation, creating a new reality, full of abundance, harmony and joy.