Search results for "Psychology of religion" - New World Encyclopedia

From New World Encyclopedia
  • Category:Psychology Category:Public Depth psychology is a broad term that refers to any psychological ...
    6 KB (829 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
  • 30, 1969) was a British psychologist, one of the pioneers of cognitive and ... He became a tutor at the University of Cambridge in 1909, and his ...
    9 KB (1,276 words) - 10:25, 11 April 2024
  • that attempts to reduce diverse forms of knowledge including concepts ... psychologism on the ground that principles of logic are universally true ...
    7 KB (1,004 words) - 23:31, 2 December 2022
  • applied even to areas such as the psychology of religion. A committed Christian ... Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, The Social Psychology of Religion. One of the co-founders ...
    16 KB (2,228 words) - 10:37, 10 March 2023
  • method and its application to the study of human nature. Thus, he supported ... Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association ...
    14 KB (1,985 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
  • a philosophical model. He was a close friend of the U.S. German-born theologian ... May is best known for his work on the human struggles of living in ...
    14 KB (2,212 words) - 02:44, 16 December 2022
  • played a major role in shaping the fields of personality psychology and ... ===On psychology of religion=== In his book, The Individual and His ...
    18 KB (2,581 words) - 03:25, 23 December 2022
  • instinctual behavior and the development of social psychology. McDougall ... in Lancashire, England, as the second son of Isaac Shimwell McDougall and ...
    13 KB (1,861 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
  • Category:Psychology Category:Public Humanistic psychology is an approach in psychology that emerged in ...
    22 KB (2,987 words) - 12:19, 4 February 2023
  • Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully ... The concept of the state of flow is similarly found in the traditions ...
    13 KB (1,998 words) - 17:43, 28 March 2024
  • 1947) was a French psychiatrist, a student of Jean-Martin Charcot, whose ... He also became interested in philosophy and psychology while still ...
    12 KB (1,594 words) - 05:23, 24 November 2022
  • on kinship, family, and religious beliefs of the Tallensi and Ashanti people ... his master’s degree from the University of Cape Town in 1926, and went ...
    8 KB (1,075 words) - 16:31, 9 November 2022
  • Category:Psychology Analytical psychology is the movement started by Carl Jung and his ...
    23 KB (3,347 words) - 18:57, 26 July 2023
  • famous for his work on the ethnology of religion and mythology, and ... Lodz, Russia (today Poland), into the family of Adolf and Johanna Radin. His ...
    11 KB (1,587 words) - 01:29, 23 November 2022
  • Ashrama, in the Hindu religion (from Sanskrit āśramaḥ: meaning ... has a two-fold meaning: first, it refers to the doctrine of the "four ...
    8 KB (1,212 words) - 04:45, 18 August 2023
  • in psychometrics and an influential theorist of intelligence. He contributed ... The study of intelligence has been fraught with controversy, particularly ...
    13 KB (1,868 words) - 04:24, 6 October 2022
  • Category:Psychology Thanatology is the academic, and often scientific, study of death ...
    12 KB (1,762 words) - 15:06, 30 April 2023
  • region = Western Philosophy and Psychology | era = Nineteenth/Twentieth ... main_interests = Pragmatism, Psychology, Psychology of Religion, Epistemology ...
    19 KB (2,743 words) - 00:33, 21 May 2023
  • a person, community, tradition, or locus of inspiration. The object of ... 'loyalty' to a particular view of divinity, allegiance to a particular ...
    13 KB (1,952 words) - 00:32, 25 March 2024
  • psychologist who helped found the school of transpersonal psychology. He ... His humanistic model allowed psychologists and students of psychology ...
    21 KB (3,192 words) - 06:31, 14 June 2023
  • Category:Psychology Biological psychology, of biopsychology, is the application of the ...
    23 KB (3,212 words) - 17:55, 31 October 2023
  • refers to either (a) the content or meaning of a meaningful declarative sentence ... The existence of propositions in the former sense, as well as the ...
    13 KB (1,904 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022
  • widely with varied meanings in the fields of philosophy, analytical psychology ... such as Dao (Tao), the Vedic notion of rta, and the Hindu and Buddhist ...
    11 KB (1,664 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
  • 22, 1951) was an American sociologist, one of first sociologists who pursued ... essential socially beings, the understanding of whose interactions and interdependencies ...
    10 KB (1,419 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
  • by authoritarian systems. In this aspect of his thinking he was influenced ... Fromm's chief influence remains in the field of humanistic psychology ...
    15 KB (2,268 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
  • Italian psychiatrist, the founder of the psychological movement ... guide each person to understand the meaning of human life in all its contexts ...
    19 KB (2,962 words) - 21:30, 16 April 2023
  • 31, 1939) was an Austrian psychologist, one of Sigmund Freud's closest ... contexts, particularly in the areas of personal growth and self-actualization ...
    17 KB (2,538 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
  • Abhidharma (Sanskrit) or Abhidhamma (Pāli) is a category of Buddhist ... Historically, Abhidharma started as an elaboration of the teachings ...
    14 KB (1,967 words) - 04:47, 14 June 2023
  • was a clinical psychologist. Her main areas of research included schizophrenia ... Her research garnered the attention of respected psychological institutions ...
    13 KB (1,952 words) - 04:08, 6 November 2022
  • interactions or interplay. The rites of play are evident throughout ... Johan Huizinga gave an extensive analysis of play in his Homo Ludens ...
    11 KB (1,669 words) - 01:53, 10 April 2023
  • Often referred to as the "father of modern parapsychology," ... then an area closer to mysticism than psychology, let alone a "hard ...
    13 KB (1,908 words) - 01:09, 8 February 2023
  • known for first describing the phenomenon of classical conditioning, which ... father, Peter Dmitrievich Pavlov, was one of Ryazan's most respected ...
    11 KB (1,563 words) - 07:43, 12 March 2024
  • is a theory that asserts that the nature of complex things is reduced to ... positivists attempted to achieve the unity of science ("unified science ...
    13 KB (1,960 words) - 02:59, 8 December 2022
  • psychologist who theorized the existence of fluid and crystallized intelligences ... One of the most important results of Cattell's application of ...
    19 KB (2,804 words) - 19:07, 16 April 2023
  • not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws ... In philosophy and theology, eclecticism is the practice of selecting ...
    12 KB (1,821 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
  • and psychologist, a major philosopher of the “philosophy of life” ... the natures, conditions, and justifications of human knowledge particularly ...
    17 KB (2,371 words) - 19:48, 23 November 2022
  • Category:Psychology be called the "structural theory" of psychoanalysis in his 1923 ...
    17 KB (2,701 words) - 23:59, 12 February 2024
  • American psychologist. He is regarded as one of the most significant social ... the scientific method, he rejected any type of Reductionism, such as the Behavioristic ...
    22 KB (3,262 words) - 20:09, 25 October 2022
  • founded the humanistic approach to psychology. He developed Nondirective ... Rogers was born on January 8, 1902 in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb ...
    21 KB (3,040 words) - 00:14, 19 January 2024
  • symptomatic, from sema, sign) is a theory of the aspects of meanings of ... There are various kinds of studies in semantics in various fields ...
    13 KB (1,868 words) - 17:49, 25 January 2023
  • 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology. He was ... Born in Kesswil, in the Swiss canton of Thurgau on July 26, 1875, ...
    31 KB (4,736 words) - 19:19, 26 November 2023
  • dilemma" (so named because a version of it first appeared in Plato ... He discusses Abraham's dilemma of offering his son Isaac by a ...
    13 KB (1,986 words) - 15:31, 29 January 2024
  • to indicate the improper usage of science or scientific claims. ... The charge of scientism often is used as a counter-argument to appeals ...
    22 KB (3,110 words) - 02:36, 21 April 2023
  • for one's actions. The concept of autonomy is also found in education ... One of the best known philosophical theories of autonomy was developed ...
    16 KB (2,461 words) - 07:07, 23 August 2023
  • 1757) was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of ... David Hartley was born in June 1705 in the vicinity of Halifax, Yorkshire ...
    9 KB (1,402 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
  • 1945) was a Dutch historian, a philosopher of culture, and one of the founders ... The Autumn of the Middle Ages (1919), a masterpiece of cultural history ...
    10 KB (1,498 words) - 06:44, 5 April 2024
  • book Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), a study of "sexual perversity," ... , and studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg. ...
    13 KB (1,783 words) - 09:26, 10 August 2022
  • Category:Psychology Category:Submitted The collective unconscious refers to that part of the unconscious ...
    15 KB (2,390 words) - 22:33, 7 January 2024
  • the Encyclopædia Britannica and his book Religion of the Semites (1889), which ... Despite such accusations, Smith was a firm believer in religion and ...
    12 KB (1,721 words) - 10:46, 12 May 2023
  • Category:Psychology Abnormal psychology is the field devoted to the study of causes of ...
    21 KB (2,860 words) - 21:27, 25 January 2024

View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)