Prayer in Response to Negative Intrusive Thoughts: Closer Examination of a Religious Neutralizing Strategy.

Few studies have systematically examined the covert neutralizing strategies that serve to maintain and exacerbate the frequency and distress related to intrusive thoughts. Given the lack of research i…

TOC et Scrupulosité Religieuse
Berman, N. C., Stark, A., Ramsey, K., Cooperman, A., & Abramowitz, J. S. (2014). Prayer in Response to Negative Intrusive Thoughts: Closer Examination of a Religious Neutralizing Strategy.. J Cogn Psychother, 28(2), 87-100. https://doi.org/10.1891/0889-8391.28.2.87

Incompleteness as a link between obsessive-compulsive personality traits and specific symptom dimensions of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

UNLABELLED: This paper examines the contribution of incompleteness/'not just right experiences' (NJREs) to an understanding of the relationship between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and obsessiv…

TOC et Scrupulosité Religieuse
Ecker, W., Kupfer, J., & Gönner, S. (2014). Incompleteness as a link between obsessive-compulsive personality traits and specific symptom dimensions of obsessive-compulsive disorder.. Clin Psychol Psychother, 21(5), 394-402. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.1842

Online survey as empathic bridging for the disenfranchised grief of pet loss.

The current cross-cultural study investigated grief reactions of bereaved individuals following the death of a pet. We used qualitative methodology to compare, analyze, and report responses of U.S. an…

Sortie, Deuil, Déconversion et Reconstruction Identitaire
Packman, W., Carmack, B. J., Katz, R., Carlos, F., Field, N. P., & Landers, C. (2014). Online survey as empathic bridging for the disenfranchised grief of pet loss.. Omega (Westport), 69(4), 333-56. https://doi.org/10.2190/OM.69.4.a

The place of magical thinking.

Biais Cognitifs et Croyances
Parker, D. (2014). The place of magical thinking.. Nurs N Z, 20(11), 19.

Priming psychic and conjuring abilities of a magic demonstration influences event interpretation and random number generation biases.

Magical ideation and belief in the paranormal is considered to represent a trait-like character; people either believe in it or not. Yet, anecdotes indicate that exposure to an anomalous event can tur…

Biais Cognitifs et Croyances
Mohr, C., Koutrakis, N., & Kuhn, G. (2014). Priming psychic and conjuring abilities of a magic demonstration influences event interpretation and random number generation biases.. Front Psychol, 5, 1542. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01542

Evaluation of magical thinking: validation of the Illusory Beliefs Inventory.

Magical thinking has been related to obsessive-compulsive disorder; yet, little research has examined this construct in other anxiety disorders. The Illusory Beliefs Inventory (IBI) is a recently deve…

Biais Cognitifs et Croyances
Shihata, S., Egan, S. J., & Rees, C. S. (2014). Evaluation of magical thinking: validation of the Illusory Beliefs Inventory.. Cogn Behav Ther, 43(3), 251-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/16506073.2014.926391

A bihemispheric autonomic model for traumatic stress effects on health and behavior.

A bihemispheric autonomic model (BHAM) may support advanced understanding of traumatic stress effects on physiology and behavior. The model builds on established data showing hemispheric lateralizatio…

Psychothérapies et Approches Cliniques
Lee, S. W., Gerdes, L., Tegeler, C. L., Shaltout, H. A., & Tegeler, C. H. (2014). A bihemispheric autonomic model for traumatic stress effects on health and behavior.. Front Psychol, 5, 843. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00843

Toward a model-based approach to the clinical assessment of personality psychopathology.

Recent years have witnessed tremendous growth in the scope and sophistication of statistical methods available to explore the latent structure of psychopathology, involving continuous, discrete, and h…

Biais Cognitifs et Croyances
Eaton, N. R., Krueger, R. F., Docherty, A. R., & Sponheim, S. R. (2014). Toward a model-based approach to the clinical assessment of personality psychopathology.. J Pers Assess, 96(3), 283-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2013.830263

The intelligence paradox; will ET get the metabolic syndrome? Lessons from and for Earth.

Mankind is facing an unprecedented health challenge in the current pandemic of obesity and diabetes. We propose that this is the inevitable (and predictable) consequence of the evolution of intelligen…

Groupes spécifiques
Nunn, A. V., Guy, G. W., & Bell, J. D. (2014). The intelligence paradox; will ET get the metabolic syndrome? Lessons from and for Earth.. Nutr Metab (Lond), 11, 34. https://doi.org/10.1186/1743-7075-11-34

The neural basis of belief updating and rational decision making.

Rational decision making under uncertainty requires forming beliefs that integrate prior and new information through Bayes' rule. Human decision makers typically deviate from Bayesian updating by eith…

Biais Cognitifs et Croyances
Achtziger, A., Alós-Ferrer, C., Hügelschäfer, S., & Steinhauser, M. (2014). The neural basis of belief updating and rational decision making.. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, 9(1), 55-62. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nss099

Cosmological immortality: how to eliminate aging on a universal scale.

The death of our universe is as certain as our individual death. Some cosmologists have elaborated models which would make the cosmos immortal. In this paper, I examine them as cosmological extrapolat…

Groupes spécifiques
Vidal, C. (2014). Cosmological immortality: how to eliminate aging on a universal scale.. Curr Aging Sci, 7(1), 3-8. https://doi.org/10.2174/1874609807666140521111107

Influence of religious aspects and personal beliefs on psychological behavior: focus on anxiety disorders.

The current paper presents literature relevant to the relationship of religiosity, spirituality, and personal beliefs with mental health and, in particular, anxiety disorders as an empirical narrative…

TOC et Scrupulosité Religieuse
Agorastos, A., Demiralay, C., & Huber, C. G. (2014). Influence of religious aspects and personal beliefs on psychological behavior: focus on anxiety disorders.. Psychol Res Behav Manag, 7, 93-101. https://doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S43666