Belief: what it means to believe and why our convictions are so compelling 9781633884045, 9781633884038, 163388404X
"An expert on the psychology of belief examines how our thoughts and feelings, actions and reactions, respond not t
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English Year 2018
Table of contents :
Part I: The power of belief --
Belief to die for --
Part II: The belief engine --
When seeing is believing --
Believing what we remember --
Believing what we learn and feel --
Thinking and believing --
Part III: Belief stability and change --
In the garden of belief --
Preserving the roses --
Tending and tilling --
Credulity and deceit --
Part IV: Knowing ourselves --
Beliefs about ourselves --
Not quite in our right minds --
Belief and well-being --
Belief and healing --
Folk remedies and alternative medicine --
Part V: Belief in a world beyond --
Magic and superstition --
The god engine --
Things that go bump in the night --
Illusory experience --
A caboodle of strange beliefs --
Part VI: Vetting belief --
A firewall to folly --
Notes --
Index.
