Can Your Beliefs Impact Your Health and Well-Being?

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Pearson Education, Nov 3, 2010 - Education - 10 pages

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

This Element is an excerpt from Invisible Forces and Powerful Beliefs: Gravity, Gods, and Minds (9780137075454) by the Chicago Social Brain Network. Available in print and digital formats.

The new science of belief: what science is learning about the close interrelationships between belief, behavior, and human health.

People have many sources of information, knowledge, and understanding. We consider the most common to be empirically acquired--learned facts, relations, associations, and perceptual and motor skills. These are powerful determinants of thought and behavior. But other sources of information and knowledge also affect our interaction with the environment, including reflex-like circuits that are independent of explicit learning.

 

Contents

Section 1
Section 2
Section 3

Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2010)

The Chicago Social Brain Network is a network of more than a dozen scholars unbounded by disciplinary precincts or methodological perspectives. Its goal is to set aside antagonisms between science and humanities, explore diverse ways of seeing the world, and shed new light on the human mind. Network scholars hail from disciplines as disparate as psychology, neurology, theology, statistics, philosophy, internal medicine, anthropology, and sociology. Members interact on a daily or weekly basis, and the entire Network convenes twice annually for a four-day retreat to discuss each others’ research, critique each other, and learn from one another.

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TitleCan Your Beliefs Impact Your Health and Well-Being?
FT Press Delivers Elements
AuthorThe Chicago Social Brain Network
PublisherPearson Education, 2010
ISBN0132618982, 9780132618984
Length10 pages
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