Sobre El Autor
David DeSteno is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University. He is also a fellow of the American Psychological Association, where he served as editor in chief of the journal Emotion. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, and other publications.
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- Biografía breve
- David DeSteno is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, where he directs the Social Emotions Group. At the broadest level, his work examines the mechanisms of the mind that shape vice and virtue. Studying hypocrisy and compassion, pride and punishment, cheating and trust, his work continually reveals that human moral behavior is much more variable than most would predict.
David is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association, for which he serves as editor-in-chief of the journal Emotion. His work has been repeatedly funded by the National Science Foundation and has been regularly featured in the media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CBS Sunday Morning, NPR's Radiolab and Talk of the Nation, and USA Today.
He is the author of the new book The Truth About Trust and co-author of The Wall Street Journal spotlight psychology bestseller Out of Character. He has written about his research for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Harvard Business Review, Pacific Standard, and The Atlantic.
David received his Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University.
http://www.davedesteno.com/about/
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How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of… por David DeSteno
This book identifies common problems that happen in different stages of human life, how some religious practices deal with the problem, and how scientific research supports the effectiveness of these religious practices. The religious practices are drawn from a spectrum of religions. I was most interested in Christian practices and how science supports their effectiveness, so I skipped over all the non-Christian religious practices. So technically....I didn't really finish the book cover to cover lol I enjoyed the snippets I read, though. I learned scientific research has demonstrated religious people are more healthy mentally and physically. There's a section on the Christian practice of healing for the sick and how it can be explained by the placebo effect -- and an emphasis on how placebo effect actually works really well in boosting human self recovery and is something that should be seen as desirable. There is another section on how being certain in what happens after death is good for one's emotional well being. There's a brief discussion on Christian's view on suffering as a good thing for developing your character -- the author says research does confirm this for individuals who don't respond to suffering with blame or bitterness.… (más)
The book looks at the intersection of Science and Religion by digging into the realm of human psychology and sociology to understand the impact of belief/faith, ritual/practice and cognitive dissonance encountered within a religious framework (even removed from the spiritual connections) on general health and wellbeing. This is an ambitious goal to be sure. The basic premise is that the relative success of religion through-out human history points to something they must be doing right … and the author calls these "spiritual technologies.” He then makes a parallel with the bioprospecting of biologics in the early history of modern medicine to argue that we should also be examining these spiritual technologies to see what actually works and why.
“Recent experiments have shown that even an arbitrary set of actions, when ritualized, can help people … Which rituals - which combinations of elements - work best? And it’s here that religions have a vast head start. They’ve ‘debugged’ the technologies that they’ve used through centuries."
DeSteno explores the following:
1. Infancy: Welcoming and Binding … how communities help from the very beginning of Life
2. The Formative Years: Learning What’s Right and Wrong … how the moral teaching within religions work
3. Coming of Age: Adulting Isn’t Easy … how Rites of Passage work
4. Transcending the Twenties and Thirties: Love, Connection, and (Maybe) Ecstasy … how physical intimacy works ... along with meditation and asceticism (right-handing path) and mysticism (left-hand path) to transcend the mundane into the sacred. (Echos of Dr. Campbell here)
5. The Business of Midlife I: Maintenance for the Body … how the power of belief works (Placebo effects are legit)
6. The Business of Midlife II: Maintenance for the Spirit … getting in touch with our mortality and reflecting on the end (Reconcillation and Detachment) and the midlife transition to service of others
7. Saying Goodbye: All That Lives Must Die … how ‘Last Rites” work and preparing for the End.
While all of this was very interesting and educational, it lacked solid experimental support (generally because of ethical reasons inhibiting such experimentation). In the end, this was not as illuminating as I was expecting, but still well worth the read.
I was given this free advance reader copy (ARC) ebook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
#HowGodWorks #NetGalley… (más)
“Recent experiments have shown that even an arbitrary set of actions, when ritualized, can help people … Which rituals - which combinations of elements - work best? And it’s here that religions have a vast head start. They’ve ‘debugged’ the technologies that they’ve used through centuries."
1. Infancy: Welcoming and Binding … how communities help from the very beginning of Life
2. The Formative Years: Learning What’s Right and Wrong … how the moral teaching within religions work
3. Coming of Age: Adulting Isn’t Easy … how Rites of Passage work
4. Transcending the Twenties and Thirties: Love, Connection, and (Maybe) Ecstasy … how physical intimacy works ... along with meditation and asceticism (right-handing path) and mysticism (left-hand path) to transcend the mundane into the sacred. (Echos of Dr. Campbell here)
5. The Business of Midlife I: Maintenance for the Body … how the power of belief works (Placebo effects are legit)
6. The Business of Midlife II: Maintenance for the Spirit … getting in touch with our mortality and reflecting on the end (Reconcillation and Detachment) and the midlife transition to service of others
7. Saying Goodbye: All That Lives Must Die … how ‘Last Rites” work and preparing for the End.
While all of this was very interesting and educational, it lacked solid experimental support (generally because of ethical reasons inhibiting such experimentation). In the end, this was not as illuminating as I was expecting, but still well worth the read.
I was given this free advance reader copy (ARC) ebook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
#HowGodWorks #NetGalley… (más)
Thoughtful but easy read. Very clear writing style.
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- 4
- Miembros
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