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Believing : the neuroscience of fantasies, fears, and convictions / Michael McGuire.

Author/creator McGuire, Michael T., 1929-
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2013.
Description267 pages ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. A Career Turns Upside Down -- Chapter 2. Where to Start? -- Chapter 3. Types and Uses -- Chapter 4. What Psychologists Have Found -- Chapter 5. Lessons from History -- Chapter 6. Evidence, Sources, and Interpretation -- Chapter 7. Seeing What We Believe -- Chapter 8. Religion as an Exception to Science-Or Is It? -- Chapter 9. Philosophical Considerations -- Chapter 10. Awareness, Belief, and the Physical Brain -- Chapter 11. The Biology of Belief -- Chapter 12. Enter Imaginings, Beliefs, Uncertainty, and Ambiguity -- Chapter 13. Theory of Mind, Mirroring, and Attribution -- Chapter 14. Stories and Models -- Chapter 15. Triggering -- Chapter 16. Intransigent Beliefs and Belief-Disconfirmation Failure -- Chapter 17. And Why? -- Chapter 18. What to Do? -- Notes -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 215-241) and index.
LCCN 2013022513
ISBN9781616148294 (pbk.)
ISBN1616148292 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks BF773 .M34 2013 ✔ Available Place Hold