Cognitive Science


Thinking, Fast and Slow
How the Mind Works
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Consciousness Explained
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Metaphors We Live By
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Imaginistic rituals, especially more severe types involving high stress, trauma, or other forms of shared intense emotion, can lead to identity fusion. Identity fusion is a visceral sense of -oneness- with other group members where acts of self-sacrifice on behalf of the group are not uncommon. Imaginistic rituals tend to be more frequent among smaller, more closely-knit groups where a strong sense of unity is necessary to accomplish challenging goals (for example, sports teams, Nay Seals, subve ...more
Matt J. Rossano, Ritual in Human Evolution and Religion: Psychological and Ritual Resources

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David Ausubel

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