Mind & Meaning: The Science Behind Belief
Brian C. AlstonA professional newsletter for psychologists exploring the intersection of science and belief systems, including neuroscience, psychology, and spirituality.
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Introduction
Healing is not only an individual process. People often speak about recovery as if it happens privately inside one person’s body or mind, but real healing is deeply relational. When someone is sick, grieving, anxious, recover...
Religious Coping in Times of Illness
Introduction
Illness does more than affect the body. It can disturb routines, threaten identity, increase fear, create financial pressure, strain relationships, and raise deep spiritual questions. People facing sickness often ask not only...
Placebo, Expectation, and Belief
Introduction
The human body does not respond only to medication, surgery, or physical treatment. It also responds to expectation, belief, meaning, and context. This is one of the most fascinating findings in health science: what people ex...
Faith and the Healing Journey
Introduction
Healing is not only a medical process. It is also emotional, relational, moral, and spiritual. When people face illness, injury, grief, trauma, surgery, chronic pain, or long recovery, they often ask questions that medicine a...
Gratitude, Awe, and the Human Brain
Introduction
Gratitude and awe are often treated as soft emotions—pleasant feelings that add warmth to life but are not essential to serious well-being. In reality, both are powerful psychological and spiritual experiences that shape how...
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I began my academic study of belief from the perspectives of Anthropology, Black studies, Political science, Religion and Sociology while a student at Amherst College.
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