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What is a Master’s in Applied Educational Psychology and what can it do for you? Find out in this latest episode of the Emerging Research in Educational Psychology podcast, with David Timony and Jeanette King: https://soundcloud.com/user-883650452/david-d-timony-jeanette-king


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The Corruption of Reality: A Unified Theory of Religion, Hypnosis, and Psychopathology by John F. Schumaker, 1995

This groundbreaking volume examines our sometimes strained grasp of reality and sheds new light on three subject areas that continue to fascinate researchers: religion, hypnosis and psychopathology.

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The Corruption of Reality challenges many of the ideas in all three disciplines and paves the way for an exciting, far-reaching and unified theory of conscious and unconscious behavior. Schumaker argues that, despite their apparent differences, religion, hypnosis, and psychopathology are all expressions of the unique human ability to modify and regulate reality in ways that ultimately serve the individual and society. In turn, these same behaviors can be traced to the brain's remarkable capacity to process information along multiple pathways, thus allowing the person to manipulate reality in strategic directions aimed at improved coping. He includes a historical and cross-cultural analysis showing how reality reconstruction takes place, and outlines the shortcomings of current psychotherapeutic approaches as well as the promising trends toward a spiritualization of psychotherapy. Sure to be labeled immoral by some organized-religion enthusiast, balderdash by some ultrarational pragmatist, Schumaker's book makes a case for the essential sameness of religion, hypnosis, and psychopathology. Cogently reasoned, laboriously constructed, its arguments are obviously not for everyone, but they will inspire and animate adherents and opponents alike. Are these three areas of human behavior merely different manifestations of the desire, conscious or unconscious, to bend reality and the perception of it to personal ends?
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    There’s an important gap between “hope” and “optimism.”

    Hope is not just about looking on the bright side. It plays the long game: enduring suffering with integrity.

    It’s something Martin Luther King understood when he said “I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.” But hope makes us act, anyway.

    https://theconversation.com/hope-is-not-the-same-as-optimism-a-psychologist-explains-just-look-at-mlks-example-226384
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    Excited to share the first, first-author publication by Robert Plumley on developing, testing, and replicating learning analytics models in large undergraduate biology courses! Kudos Robert! https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjet.13472


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    "Even though it was hoped that machines might overcome human bias, this assumption often fails due to a problematic or theoretically implausible selection of variables that are fed into the model and because of small size, low representativeness, and presence of bias in the training data [5.]."

    Suchotzki, K. and Gamer, M. (2024) 'Detecting deception with artificial intelligence: promises and perils,' Trends in Cognitive Sciences [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2024.04.002.

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