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Book Review: Moral development & reality: Beyond the theories of Kholberg, Hoffman, and Haidt (4th ed.)

Description: Review of a book titled "Moral development & reality: Beyond the theories of Kohlberg, Hoffman and Haidt," written by John C. Gibbs, a professor of developmental psychology. This book explores theories of promoting prosocial behavior and morals in at-risk and delinquent youth, and addresses the theories of Jonathan Haidt, Lawrence Kohlberg, and Martin Hoffman regarding moral development.
Date: Spring 2020
Creator: Wade, Jenny
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Editor's Foreword [Spring 2020]

Description: Editorial statement introducing the contents of the journal issue and providing other relevant notes. This issue includes articles that examine empirical data related to near-death experiences.
Date: Spring 2020
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
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The Mystical Experience and Its Neural Correlates

Description: Abstract: Despite their different etiologies, three types of spiritually transformative experiences (STEs)--near-death experiences, psilocybin experiences, and meditative experiences of cosmic consciousness--appear to have attributes that are common to a broad range of mystical experiences, including an experience of expanded awareness. In addition, all three appear to be associated with profound and lasting transformations in the lives of experiencers. Finally, these three experiences appear t… more
Date: Spring 2020
Creator: Woollacott, Marjorie & Shumway-Cook, Anne
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The Significance of Autoscopies as a Time Marker for the Occurrence of Near-Death Experiences

Description: Abstract: The physiological and psychological underpinnings of near-death experiences (NDEs) are not yet understood. In this article, we show that for "critical" NDEs reported after cardiac arrest, two different neurophysiological models have been proposed that, in the literature so far, have not been adequately distinguished from each other. In the real-time model, it is postulated that during critical NDEs, residual activities in the cerebrum were sufficient to generate NDEs in real time. In … more
Date: Spring 2020
Creator: Nahm, Michael & Weibel, Adrian
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