Category Archives: Useful Readings

Is consciousness a battle between your beliefs and perceptions? Hakwan Lau Hakwan Lauis a professor of behavioural neuroscience at the University of California, Los Angeles, and he also holds an appointment at the University of Hong Kong. His work has been published in Science, Nature Neuroscience and Neuron among others. Imagine you’re at a magic show, in which the performerContinue reading “Is consciousness a battle between your beliefs and perceptions?”

By Dr Francois Hanekom, CPSC affiliate Published in CPSC Notes No 7 February 2019 As psychologists, Drs John and Julie Gottman have been doing research about Couples Therapy for 40 years at the Washington University in Seattle, USA. The Magazine Psychology Today calls Dr John Gottman the “Einstein of Love”.They studied many hours of videoContinue reading “Couples Therapy”

 Postfoundationalist research paradigm – http://fnel.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2018-11-Postfoundationalist-research-paradigm.pdf ABSTRACTPractical theology describes a context, interprets what has been discovered, brings in Christiannorms, and constructs models of Christian practice. It is a process that involves epistemologyand hermeneutics. For practical theology to be transformative, a postfoundational theologicalframework that allows interdisciplinary work and interpretation of experience in a given contextis essential. ResearchContinue reading “Postfoundationalist”

IT IS NOT ALL IN YOUR HEAD Written by Lauri Nummenmaa Associate Professor in Medical Image Analysis, University of Turku Lauri Nummenmaa is an associate professor in medical image analysis the University of Turku in Finland, where he leads the Human Emotion Systems laboratory at Turku PET Centre and Department of Psychology. Nummenmaa studies emotionsContinue reading “IT IS NOT ALL IN YOUR HEAD”

Five reasons why 2018 was a big year for palaeontology Julien Benoit, Postdoc in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. A lot happened in the world of palaeontology in 2018. Some of the big events included some major fossilContinue reading “New Developments in Palaeontology”