جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « religious experience » در نشریات گروه « روانشناسی »

This article critically reviews the literature on neuroscience of religion and spirituality. Studies, based on the applied task, were categorized and reviewed and their problems have been addressed. Using insufficient and too small samples, being artificial, being non-experimental, lack of control, not addressing the intervening variables were among the most common methodological problems. This review showed that religious, spiritual, and mystical experiences were not associated with any particular cortical or sub-cortical region. This finding seems to show that such experiences phenomenologically are not of one single experience, and probably there is not such thing as “God zone” in the brain. The frontal lobe was more than any other lobes involved in religious, spiritual, and mystical experiences which may show the relative importance of cognition in such experiences, in comparison with emotion. In addition, the probability experimentally inducing religious experience and the idea that religion is pathological have been questioned.

the aim of the present study was to investigate the role of religious experiences in predicting social problem solving. Four hundred and sixteen students who studied in MA level at Shiraz University were selected using multistage cluster sampling. The participants completed the Religious Fundamentalism-Revised Questionnaire (RF-R) (Altemeyer & Hunsberger, 2004), the Quest scale (Batson & Schoenrade, 1991) and the Social Problem Solving inventory-Revised Short Form (SPS-R:SF) (D’Zurilla, Nezu,&Maydeu-Olivares, 2002). The data were analyzed using multiple regression (stepwise method). The results indicated that self-criticism (one dimension of the quest) was the positive and significant predictor of positive problem solving orientation. Self-criticism and complexity were the positive and significant predictors of rational problem solving. Moreover, the fundamentalism was the positive and significant predictor of negative problem solving orientation, and tolerance was the negative and significant predictor of negative problem orientation. The regression analysis indicated that tolerance, fundamentalism and selfcriticism significantly predicted impulsive/avoidance problem solving style
The findings suggested that the religious experience may play an important role in social problem solving styles