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James E. Alcock (born 24 December 1942) is Professor emeritus (Psychology) at York University (Canada). Alcock is a noted critic of parapsychology and a Fellow and Member of the Executive Council for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is a member of the Editorial Board of The Skeptical Inquirer, and a frequent contributor to the ...
26. Juni 2018 · Harriet Hall praises James Alcock's book Belief: What It Means to Believe and Why Our Convictions Are So Compelling. She summarizes the main themes and arguments of the book, which covers how the brain generates and maintains beliefs, how beliefs are influenced by perception, memory, learning, feeling, and thinking, and how beliefs can be changed or resisted.
7. Jan. 2020 · James Alcock is a Canadian psychology professor, author, and psi-skeptic. He has written books and articles on the psychology of belief, parapsychology, and skepticism, and has been involved in several controversies and debates with parapsychologists.
Based in Glasgow, Scotland, James Alcock is a BAFTA Scotland Award-winning filmmaker and editor with more than 17 years' experience editing documentaries for television, cinema and online.
a country perhaps, or a cause, or a religion—the belief for which they die might be based on illusion. In this Alcock argues what most psychologists now believe, that we humans have no direct access to reality. What we see and the way in which we understand the world are constructed by us.
James Alcock, Stan Sadava. SAGE, Jul 21, 2014 - Psychology - 656 pages. Psychology recognises no borders. The relationships between people and the groups they form are determined by similar...
James E. Alcock. Prometheus Books, 2018 - Philosophy - 638 pages. An expert on the psychology of belief examines how our thoughts and feelings, actions and reactions, respond not to the world...
