Over the last three decades, a growing number of scientists and clinicians have been investigating the utility of meditative practices as attention and emotion regulation strategies. Many studies have provided evidence that mindfulness meditation can have positive effects on psychotherapists’ capacity to offer presence, acceptance and empathy to their clients. More recently, loving-kindness med...

Despite the cultural ubiquity of ideas and images related to God, relatively little is known about the effects of exposure to God representations on behavior. Specific depictions of God differ across religions, but common to most is that God is (a) an omnipotent, controlling force and (b) an omniscient, all-knowing being. Given these 2 characteristic features, how might exposure to the concept ...

Violent people often claim that God sanctions their actions. In two studies, participants read a violent passage said to come from either the Bible or an ancient scroll. For half the participants, the passage said that God sanctioned the violence. Next, participants competed with an ostensible partner on a task in which the winner could blast the loser with loud noise through headphones (the ag...

labored under the historic burden of its essential mission being that of carrying out the work of God, a mission for which material reward was deemed unimportant. A second, and lower, minimum wage existed for employed hospital workers, and many institutions were peopled by nuns and others paid far less than the prevailing wage elsewhere. Juxtaposed with this otherworldly view, the hospital was ...

We present a novel experiment to evaluate the role of confusion in explaining the dynamics of contributions in public goods experiments. In a learning condition we keep the subjects confused by withholding the information that would be necessary for them to understand the game. The comparison of the results with those of a standard public goods treatment provides a lower bound for the influence...

This article attempts to answer the question of God’s compassion during and after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Many people are asking questions about care love amid situations where they could not mourn loss loved ones find closure. African philosophy death, mourning rituals funeral ceremonies were curtailed or restricted by government therefore, mourners left with wounds becau...

To my sons, Joseph and Joel iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS " Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. " (Hebrews 11:1) I would like to thank God for his help and guidance in my life at Georgia Institute of Technology. I would like to thank my advisor, Linda Milor for exhibiting immeasurable patience and superior guidance during the course of my graduate work. I would ...

Fungal glucose oxidase (GOD) is widely employed in the different sectors of food industries for use in baking products, dry egg powder, beverages, and gluconic acid production. GOD also has several other novel applications in chemical, pharmaceutical, textile, and other biotechnological industries. The electrochemical suitability of GOD catalyzed reactions has enabled its successful use in bioe...