Quinton Deeley
Biographic Data
| ID | 5083539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Quinton Deeley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Quinton |
| FAMILY NAME | Deeley |
| SIGNATURE | DEELEY Q |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5306-0769 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Playing with the dials of belief
Contemporary generative AI systems, increasingly adapted to human social cognition, are becoming active participants in how people form and revise beliefs. Clinicians have begun to describe AI-associated delusion-centred presentations whose onset or content appears closely associated with users’ extended dialogue with large language models. Many more users report subclinical shifts in conviction and “revelatory” experiences that alter behaviour a…
Social interaction spheres, the self, and the meanings of “prediction”
A Blending of Energies
Energy" is a central concept among spirit mediums in the United Kingdom. This article investigates how energy is understood by spirit mediums and the practices by which energy comes to be experienced and accepted as real. Interviews with forty such mediums revealed a shared understanding of energy that participants used reasonably consistently. We argue that the concept of energy is learned both conceptually, through metaphors, and practically, t…
Experiencing and believing in invisible others
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Direct verbal suggestibility
Revelatory experiences
Reports of supernatural agents (such as God or gods, demons, or spirits) speaking or acting through humans are present across cultures and periods of history in experiences of revelation and posses
The relationship between different types of dissociation and psychosis-like experiences in a non-clinical sample
Using suggestion to model different types of automatic writing
The religious brain
This paper is a critical review of anthropology and cognitive science that proposes social, cognitive, and neural mechanisms that convert culturally transmitted ideas into beliefs, discussed in relation to Geertz's classic definition of religion ('Religion as a cultural system', 1966). Literal and analogical uses of language, and a capacity for mentalizing thought, allow the creation of systems of symbols that vary between groups, contributing to…
The religious brain
This paper is a critical review of anthropology and cognitive science that proposes social, cognitive, and neural mechanisms that convert culturally transmitted ideas into beliefs, discussed in relation to Geertz's classic definition of religion ('Religion as a cultural system', 1966). Literal and analogical uses of language, and a capacity for mentalizing thought, allow the creation of systems of symbols that vary between groups, contributing to…
The religious brain
This paper is a critical review of anthropology and cognitive science that proposes social, cognitive, and neural mechanisms that convert culturally transmitted ideas into beliefs, discussed in relation to Geertz's classic definition of religion ('Religion as a cultural system', 1966). Literal and analogical uses of language, and a capacity for mentalizing thought, allow the creation of systems of symbols that vary between groups, contributing to…
Using suggestion to model different types of automatic writing
The relationship between different types of dissociation and psychosis-like experiences in a non-clinical sample
Revelatory experiences
Reports of supernatural agents (such as God or gods, demons, or spirits) speaking or acting through humans are present across cultures and periods of history in experiences of revelation and posses
Direct verbal suggestibility
Experiencing and believing in invisible others
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Social interaction spheres, the self, and the meanings of “prediction”
A Blending of Energies
Energy" is a central concept among spirit mediums in the United Kingdom. This article investigates how energy is understood by spirit mediums and the practices by which energy comes to be experienced and accepted as real. Interviews with forty such mediums revealed a shared understanding of energy that participants used reasonably consistently. We argue that the concept of energy is learned both conceptually, through metaphors, and practically, t…
Playing with the dials of belief
Contemporary generative AI systems, increasingly adapted to human social cognition, are becoming active participants in how people form and revise beliefs. Clinicians have begun to describe AI-associated delusion-centred presentations whose onset or content appears closely associated with users’ extended dialogue with large language models. Many more users report subclinical shifts in conviction and “revelatory” experiences that alter behaviour a…
Psychology (8 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Neuroscience (4 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works)