Paul F Cunningham
Biographic Data
| ID | 5380727 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul F Cunningham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul F |
| FAMILY NAME | Cunningham |
| SIGNATURE | CUNNINGHAM P F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rivier University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Case for Animal Spirituality—Part 2
This is the second part of a two-part article presenting the theoretical and empirical case for nonhuman animal (hereafter, ‘animal’) spirituality. Part 1 discussed the relevance of evolutionary theory and species differences for understanding animals’ capacity to have spiritual experience, conceptual issues related to defining animal spirituality, and methodological considerations regarding analogical reasoning and animal-centered anthropomorphi…
Case for Animal Spirituality—Part 1
This is the first part of a two-part article that presents the theoretical and empirical case for nonhuman animal (hereafter, ‘animal’) spirituality. Part 1 discusses the relevance of evolutionary theory and species differences for understanding animals’ capacity to have spiritual experience, conceptual issues related to defining animal spirituality, and methodological considerations pertaining to the use of analogical reasoning and animalcentere…
The Challenges, Prospects, and Promise of Transpersonal Psychology
Several substantial critiques remain a source of fractionalizing debate within transpersonal\npsychology, including the weakness of its definition, whether it is redundant with Wilber’s\nintegral psychology, whether it is a scientific field, whether it is too metaphysical, whether it\nneglects the problem of evil, and what contribution can it make to mainstream psychology.\nThis article explicates these and related areas of critique and provides …
Transpersonal Education
Despite its substantial scientific, academic, and professional achievements, transpersonal psychology has\nnot been fully incorporated within traditional undergraduate psychology curricula. One reason is conventional\npsychology’s prejudiced perception of humanity’s spiritual nature. Other reasons lie within the field\nof transpersonal psychology itself, including the lack of agreed-upon general curricular models, absence of\nnormative educationa…
Animals in Psychology Education and Student Choice
This article identifies some of the important issues that underlie student-teacher conflicts regarding animal experimentation and dissection in psychology education. Understanding the reasons why students object to animal laboratories, why some teachers may refuse students access to non-animal alternatives, and why other teachers support student choice is an important first step in resolving student-teacher disputes regarding the use of animals i…
Revealing animal experiments in general psychology texts
Domjan and Purdy' s (July 1995) article made explicit three facts that teachers of psychology may not know but have long suspected: (a) Authors of general psychology textbooks cite animal experiments without mentioning that animal subjects were used; (b) authors discuss important concepts (e.g., motivation research) without mentioning that the work was based on animal experiments; and (c) authors describe results of animal experiments as if the r…
Topics Awaiting Study
Animals in Psychology Education and Student Choice
This article identifies some of the important issues that underlie student-teacher conflicts regarding animal experimentation and dissection in psychology education. Understanding the reasons why students object to animal laboratories, why some teachers may refuse students access to non-animal alternatives, and why other teachers support student choice is an important first step in resolving student-teacher disputes regarding the use of animals i…
Case for Animal Spirituality—Part 1
This is the first part of a two-part article that presents the theoretical and empirical case for nonhuman animal (hereafter, ‘animal’) spirituality. Part 1 discusses the relevance of evolutionary theory and species differences for understanding animals’ capacity to have spiritual experience, conceptual issues related to defining animal spirituality, and methodological considerations pertaining to the use of analogical reasoning and animalcentere…
Topics Awaiting Study
Topics Awaiting Study
Revealing animal experiments in general psychology texts
Domjan and Purdy' s (July 1995) article made explicit three facts that teachers of psychology may not know but have long suspected: (a) Authors of general psychology textbooks cite animal experiments without mentioning that animal subjects were used; (b) authors discuss important concepts (e.g., motivation research) without mentioning that the work was based on animal experiments; and (c) authors describe results of animal experiments as if the r…
Animals in Psychology Education and Student Choice
This article identifies some of the important issues that underlie student-teacher conflicts regarding animal experimentation and dissection in psychology education. Understanding the reasons why students object to animal laboratories, why some teachers may refuse students access to non-animal alternatives, and why other teachers support student choice is an important first step in resolving student-teacher disputes regarding the use of animals i…
Transpersonal Education
Despite its substantial scientific, academic, and professional achievements, transpersonal psychology has\nnot been fully incorporated within traditional undergraduate psychology curricula. One reason is conventional\npsychology’s prejudiced perception of humanity’s spiritual nature. Other reasons lie within the field\nof transpersonal psychology itself, including the lack of agreed-upon general curricular models, absence of\nnormative educationa…
The Challenges, Prospects, and Promise of Transpersonal Psychology
Several substantial critiques remain a source of fractionalizing debate within transpersonal\npsychology, including the weakness of its definition, whether it is redundant with Wilber’s\nintegral psychology, whether it is a scientific field, whether it is too metaphysical, whether it\nneglects the problem of evil, and what contribution can it make to mainstream psychology.\nThis article explicates these and related areas of critique and provides …
Case for Animal Spirituality—Part 2
This is the second part of a two-part article presenting the theoretical and empirical case for nonhuman animal (hereafter, ‘animal’) spirituality. Part 1 discussed the relevance of evolutionary theory and species differences for understanding animals’ capacity to have spiritual experience, conceptual issues related to defining animal spirituality, and methodological considerations regarding analogical reasoning and animal-centered anthropomorphi…
Case for Animal Spirituality—Part 1
This is the first part of a two-part article that presents the theoretical and empirical case for nonhuman animal (hereafter, ‘animal’) spirituality. Part 1 discusses the relevance of evolutionary theory and species differences for understanding animals’ capacity to have spiritual experience, conceptual issues related to defining animal spirituality, and methodological considerations pertaining to the use of analogical reasoning and animalcentere…
Psychology (7 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (3 works) · Animal and Plant Science Education (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Behavioral and Psychological Studies (2 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Human-Animal Interaction Studies (2 works)