Jacob Lang
Biographic Data
| ID | 6773152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob Lang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob |
| FAMILY NAME | Lang |
| SIGNATURE | LANG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University, Canada; University of Toronto, Canada |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3749-7199 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Role of Personality In Moving Encounters with Sacred Art
In Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions, the material world is understood to contain access points to the transcendent. An icon may move the awestruck believer to emotional engagement and reflection on moral and religious themes. Personality dispositions potentiating the experience of being moved in religious aesthetic contexts have not been thoroughly studied. The present article describes the development and testing of a cross-section…
Story writing and the “play of imagination”
Deeper than Belief
Based on “laws” of contagion and similarity, it is understood that people tend to believe that meanings associated with one object may be transferred onto another, and the meanings of the first may “contaminate” the second. The perceived contamination may influence the individual’s way of interacting with the object. We aimed to produce a rich description of individual differences that predict intuitive judgments in response to scenarios involvin…
A qualitative inquiry into the experience of sacred art among Eastern and Western Christians in Canada
This article begins with a review of studies in perception and depth psychology concerning the experience of exposure to sacred artworks in Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox contexts. This follows with the results of a qualitative inquiry involving 45 Roman Catholic, Eastern and Coptic Orthodox, and Protestant Christians in Canada. First, participants composed narratives detailing memories of spiritual experiences involving iconography. Then, i…
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A qualitative inquiry into the experience of sacred art among Eastern and Western Christians in Canada
This article begins with a review of studies in perception and depth psychology concerning the experience of exposure to sacred artworks in Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox contexts. This follows with the results of a qualitative inquiry involving 45 Roman Catholic, Eastern and Coptic Orthodox, and Protestant Christians in Canada. First, participants composed narratives detailing memories of spiritual experiences involving iconography. Then, i…
Deeper than Belief
Based on “laws” of contagion and similarity, it is understood that people tend to believe that meanings associated with one object may be transferred onto another, and the meanings of the first may “contaminate” the second. The perceived contamination may influence the individual’s way of interacting with the object. We aimed to produce a rich description of individual differences that predict intuitive judgments in response to scenarios involvin…
The Role of Personality In Moving Encounters with Sacred Art
In Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions, the material world is understood to contain access points to the transcendent. An icon may move the awestruck believer to emotional engagement and reflection on moral and religious themes. Personality dispositions potentiating the experience of being moved in religious aesthetic contexts have not been thoroughly studied. The present article describes the development and testing of a cross-section…
Story writing and the “play of imagination”
Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Art Therapy and Mental Health (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Personality (2 works)