Patrick Mcnamara
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3587697 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Patrick Mcnamara |
| PRENOMES | Patrick |
| SOBRENOME | Mcnamara |
| ASSINATURA | MCNAMARA P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2756-0887 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1973 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
From Groups to Gods
Explore the 'group mind' phenomenon and uncover its influences on religious and political experiences. This book investigates the idea that human groups, under certain conditions, can develop distinct personalities and possess 'minds' characterized by quasi-rational decision-making processes, emotions, intentional states, and actions in the world. Utilizing expert research, Patrick McNamara applies the explosion of findings in collective cognitio…
Prodromal dreams
I present a provisional model and promising evidence, pending robust longitudinal validation, for the possibility of prodromal dreams: dreams that predict onset of illness before overt symptoms appear. Interoceptive signals are compressed and summated/integrated within brain networks that are most highly active during REM sleep. If there is a bodily problem an error signal is generated and the brain then attempts to infer a cause or explanation f…
The "demonic" in dreams and nightmares
Nightmare disorder in women
Sleep and dream disturbances associated with dissociative experiences
Some dissociative experiences may be related, in part, to REM intrusion into waking consciousness. If so, some aspects of dream content may be associated with daytime dissociative experiences. We tested the hypothesis that some types of dream content would predict daytime dissociative symptomology. As part of a longitudinal study of the impact of dreams on everyday behavior we administered a battery of survey instruments to 219 volunteers. Assess…
Finding consonance
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by John Templeton Foundation [grant number 62034]
Finding consonance
We selectively review existing neuroscience research on theistic relational cognition—construed as ritual practices directed toward supernatural agents. We present a tentative framework rooted in cultural and evolutionary models of religion for understanding the disparate findings of emerging neuroscience research on theistic cognition. We propose (with E. B. Davis et al. [2018]) that theistic cognition involves both experiential and group-sancti…
The Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams
The Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams provides comprehensive coverage of the basic neuroscience of both sleep and dreams for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. It details new scientific discoveries, places those discoveries within evolutionary context, and links established findings with implications for sleep medicine. This second edition focuses on recent developments in the social nature of sleep and dreams. Coverage includes the …
Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams
The interaction between neuroscience and theology is producing a new personalism
Supernatural Agent Cognitions in Dreams
Purpose: To test the hypothesis that supernatural agents (SAs) appear in nightmares and dreams in association with evidence of diminished agency within the dreamer/dream ego. Methods: Content analyses of 120 nightmares and 71 unpleasant control dream narratives. Results: We found that SAs overtly occur in about one quarter of unpleasant dreams and about half of nightmares. When SAs appear in a dream or nightmare they are reliably associated with …
Virtual reality-enabled treatment of nightmares
“History…Is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake”
Political Refugees from El Salvador
Mutual dreaming
Cognitive Phenomenology of Religious Experience in Religious Narratives, Dreams, and Nightmares
McNamara (2009) hypothesized that a 4-step sequential decentering process (diminished agency, liminality, effort, and success) characterized the phenomenology of religious and spiritual experiences (RSES) and was rooted in dreams and nightmares. We content analyzed 50 RSES, 50 dreams, and 50 nightmares for presence and ordering of elements of the decentering process. Thirty-six percent of RSES, 48% of dreams, and 44% of nightmares had all four de…
Dreams as a source of supernatural agent concepts
We present a theory of the creativity of dreams as well as psychopathology of religious delusions with respect to production of fundamental forms of religious cognition-specifically supernatural agent (SA) cognitions. We suggest that dream cognitions are particularly efficient at producing highly memorable and impactful experiences with SAs because dreams involve three processes that are prerequisites for the generation of god concepts: (1) menta…
Perceptions of Health Professionals on Pain in Extremely Low Gestational Age Infants
Extremely low gestational age infants (<28 weeks at birth) experience significant pain from repeated therapeutic procedures while hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit. As part of a program of research examining pain in preterm infants, we conducted a qualitatively driven mixed-methods design, supplemented with a qualitative and quantitative component, to understand how health care professionals (HCPs) assess and manage procedural pain…
Aggression in nightmares and unpleasant dreams and in people reporting recurrent nightmares
Ethnography and Experiments in the Scientific Study of Religion
Social scientists and religious studies scholars have long recognized religion's ability to strengthen bonds between adherents and create a sense of cohesiveness, or communitas, as Turner notably d
Theoretical Neuroscience
REM sleep, dreams, and attachment themes across a single night of sleep
REM has been linked with consolidation of emotional memories and therefore may influence attachment processes. We tested the hypothesis that content of EEG verified REM sleep dreams would change over the course of a single night as a function of attachment orientation, whereas content of NREM dreams would not. After a habituation night in the sleep lab, a convenience sample of 11 healthy volunteers, whose attachment orientations were measured, we…
My Zapotec Museum
This article offers a close reading of two sites of memory in Oaxaca's Sierra Zapoteca: a community museum about mining in the region and the ruins of a giant textile factory. While the factory ruins are difficult to find and effectively hidden by the Zapotec peasants using the land for farming, the museum at Natividad is open to the public and celebrates the role of Zapotec miners in this industrial sector. Together, both of these sites reveal a…
The Scientific Study of Religion
Bio-Cultural Approaches to Social Forms
The Value of Volunteers as Resources for Congregations
R. Hoge, Charles Zech, Patrick McNamara, Michael J. Donahue, The Value of Volunteers as Resources for Congregations, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Sep., 1998), pp. 470-480
Aggression in nightmares and unpleasant dreams and in people reporting recurrent nightmares
Counterfactual cognitive operations in dreams
We hypothesized that counterfactual (CF) thought occurs in dreams and that cognitive operations in dreams function to identify a norm violation or novel outcome (recorded in episodic memory) and then to integrate this new content into memory by generating counterfactuals to the violation. In study 1 we compared counterfactual content in 50 dream reports, 50 pain memory reports and 50 pleasant memory reports (equated for word length) and found a s…
Dreams as a source of supernatural agent concepts
We present a theory of the creativity of dreams as well as psychopathology of religious delusions with respect to production of fundamental forms of religious cognition-specifically supernatural agent (SA) cognitions. We suggest that dream cognitions are particularly efficient at producing highly memorable and impactful experiences with SAs because dreams involve three processes that are prerequisites for the generation of god concepts: (1) menta…
Representation of the self in REM and NREM dreams
The authors hypothesized that representations of the Self (or the dreamer) in dreams would change systematically, from a prereflective form of Self to more complex forms, as a function of both age and sleep state (REM vs. non-REM). These hypotheses were partially confirmed. While the authors found that all the self-concept-related dream content indexes derived from the Hall/Van de Castle dream content scoring system did not differ significantly b…
Ficheras and free-lancers
Political Refugees from El Salvador
Counterfactual thought in dreams
Counterfactual cognitive simulations are considerations of what might have been if what actually happened could be undone. I hypothesize that counterfactual thought is characteristic of dreams and that cognitive operations in dreams function to identify a norm violation recorded in autobiographical memory and then to re-instate normality in memory by generating counterfactuals to the violation. Dream counterfactuals therefore obey the same constr…
Supernatural Agent Cognitions in Dreams
Purpose: To test the hypothesis that supernatural agents (SAs) appear in nightmares and dreams in association with evidence of diminished agency within the dreamer/dream ego. Methods: Content analyses of 120 nightmares and 71 unpleasant control dream narratives. Results: We found that SAs overtly occur in about one quarter of unpleasant dreams and about half of nightmares. When SAs appear in a dream or nightmare they are reliably associated with …
The influence of race on approaching families for organ donation and their decision to donate
OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether patients' race was associated with their families' being approached for organ donation and agreeing to donation. METHODS: Logistic regression models were applied to data collected from records at 112 hospitals. RESULTS: The odds that a family of a White patient was approached for donation were nearly twice those for a family of an African American. The odds of donation also differed by race, but the magnitu…
Handedness and dream content
We tested the hypothesis that dream content would vary as a Junction of handedness. Seventy-nine self-reported right-handers and 30 self-reported left-handers provided written descriptions of a recent dream. There were no significant differences between handedness groups in mean word length per dream or in mean theme/word ratios. However, compared to dreams reported by right-handers, the dreams of left-handers were characterized by a significantl…
Virtual reality-enabled treatment of nightmares
Perceptions of Health Professionals on Pain in Extremely Low Gestational Age Infants
Extremely low gestational age infants (<28 weeks at birth) experience significant pain from repeated therapeutic procedures while hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit. As part of a program of research examining pain in preterm infants, we conducted a qualitatively driven mixed-methods design, supplemented with a qualitative and quantitative component, to understand how health care professionals (HCPs) assess and manage procedural pain…
Evaluating Reliance on Narratives in the Psychological Study of Religious Experiences
In studying religious and spiritual experiences (RSEs), psychologists of religion have relied heavily on narratives. How sound is this practice? Using the Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory (PCI), we diagnosed basic features of RSEs as narrated by 39 participants. This information permitted comparison with third-party ratings of narratives of the same experiences using the PCI's phenomenological categories. Analyzing participant ratings aga…
Dream content and memory processing
Parkinson's Disease and Politeness
Prior research suggests that people with Parkinson's disease (PD) display certain deficiencies in their use of language. In this research, the authors used a role-playing technique to examine their ability to say things politely and to vary their level of politeness as a function of the social context. PD participants, relative to control participants, produced less polite strategies and failed to vary their politeness as a function of the size o…
Challenges Facing the Neurological Study of Religious Behavior, Belief, and Experience
The neurological study of religious behavior, belief, and experience faces many challenges related to research conception, experimental design, and interpretation of results. Some of these problems are common to other types of neurological study of behavioral and cognitive phenomena. Others are distinctive to the specifically religious domain of behavior, belief, and experience. This paper discusses eight of these problems and three key strategic…
Rem sleep, early experience, and the development of reproductive strategies
Bergson's theory of dreaming
Ficheras and free-lancers
Religion and Power, Decline and Growth
Presbyterian Missions and Cultural Interaction in the Far Southwest
Teaching the Sociology of Religion as a Reflective Enterprise
L'enseignement de la sociologie de la religion peut etre envisage dans le contexte des recentes critiques formulees a l'encontre de l'ensemble de l'enseignement universitaire aux Etats-Unis. Ces critiques sont focalisees sur le manque d'encouragement a une reflexion personnelle des etudiants qui provient de l'oubli et du phenomene de croissance du spirituel et de la valeur reelle d'une formation. En resultent une desaffection vis-a-vis des respon…
Memory, Double, Shadow, and Evil
In order to examine shadow dynamics the author explores the phenomenology and mythological associations of the 'double' or Doppelgänger. Current Jungian-inspired theories concerning relations of shadow and double are found to be limited because they do not explain (1) the process of personification of the psychic complex which gives rise to the double, (2) the immediate conditions under which doubling occurs, (3) the conditions which lead to the …
Religion as Poetry
Bergson's theory of dreaming
Pulpit Politics
Journal Article Pulpit Politics: Faces of American Protestant Nationalism in the Twentieth Century, by Warren L. Vinz. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997, xii + 267 pp. $19.95 Get access Patrick McNamara Patrick McNamara University of New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 58, Issue 4, Winter 1997, Pages 401–402, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711931 Published: 01 …
Plain Talk about Churches and Money
Based on extensive research, this volume offers insight and help on the key fiscal topics confronting church leaders today, including: Why is the church so uneasy with the topic of money? Is there a difference between stewardship and fundraising? How can we motivate giving? Should we invest church funds? It tackles the resistance, fears, and difficulties about money common in congregations. The book is must reading for lay leaders and anyone in p…
Attachment hypothesis of REM sleep
In this article the authors propose, on the basis of a review of the evolutionary and neuropsychological study of REM sleep, that REM sleep functions to promote attachment and that in the mature state it may promote sexual pair bonding and serve related compensatory functions.The attachment hypothesis is consistent with known psychobiologic correlates of REM sleep, with classical psychoanalytic theory regarding dreams, and with evidence from rese…
Attachment hypothesis of REM sleep
In this article the authors propose, on the basis of a review of the evolutionary and neuropsychological study of REM sleep, that REM sleep functions to promote attachment and that in the mature state it may promote sexual pair bonding and serve related compensatory functions. The attachment hypothesis is consistent with known psychobiologic correlates of REM sleep, with classical psychoanalytic theory regarding dreams, and with evidence from res…
Handedness and dream content
We tested the hypothesis that dream content would vary as a Junction of handedness. Seventy-nine self-reported right-handers and 30 self-reported left-handers provided written descriptions of a recent dream. There were no significant differences between handedness groups in mean word length per dream or in mean theme/word ratios. However, compared to dreams reported by right-handers, the dreams of left-handers were characterized by a significantl…
Money Matters
The Value of Volunteers as Resources for Congregations
R. Hoge, Charles Zech, Patrick McNamara, Michael J. Donahue, The Value of Volunteers as Resources for Congregations, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Sep., 1998), pp. 470-480
Money Matters
The influence of race on approaching families for organ donation and their decision to donate
OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether patients' race was associated with their families' being approached for organ donation and agreeing to donation. METHODS: Logistic regression models were applied to data collected from records at 112 hospitals. RESULTS: The odds that a family of a White patient was approached for donation were nearly twice those for a family of an African American. The odds of donation also differed by race, but the magnitu…
Counterfactual thought in dreams
Counterfactual cognitive simulations are considerations of what might have been if what actually happened could be undone. I hypothesize that counterfactual thought is characteristic of dreams and that cognitive operations in dreams function to identify a norm violation recorded in autobiographical memory and then to re-instate normality in memory by generating counterfactuals to the violation. Dream counterfactuals therefore obey the same constr…
Religion in Mind
Religion in Mind is a 2001 text which summarizes and extends the advances in the cognitive study of religion throughout the 1990s. It uses empirical research from psychology and anthropology to illuminate various components of religious belief, ritual, and experience. The book examines cognitive dimensions of religion within a naturalistic view of culture, while respecting the phenomenology of religion and drawing together teachers of religion, p…
Rem sleep, early experience, and the development of reproductive strategies
Counterfactual cognitive operations in dreams
We hypothesized that counterfactual (CF) thought occurs in dreams and that cognitive operations in dreams function to identify a norm violation or novel outcome (recorded in episodic memory) and then to integrate this new content into memory by generating counterfactuals to the violation. In study 1 we compared counterfactual content in 50 dream reports, 50 pain memory reports and 50 pleasant memory reports (equated for word length) and found a s…
Research
To test the hypothesis that frontal lobe functions mediate effects of religiosity on health, verbal and design fluency tasks, religiosity scales and self-report measures of health were administered to 80 community dwelling older persons. Low to moderate correlations were obtained between measures of fluency performance, intrinsic religiosity, and self-reported number of illnesses. Participants with both high fluency scores and high prayer (freque…
Counterfactual cognitive operations in dreams
Sons of the Sierra
Representation of the self in REM and NREM dreams
The authors hypothesized that representations of the Self (or the dreamer) in dreams would change systematically, from a prereflective form of Self to more complex forms, as a function of both age and sleep state (REM vs. non-REM). These hypotheses were partially confirmed. While the authors found that all the self-concept-related dream content indexes derived from the Hall/Van de Castle dream content scoring system did not differ significantly b…
Challenges Facing the Neurological Study of Religious Behavior, Belief, and Experience
The neurological study of religious behavior, belief, and experience faces many challenges related to research conception, experimental design, and interpretation of results. Some of these problems are common to other types of neurological study of behavioral and cognitive phenomena. Others are distinctive to the specifically religious domain of behavior, belief, and experience. This paper discusses eight of these problems and three key strategic…
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