We present here the most comprehensive analysis to date of neuroaesthetic processing by
reporting the results of voxel-based meta-analyses of 93 neuroimaging studies of positive …

Background How is happiness generated via brain function in lucky individuals who have
the good fortune to be happy? Conceptually, well-being or happiness has long been viewed …

Neuroscience has made astounding progress in the understanding of the brain. What
should we make of its claims to go beyond the brain and explain consciousness, behaviour …

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• The# 1 bestselling author of The Anxious Generation
and acclaimed social psychologist challenges conventional thinking about morality, politics …

People often discount evidence that contradicts their firmly held beliefs. However, little is
known about the neural mechanisms that govern this behavior. We used neuroimaging to …

New York Times bestselling author Sam Harris's first book, The End of Faith, ignited a
worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most …

" The most brilliant and lucid analysis of virtue and well-being in the entire literature of
positive psychology. For the reader who seeks to understand happiness, my advice is: Begin …

One of the well-documented concerns confronting scholarly discourse about meditation is
the plethora of semantic constructs and the lack of a unified definition and taxonomy. In …

Religion and spirituality have long been integral in the human experience. Fittingly, some of
psychology's early giants wrestled with the religious and spiritual impulse, such as …

We present the theory of predictive processing as a unifying framework to account for the
neurocognitive basis of religion and spirituality. Our model is substantiated by discussing …