Peter Hampson

• University of Oxford

A spectre is haunting Europe and the rest of our planet-the spectre of Transhumanism. Its priests and familiars inhabit some of our most prominent research laboratories, universities, major corporations and political institutions. Its books decorate our major bookstores and airport shops. Its products and totemic objects are already available on ou...

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In the spirit of continuing an interrupted conversation with Liz Dunne, the current state of dialogue between psychology and religion is reviewed. Following a brief overview of the psychology of religion, the possibilities for mutually enriching and hospitable engagement between psychology and Christian theology are examined. Theology, with its lon...

The relationship between integration and elaboration and consciousness in memory was investigated using the digit recall/distractor method of maintenance rehearsal. Subjects learned words either intentionally or incidentally while retaining three two-digit numbers. List items were rehearsed one, three, or six times. Subjects were given an immediate...

Radical Orthodoxy is a vibrant theological response to postmodernism which has much to offer to Christian psychology in particular and to dialogue between theology and secularity in general. In this, the first of two Edification interviews with leading members of the Radical Orthodox group at the University of Nottingham UK, John Milbank (JM) and S...

In this, the second of two Edification interviews with leading members of the Radical Orthodoxy group at the Uni-versity of Nottingham UK, Conor Cunningham (CC) and Aaron Riches (AR) offer a robust and lively Radical Orthodoxy approach to ontological naturalism and Christology and begin to explore their relevance and challenge for secular and Chris...

Since the failure to remember the name of a person to whom one has been introduced can be embarrassing, methods of improving the recall of names to faces are desirable. As a means of learning names Lorayne (1958) suggests a mnemonic technique the effectiveness of which was tested in the present experiment. Lorayne's method involves first converting...

The aim of this essay is to bring the philosophical theology of St Augustine, and in particular his anthropology, into fuller dialogue with contemporary psychology, and to examine how psychology and theology might benefit from such an engagement. A further aim is to show that intra-psychic accounts of Augustine's Confessions are insufficient on cul...

To understand better the religious person and religious people, psychology alone is insufficient. Multi-disciplinary, interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary approaches are needed too. Encouraged by recent efforts which bring psychology and theology into fuller relationality, we examine further interactions between the two intellectual traditions,...

This essay extends arguments that cultural psychology is useful for dialogue with Christian theology by indicating its relevance for theologies of consciousness. Donald's cultural account is outlined, followed by Davies's theological treatment of compassionate consciousness. Interactions are considered between the two approaches, which are shown to...

Cultural psychology stresses the importance of the historical and socio-cultural in the formation of the self, and, in its more sophisticated versions, acknowledges the importance of embodiment, emotions and intra-psychic factors too, making it a promising dialogue partner for theology. Following a brief summary of bridging issues between psycholog...

Connectionist networks may provide useful models of stimulus equivalence and transfer of function phenomena. Such models have been applied to a range of behavioral tasks and have demonstrated transfers of function via equivalence relations following appropriate training, with networks accurately simulating the behavior of human subjects. In the cur...

Connectionist models have been developed that can simulate some of the extended histories of reinforcement that are thought to be largely responsible for complex human functioning. In particular, a number of models have successfully simulated equivalence-class formation and other forms of arbitrarily applicable relational responding. A recent examp...

A neurologically plausible model of the auditory perception of musical sequences is proposed, and some implications are derived for auditory imagery. In line with a cognitive neuroscience approach, a componential analysis of the major functions required of auditory perception and imagery for musical sequences is first carried out, and a minimal mod...

Eight college students were trained in a sequential response to two nonsense syllable pairs B1–B2 and B2–B3. They were then tested to determine whether an untrained, novel three-response sequence emerged as a result of the spontaneous combination of the two explicitly trained two-response sequences (i.e., B1–B2 + B2–B3 becomes B1–B2–B3). All subjec...

Recent developments in behavior analysis and cognitive science can be used to improve the uneasy relationship between these two approaches to psychological inquiry. Stimulus equivalence phenomena demonstrate the power of behavior analytic procedures to induce complex generative performances that are typically studied by cognitive scientists, while...

A framework for studying individual variation in tactile map reading is offered, and a set of research guidelines suggested. Tactile map reading may be viewed as a many-leveled skill or set of skills, and individual differences are best understood from an information processing rather than a psychometric perspective. Possible kinds of individual va...

This study is designed to show that subject are able to assess the processing demands made by a series of orienting tasks. With the help of 6 psychology majors, 56 orienting questions were generated which could be applied to a black and white photograph of a human face. Using a systematic ranking and reduction procedure, 3 groups of 12 undergraduat...

Compared 8 congenitally blind, 8 sighted, and 8 blindfolded sighted female school students (mean age 16 yrs) using a selective interference technique. Ss categorized the words of sentences and the corners of figures while responding either spatially (by typing), verbally, or while tapping. Spatial responding slowed RTs more than tapping or verbal r...