Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, PhD

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Category: psychology

  • Are Paranormal Beliefs a Result of Lazy Thinking?

    Are Paranormal Beliefs a Result of Lazy Thinking?

    The following article originally appeared on my Psychology Today blog Mysteries of Consciousness on February 15, 2022. In their 2021 New York Times bestseller Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein remark that “belief in ghosts, astrology, and extrasensory perception” is associated with lower Cognitive Reflection Test scores, implying that belief in […]

    Sharon Rawlette

    February 20, 2022
    Parapsychology, psychology, Science
    analytic thinking, Cognitive Reflection Test, Daniel Kahneman, paranormal belief
  • Uncomfortable Coincidences

    Uncomfortable Coincidences

    Coincidences aren’t all fun and games. As psychiatrist and parapsychologist Jules Eisenbud was fond of reminding us, coincidences often reflect the aspects of our mental life that we are most anxious to hide. I discuss the usefulness of these “uncomfortable coincidences” in today’s post on PsychologyToday.com.

    Sharon Rawlette

    March 6, 2020
    coincidences, Parapsychology, psychology
    Jule Eisenbud, psychoanalysis, synchronicity
  • Can an Organ Transplant Alter Your Identity?

    Can an Organ Transplant Alter Your Identity?

    In 1988, Claire Sylvia received the first heart-lung transplant performed in New England. In the days and weeks following her surgery, she realized that she had some strange new cravings. For one thing, she found herself “dying for a beer,” even though she’d never liked beer before. She also began to add green peppers to […]

    Sharon Rawlette

    September 27, 2019
    consciousness, Parapsychology, psychology
    Claire Sylvia, organ transplants
  • On choosing happiness

    On choosing happiness

    Choosing happiness and choosing circumstances of ease and comfort are two very different things. Challenge is essential to human happiness. It is, in large part, why we chose this life to begin with. Photo by Jörg Peter

    Sharon Rawlette

    June 21, 2016
    psychology, Spirituality
    challenge, choices, happiness
  • Chasing Your Dream

    Chasing Your Dream

    My last post talked about longings that we can’t quite explain and thus often disregard as irrational and unimportant. This post is about an excellent tool to help us recover those crucial, disregarded desires: a 30-day guided journal called Chasing Your Dream. It so happens that one of the dreams that runs in my family is the dream […]

    Sharon Rawlette

    June 10, 2016
    Book Reviews, psychology, Spirituality, Writing
    books, dreams, goals, journaling
  • The boy who wanted to be a Jew

    The boy who wanted to be a Jew

    Julius Lester writes in his book Lovesong: Becoming a Jew that as a young black boy growing up in the American South his favorite piece to play on the piano was Kol Nidre, the song that opens the observance of the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur. “When I stop playing,” he writes, “there is a painful yearning in my stomach, […]

    Sharon Rawlette

    June 6, 2016
    Book Reviews, Language, psychology, Spirituality, Travel
    conversion, destiny, France, French, James Hillman, Judaism, memoir
  • You’re Not as Dumb as All That

    You’re Not as Dumb as All That

    Perhaps you’ve read about this experiment from the 1980s: Subjects were told, “Linda is thirty-one years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in antinuclear demonstrations.” Then they were asked to estimate which further statement […]

    Sharon Rawlette

    May 10, 2014
    Book Reviews, psychology
    Daniel Kahneman, economics, Gerd Gigerenzer, intelligence, risk, Risk Savvy
  • Contentment Is a Good Place to Start

    Contentment Is a Good Place to Start

    What would it take for you to be content? For a long time, I thought all I needed was a loving husband, a warm home, a bunch of animals, and a publication with my name on it. Then the day came when I had all those things, and I found myself wanting more. More animals. Bigger […]

    Sharon Rawlette

    April 30, 2014
    Daily Life, psychology, Spirituality
    achievement, Amish, contentment, happiness, satisfaction, simple life, Sue Bender
  • On Feeling Alone

    On Feeling Alone

    I don’t care how many friends you have or how many heart-to-heart talks you manage with your loved ones, I think we all have moments when we feel alone. Moments when we’re stuck inside an emotion that we don’t see any possibility of sharing. Or when we’re thinking thoughts we have no way to convey. These are […]

    Sharon Rawlette

    March 18, 2014
    psychology, Spirituality
    communion, fruits of the Spirit, loneliness, meaning of life, NDE, unity
  • The Invisibility of Evil

    The Invisibility of Evil

    “You will learn that when the truth isn’t pretty, expected, or delivered with a fair dose of charm, people will almost always put their faith in a lie.” So reads one of many chilling lines in H.G. Beverly‘s recently released memoir The Other Side of Charm, about her unwitting marriage to a sociopath. Before her marriage to […]

    Sharon Rawlette

    February 27, 2014
    Book Reviews, psychology, Spirituality
    books, divorce, domestic abuse, evil, H.G. Beverly, memoir, psychopaths, sociopaths, The Other Side of Charm
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Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, PhD

  • About
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    • Beyond Death
    • The Source and Significance of Coincidences
    • The Feeling of Value
    • The Supreme Victory of the Heart
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