Invisible Forces and Powerful Beliefs: Gravity, Gods, and Minds

5. Psychosomatic relations: from superstition to mortality^*

^* The lead author is Gary G. Berntson, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Pediatrics, and a member of the Neurosciences Graduate Faculty at the Ohio State University. He is a cofounder (with John Cacioppo) of the field of social neuroscience, a coeditor of the Handbook of Psychophysiology and the Handbook of Neuroscience for the Behavioral Sciences, and the President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Berntson’s research focuses on the evolutionary development of the neuraxis, with special regard to levels of organization in neurobehavioral systems, affective ...