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Steven Sherman

Regent University
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States of America
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    Revitalizing theological epistemology: holistic evangelical approaches to the knowledge of God
    James Clarke & Co.. 2010.
    This book is about contemporary evangelical approaches to the knowledge of God, considering--and suggesting--ways Christian philosophers and theologians envision and make use of theological knowledge in the postmodern context.
    Philosophy of ReligionReligious Experience
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    Motivated reasoning in the prediction of sports outcomes and the belief in the “hot hand”
    with João P. N. Braga, André Mata, and Mário B. Ferreira
    Cognition and Emotion 31 (8): 1571-1580. 2017.
    The present paper explores the role of motivation to observe a certain outcome in people’s predictions, causal attributions, and beliefs about a streak of binary outcomes. In two studies we found that positive streaks lead participants to predict the streak’s continuation, but negative streaks lead to predictions of its end. More importantly, these wishful predictions are supported by strategic attributions and beliefs about how and why a streak might unfold. Results suggest that the effect of m…Read more
    Emotion and Consciousness in Psychology