Subfolder: T5_Applied_Specialized | Parent Section: T — Psychology & Social
Document Count: 14 | Last Updated: March 14, 2026
Category Tags: psychology-social, psychology, social, consciousness, art-culture, linguistics, neuroscience, religion

OVERVIEW

This subfolder contains 14 documents covering Applied Specialized within the Psychology & Social section. Topics include Sports Psychology and Performance, Psychology of Music, Embodied and Social Cognition, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Parapsychology and Anomalous Cognition and 9 more topics. Key themes span awe, mystical experience, meaning-making, screen time, social media, cyberbullying.

KEY POINTS

• T_5_01 — Sports psychology investigates the psychological factors that influence athletic performance, exercise behavior, and physical activity — applying principles from cognitive, social, and clinical…
• T_5_02 — Music psychology investigates how humans perceive, produce, respond emotionally to, and are transformed by music — drawing on cognitive psychology, auditory neuroscience, developmental psychology,…
• T_5_03 — Embodied cognition challenges the classical computational model of mind (cognition as abstract symbol manipulation, independent of the body) by proposing that cognitive processes are…
• T_5_04 — The psychology of religion investigates why humans believe in supernatural agents, how religious practices affect cognition and well-being, and what psychological functions religion serves.
• T_5_05 — Parapsychology is the scientific study of claimed anomalous psychological phenomena — particularly extrasensory perception (ESP) (telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition) and **psychokinesis…
• T_5_06 — Digital psychology examines how digital technologies — smartphones, social media, video games, internet use — affect cognition, emotion, social behavior, and mental health.
• T_5_07 — Sacred space — physical locations experienced as qualitatively distinct from ordinary space, charged with spiritual significance, numinous power, or transcendent meaning — is a **universal…
• T_5_08 — Awe — the emotion arising from encounters with vast, powerful, or complex phenomena that exceed one's current mental frameworks and demand cognitive accommodation (schema revision) — has…
• T_5_09 — Narrative psychology — the study of how humans make sense of their lives, construct identity, and organize experience through storytelling — emerged as a distinct field in the 1980s–1990s…
• T_5_10 — The psychology of money explores how cognitive biases, emotional responses, social pressures, and personality traits systematically distort financial decision-making — departing dramatically from…
• T_5_11 — Self-deception — the process by which individuals maintain beliefs, self-images, or narratives that are contradicted by available evidence, often without conscious awareness of doing so — sits at…
• T_5_12 — Media psychology — the study of how media (television, film, video games, social media, smartphones) affect cognition, emotion, behavior, and well-being — has become one of the most publicly…
• T_5_13 — Psycholinguistics — the scientific study of the cognitive processes underlying language comprehension, production, and acquisition — investigates how the mind/brain processes the ~1 billion words…
• T_5_14 — Peak experiences — moments of ecstatic joy, profound meaning, ego-dissolution, and felt unity with the world — were identified by Abraham Maslow (1964) as among the most important experiences…

KEY THEMES & KEYWORDS

awe, mystical experience, meaning-making, screen time, social media, cyberbullying, fomo, attention, dopamine, digital well-being, twenge, sublime, haidt, transcendence, sports psychology

DOCUMENT INDEX

WHAT TO EXPECT

Documents in this subfolder follow the project's 4-tier evidence system:

• Tier 1 (Verified): Peer-reviewed, archaeological record, primary texts
• Tier 2 (Credible): Academic, debated but supported by evidence
• Tier 3 (Speculative): Possible but unverified
• Tier 4 (Dubious): No credible source or contradicted by evidence

Tier distribution in this subfolder: 1: 1 docs, 1–2: 2 docs, 2: 7 docs, 2–3: 1 docs

Each document includes a Quick Summary, tiered claims with specific evidence,

counter-arguments, bibliography, and cross-references to related documents across the corpus.

Subfolder summary auto-generated from corpus analysis. Last Updated: March 14, 2026