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Association, A. P. (2013). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, Virginia, United States of America: American Psychiatric Association Publishing. Retrieved June 10, 2018, from www.PsychiatryOnline.Org

This source contains an entire legend, or compendium of diagnostic criterion for the diagnosing and prognoses-hypothesizing of complex neurological diseases, cognitive dysfunctions, and personality disorders (pathways, pathology and the varying degrees of severity, concerning neuropsychological diseases and disorders.  This, even along, evidences nearly every idea presented, within the entirety of this website, and when used in-tandem with academic journals, with peer-reviewed work and experimental accounts, makes for definitive, infallible, scientific premise, foundation and/or consensus.  

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Day, J. M. (2010, December). Religion, Spirituality, and Positive Psychology in Adulthood: A Developmental View. Journal of Adult Development, 17(4), 215-230. doi:edsgcl.240590857

This source addresses the psychological, and psychologically-social affluences religious and dogmatic spiritualism and its varied belief-systems have upon developing minds (where, to the best of our knowledge now, is within a perpetual state of development until the age of twenty-six 26, at least on average, per normative biological individuation and functionality), its roles regarding coping mechanisms, including coping with sickness, illness, psychological distress, loss, death, suffering and injustice, and with reverence as to the positive and negative aspects to these belief-systems.

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Newberg, A. B. (2014, June 14). Multidisciplinary directions for studying the brain and religious phenomena. Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 1(2), 106-108. doi:10.1037/scp0000019

This source, as the preceding title infers, encompasses an array of scientific disciplines that are all dedicated to the study of religion, and its affects biologically, psychologically, socially, cognitively, anthropologically, ethically, ethnically and biochemically, as would concern things such as entrainment, neurotransmissions, functions and systemic interactions causal at the behest of spiritualism, endocrinological, epigenetic and psychophysiological modes of discipline; in such, studious addressing of varied observations, using functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI, sleep-studies, psychological assessing, that include the questions I had posited earlier on, with inferential substantiation by peer-review, and academicians, and medical professionals from all scientific disciplines, that by this nature, support any conclusions I may make.

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Rafetseder, E., & Perner, J. (2018, August 18). Belief and counterfactuality: A teleological theory of belief attribution. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 226(2)(Theory of Mind Across the Lifespan), 110-121. doi:10.1027/2151-2604/a000327

This source, considers a series of studies, of laboratorial and statistical significance, conducted under strict environments, scientifically.  This collection of research embodies psychophysiologically, how belief and factuality seem contradict each other.  How religious belief is so often related, correlatively, to what is known as ‘willful ignorance.,’ in that a person will blindly follow an unfalsifiable, unverifiable, set of claims and assertions, allegedly produced by divine authority(s), that primarily consist of ancient texts and manuscripts, that are at most – historically validated pieces of artistry, and in antithesis, reject substantiated scientific truths, such as a spherical earth, an expanding universe, an interconnected lifeforce via evolution, natural selection and adaptation, in exchange for the acceptance of archaic, often brutal, unethical and morose systems of spiritual conceptuality.  This details accounts in laboratorial settings, the interviewing and refuting of religious persons expressing their innermost, innately-understood belief systems, purporting these as absolute truths.