{"id":5,"date":"2016-09-30T16:03:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barneysplace.net\/site\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2025-09-03T13:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:59:04","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/barneysplace.net\/site\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Barney’s Place<\/em> — a website devoted to exploring and refining a new approach to critical belief analysis.<\/p>\n

I’m Barnet Feingold, a retired clinical psychologist. I earned my PhD at Penn State in 1977. My dissertation explored the questions, “What justifies classifying a belief as ‘superstitious’?” and “Why do people create and cling to superstitious beliefs?” Since then, I’ve devoted much of my personal and professional life to exploring questions like, “What distinguishes helpful beliefs from harmful ones?”, “What leads people to commit themselves to beliefs that are self-destructive or damaging to others?” and “How can people become more objective about the beliefs that guide them?” I’ll be sharing my answers to these questions and others in the articles you’ll find here.<\/p>\n

Articles 1 – 6 will give you a sense of my approach to belief analysis.\u00a0 However, these articles provide only a general orientation to the conception that undergirds the rigorous, detailed analytical techniques described in the remaining articles.<\/p>\n

I welcome critical analysis of everything I believe, including my approach to critical belief analysis, and look forward to passionate and challenging discussions of the ideas these articles (and others) provoke. Feel free to post comments on this website or to write to me at barnet.feingold@hotmail.com.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

I look forward to hearing your thoughts, and, if you choose to enroll in one of the courses I hope to teach on this topic,\u00a0 to meeting you.<\/p>\n

download<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Barney’s Place — a website devoted to exploring and refining a new approach to critical belief analysis. I’m Barnet Feingold, a retired clinical psychologist. I earned my PhD at Penn State in 1977. My dissertation explored the questions, “What justifies classifying a belief as ‘superstitious’?” and “Why do people create and cling to … Continue reading “Welcome”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/barneysplace.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/barneysplace.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/barneysplace.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barneysplace.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barneysplace.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/barneysplace.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"http:\/\/barneysplace.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/barneysplace.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}