{"id":10297,"date":"2025-11-16T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10297"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:18","slug":"another-missing-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10297","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER MISSING CLASS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s another class that I think should be required for every seminary student: Basic Psychology and Behavioral Science.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think a lot of burn out, stress, and conflict in the life of a pastor could be stopped in its tracks by familiarity with the realities of:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Confirmation Bias<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Cognitive Dissonance<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Framing<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Habit Formation<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Logical Fallacies<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Reciprocation<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Social Proof<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The Dunning-Krueger Effect<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Etc.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The class would be an easy sell because this stuff is flat-out fascinating.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plus, it could all be incredibly useful for the &#8220;marketing&#8221; aspect of church life.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There would be plenty of real-world case studies to look at and it would be fun to find examples of all the various human quirks of thought and emotion in the Scriptures.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once you are familiar with the concepts, you see them illustrated left and right throughout the Bible.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another class that I think should be required for every seminary student: Basic Psychology and Behavioral Science.\u00a0 I think a lot of burn out, stress, and conflict in the life of a pastor could be stopped in its tracks by familiarity with the realities of: The class would be an easy sell because this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,49,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavioral-science","category-seminary","category-what-pastors-should-know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10298,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10297\/revisions\/10298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}