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Counterintuitive Pseudoscience Propagates by Exploiting the Mind’s Communication Evaluation Mechanisms [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Epidemiological models of culture posit that the prevalence of a belief depends in part on the fit between that belief and intuitions generated by the mind’s reliably developing architecture.
Spencer Mermelstein, Tamsin C. German
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'It's like these scientists own the rains': indigenous knowledge, disaster warnings, and the politics of legitimacy in Malawi. [PDF]
DisastersAbstract This study examines the declining use of indigenous knowledge (IK) in early warning systems for climate‐related disasters in Malawi, drawing on qualitative data from four disaster‐prone districts and national‐level institutions. While IK is frequently referenced in policy discourse and programmatic frameworks, its practical integration into ...
Kita SM.
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Anchored and Propagated Updating Within Pseudoscientific Belief Systems. [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad SciBelief revision in pseudoscience reflects structured interactions between prior convictions and social information. Using a U.S. representative sample and computational modeling, we found that the effects of normative feedback spread across correlated beliefs but remain constrained by anchoring to initial views.
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Sociologie Românească, 2021 Confidence in astrology remains a visible phenomenon in contemporary society, and this is a constant topic of academic interest. A survey based on 512 valid questionnaires were obtained from a non-probability sample of university students from Bucharest,
Dragoș Obreja
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Alles Schicksal? Der Himmel als astrologische Auskunftei im Luthertum der Frühen Neuzeit [PDF]
Религия, церковь, общество, 2015 The article “All is Fortune? The sky as an astrology agency in the early modern time lutheranism” deals with attitude to astrology as part of the Lutheran intellectual culture of the 16–17th centuries.
Walter Sparn
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Astronomy and Calendrical Science in Early Mikkyō in Japan: Challenges and Adaptations
Religions, 2022 This study examines the use, adaptation, modification and omission of astronomical and calendrical elements in early Japanese Mikkyō (ninth century) in large part from the perspective of exact sciences.
Jeffrey Kotyk
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Astrologers and the Hungarian State Security Agency
The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture, 2023 The history of astrology in twentieth-century Hungary has not yet been a subject of research. Consequently, the attitude of Hungarian state security agency towards astrologers and astrology during the
Márton Veszprémy
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Jurnal Ushuluddin, 2022 The Quran's concern for the natural order is evident through its verses. By studying verses about nature, humans can increase knowledge and include science in analyzing the content of the Quran, as the Ilmi interpretation issued by the Ministry of ...
Laili Nur Hidayah, Salamah Noorhidayati
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Una giustificazione cristiana dell'astrologia. Esseri umani e corpi celesti nel Cause et cure
I Quaderni del MAES, 2023 In the Middle Ages, authoritative voices of Christianity condemn astrology as a kind of idolatry that denies free will. This is the reason why, since the 12th century, the revival of interest in astrology led some thinkers to prove its compatibility with
Giulia Guidara
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Sapiens Dominabitur Astris: A Diachronic Survey of a Ubiquitous Astrological Phrase
Humanities, 2021 From the late thirteenth through late seventeenth centuries, a single three-word Latin phrase—sapiens dominabitur astris, or “the wise man will be master of the stars”—proliferated in astrological, theological, philosophical, and literary texts.
Justin Niermeier-Dohoney
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