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Journal of Personality, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Nursery rhymes, which are rich in literary devices, benefit children's language learning. Less is known about the influence that nursery rhymes' messages may have on children's development. We focused on “Monday's Child,” a popular nursery rhyme that alleges children's day of the week of birth forecasts their differences in ...
Emily Wood +8 more
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Kentron, 2012 Berossos of Babylon wrote a piece of work in Greek, dedicated to Antiochos I (281-261 BC) about the history and the culture of his country. The only knowledge we have of his work, entitled Babyloniaca, is to be found in quotations,
Christine Dumas-Reungoat
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Is Your Career Determined by the Stars? Western Zodiac Signs and Labor Market Outcomes in Germany
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An increasing share of people believes that zodiac signs predict life outcomes, like career trajectories, even though there is no scientific basis for this claim. Using German administrative data covering more than 11 million observations from 1 million individuals, we investigate whether Zodiac signs determine labor market outcomes.
Matthias Collischon, Florian Zimmermann
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The Standard Model: Alchemy and Astrology [PDF]
, 2006 An brief unconventional review of Standard Model physics, containing no plots.Comment: 12 pages, 0 figures, review talk from "Physics at LHC", Krakow, 3-8 July ...
Lykken, Joseph D.
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Never under Saturn: Girolamo Manfredi, physician and astrologer [PDF]
, 2010 Not ...
Azzolini, Monica
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Astrology as Sacred Ecological Knowledge in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition
Oriental StudiesIntroduction. The identification of specific responses generated by religious traditions to present-day global challenges actualizes the rethinking of astrology as a traditional understanding of the world structure and influence of natural forces on man ...
Yulia Yu. Erendzhenova
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Secrecy: An Epistemological Account
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although the ethical and political implications of secrecy are significant, I argue here that its fundamental nature is epistemological and that any account of its nature must be based on its epistemological profile. In particular, I propose examining secrecy within the framework of social and political epistemology, considering secrets as ...
Jesús Navarro
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Cosmologia e experiência em Portugal no século XVI [PDF]
Navigator, 2012 This article aims to raise a few preliminary questions about the role of cosmological theories in the context of Sixteenth Century Portuguese maritime expansion.
Pedro Campos Franke
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Introducing the modified paranormal belief scale: distinguishing between classic paranormal beliefs, religious paranormal beliefs and conventional religiosity among undergraduates in Northern Ireland and Wales [PDF]
, 2009 Previous empirical studies concerned with the association between paranormal beliefs and conventional religiosity have produced conflicting evidence. Drawing on Rice's (2003) distinction between classic paranormal beliefs and religious paranormal beliefs,
Francis, Leslie J. +2 more
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