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Paranormal Beliefs in Canada

Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT There has been no nationally representative examination of paranormal beliefs in Canada for over two decades, even though Canada has undergone major social shifts in that time, such as greater secularization, which could affect the prevalence of paranormal beliefs.
Tony Silva, Emily Huddart
wiley   +1 more source

Mental Health Nurses' Perceived Appropriateness of Coercive Measures and Security Technologies in Psychiatric Settings: A National Cross‐Sectional Study

Journal of Nursing Scholarship, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Psychiatric settings are high‐risk environments for violence. Coercive measures (CMs) and security technologies (STs) can be used to ensure safety. However, limited evidence exists on how Italian mental health nurses (MHNs) perceive the appropriateness of such practices and the influencing factors.
Giuliano Anastasi, Roberto Latina, Yari Longobucco, Alessandro Stievano, Stefano Bambi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Abortion, incommunicability, and semiotic labor: Policing disciplinary boundaries through language ideological work among emergency nurses in a post‐Roe environment

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Nurses working in emergency departments in the United States are increasingly managing obstetric emergencies, yet they receive no guidance from hospital administrators about how to adapt this care to the abortion bans that have recently become law in many states.
Lynnette Arnold, Hannah Noblewolf, Lisa Wolf   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Imitation of Location Choices for Foreign Investments: The Role of Subnational Foreign Locations' Cultural Tightness

Journal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 998-1031, May 2026.
Abstract Firms are known to commonly imitate peers' foreign investment location choices. We shed further light on this phenomenon by exploring the role of foreign locations' cultural tightness, which refers to the prevalence of social norms in a location and the tolerance for deviance from them.
Arjen H. L. Slangen, Riccardo Valboni, Nazareno Braito, Jonas Puck   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Has Political Violence Affected Americans’ Commitment to Democratic Participation? The Mitigating Role of Neighborhood Social Cohesion

Social Science Quarterly, Volume 107, Issue 3, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Objective This study examines whether political violence affects Americans’ commitment to democratic participation. It theorizes that political violence undermines citizens’ commitment to core democratic behaviors. However, neighborhood social cohesion mitigates the effect of political violence on reduced democratic participation.
James A. Piazza
wiley   +1 more source

God and the Gaps

, 2013
Excerpt: Most often the story is told like this: There is some feature of the world that science is at a loss to explain. Christians rush to claim that this feature can only be explained by God.
McCullough, Ross W.
core  

Remembering Marx's Secularism [PDF]

, 2020
Blankholm, Joseph
core  

Atheism

Faith and Philosophy, 1993
openaire   +1 more source

A cross-national analysis of demographic variation in belief in God, gods, or spiritual forces in 22 countries. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Aglozo EY, Johnson KA, Case B, Padgett RN, Johnson BR, VanderWeele TJ.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Helpful assistant or fruitful facilitator? Investigating how personas affect language model behavior. [PDF]

PLoS One
Luz de Araujo PH, Roth B.
europepmc   +1 more source