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Folk Beliefs of Cultural Changes in China [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 For the last several decades, Chinese society has experienced transformative changes. How are these changes understood among Chinese people? To examine this question, Part 1 in this research solicited folk beliefs of cultural change from a group of ...
Yi eXu +2 more
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Zeitschrift für die Welt der Türken, 2011 Folk beliefs, transmitted from generation to generation since the transfer from pre-writing and not included in any divine religion, but his side continued vitality of beliefs. Folk beliefs that have traditional as well as the local folk beliefs, include
Mustafa SEVER
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Empirical evidence regarding the folk psychological concept of belief [PDF]
, 1994 This paper presents empirical evidence regarding the nature of our commonsense concept of belief. The findings have significant bearing upon claims made by authors concerned with the Folk Psychology Debate - in particular, they challenge Stephen Stich's (
Hewson, Claire, Hcwson, Claire
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Folk-economic beliefs: An evolutionary cognitive model [PDF]
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2017 Abstract The domain of “folk-economics” consists in explicit beliefs about the economy held by laypeople, untrained in economics, about such topics as, for example, the causes of the wealth of nations, the benefits or drawbacks of markets and international trade, the effects of regulation, the origins of inequality, the connection between work and ...
Pascal Boyer, Michael Bang Petersen
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O vilama u narodnim baladama
On the Fairies in Folk Ballads
Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2015 The paper examines variants of southern Slavic folk ballads and ballad songs about fairies. Analyzing the context of folk belief and notions about fairies, the author reveals their mythical and psychological characteristics, as well as thematical ...
Dejan Ajdačić
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The Mickey Mouse problem: Distinguishing religious and fictional counterintuitive agents.
PLoS ONE, 2019 The Mickey Mouse problem refers to the difficulty in predicting which supernatural agents are capable of eliciting belief and religious devotion. We approached the problem directly by asking participants to invent a "religious" or a "fictional" agent ...
Thomas Swan, Jamin Halberstadt
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Eesti- ja Liivimaa libahundipärimus rahvapärase ontoloogia muutumise peegeldajana [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2021 The article gives a short overview of the Estonian werewolf tradition in the 16th and 17th centuries and a glimpse into the 19th–20th-century werewolf beliefs. The image of werewolf of the earlier and later periods is compared.
Merili Metsvahi
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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2015 For a long time, Hungarian scholars debated the origin and structure of Hungarian folk religion and folk beliefs. This article considers the relevance of shamanism to Hungarian folk belief, especially the complex surrounding the táltos.
László Kürti
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Vaimud, tulnukad ja Slenderman: üleloomulikud kogemused tänapäeva õpilaspärimuses [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2019 The article concentrates on mapping continuities and changes in the contemporary Estonian school lore about experiences with supernatural beings: main characters, fears, and emotions connected with such supernatural beliefs as well as supernatural ...
Reet Hiiemäe
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Empathy predicts false belief reasoning ability: Evidence from the N400 [PDF]
, 2014 Interpreting others’ actions relies on an understanding of their current mental state. Emerging research has begun to identify a number of factors that give rise to individual differences in this ability.
Cane, JE +11 more
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