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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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Folk Core Beliefs about Color [PDF]

Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2019
Johnston famously argued that the colors are, more or less inclusively speaking, dispositions to cause color experiences by arguing that this view best accommodates his five proposed core beliefs about color. Since then, Campbell, Kalderon, Gert, Benbaji, and others, have all engaged with at least some of Johnston’s proposed core beliefs in one way or ...
Roberts, Pendaran, Schmidtke, Kelly
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Malaysian Chinese folk beliefs on Facebook based on LDA topic modelling

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
In the digital age, as social media evolves into a new and significant centre for the dissemination of Chinese folk beliefs, the Malaysian Chinese have actively shared information about these folk beliefs on their social media platforms.
Ning Hu, Kee Chye Ho, Pik Shy Fan
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Folk religion as the “life-world”: revival of folk beliefs and renewal of religious categorization in contemporary China

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Religious studies in the past paid more attention to the changes of institutional religion than to the status characteristic of folk beliefs.
Shuai Chi, Chao Liu
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Fischer's Plants in folk beliefs and customs: a previously unknown contribution to the ethnobotany of the Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian borderland. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2017
BackgroundHistorical ethnobotanical studies are useful starting points for further diachronic analysis. The aim of this contribution is to present archival data from the Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian borderland, which were collected by Adam Fischer, a ...
Kujawska M, Klepacki P, Łuczaj Ł.
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Traditional Ukrainian Folk Beliefs about Death and the Afterlife [PDF]

, 2011
In contemporary Ukraine, there exist various memorials that mark places of tragic death. These can be found on any road in large numbers. They can also be found elsewhere, including in city centers.
Kukharenko, Svitlana
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Folk beliefs about genetic variation predict avoidance of biracial individuals. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2015
People give widely varying estimates for the amount of genetic overlap that exists between humans. While some laypeople believe that humans are highly genetically similar to one another, others believe that humans share very little genetic overlap. These
Kang SK, Plaks JE, Remedios JD.
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Fragmented and conflicted: folk beliefs about vision

Synthese, 2023
Many philosophical debates take for granted that there is such a thing as ‘the’ common-sense conception of the phenomenon of interest. Debates about the nature of perception tend to take for granted that there is a single, coherent common-sense ...
E. Fischer, Keith Allen, P. Engelhardt
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The influence of taoism on the folk beliefs of the vietnamese

The Russian Journal of Vietnamese Studies, 2022
The traditional culture of Vietnam, in addition to typical indigenous folk beliefs, also includes three systems of ideas imported from outside Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. In those three ideological systems, Buddhism and Confucianism are very easy
Hong Van Vu
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Folk Customs And Beliefs In Kosovo And Metohija Between The Two World Wars

Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2023
The geographical region of Kosovo and Metohija in the period between the two world wars was characterised by traditional societies and a large number of folk customs and beliefs. In my paper, I will deal with the customs and beliefs that marked the daily
Božica Slavković Mirić
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