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Interrelations of paranormal and pseudoscientific beliefs and critical thinking disposition among undergraduate medical students of RSU [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2020 Magical and paranormal beliefs have been found in all cultures and strata of society, including medical university students. Critical thinking skills and dispositions are generally considered desirable outcomes of the educational process.
Utinans Arturs +3 more
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Fears as a determinant of “magic thinking” in adolescents
Вестник Мининского университета, 2023 Introduction. Currently, the problem of magical thinking is considered as an insufficiently studied problem, and the available studies are contradictory: the theoretical and methodological base has not been fully developed and diagnostic methods have ...
Yu. N. Farkhutdinova
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European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction The uncertainty of contemporary social contexts fosters suspiciousness and anaclitic anxieties. In the context of interpersonal relationships this manifests in cognitive distortions and magical thinking, specially in the vulnerable ...
E. Sokolova, K. Andreyuk, A. Ryzhov
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Faith and Philosophy, 2020 According to theists, God is an immaterial thinking being. The main question of this article is whether theism supports the view that we too are immaterial thinking beings. I shall argue in the negative. Along the way, I will also explore some implications in the philosophy of mind following from the observation that, on theism, God’s mentality is in a
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The renaissance of magical thinking, a challenge for bioethics
Bioethics Update, 2022 In industrialized countries, the common mindset pivots around personal performance. People identify their worth with their performance, consequently they identify their duty with their role.
Carlo Bellieni
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Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2021 Unidentified Flying Objects (also called UFO) are usually related to the magical beliefs that accept the existence of extraterrestrial beings and alien abductions.
Álex Escolà-Gascón +2 more
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Studia Psychologica, 2023 We examined how scientific literacy (scientific reasoning, scientific knowledge, and trust in science), analytical thinking and the importance of epistemic rationality relate to the belief in the efficacy of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM ...
Viktória Sunyik, Vladimíra Čavojová
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Magical thinking as a socio-psychological phenomenon of spiritual life in the early 21st century [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2023 The paper considers the phenomenon of magical thinking as a cognitive-emotional distortion of a person’s perception of objective reality from the standpoint of the doctrine of esotericism.
Serdyuk E.G.
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A Positive Side to Apophaticism: Prolegomena
Verbum Vitae, 2023 The article synthetically presents positive aspects of apophaticism. It discusses its apologetic role, its importance in defending against magical thinking, its focus on experience, its openness to pluralism, and its inspirational role for a variety of ...
Marek Gilski
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The Belief in Magic in the Age of Science
SAGE Open, 2014 The widely spread view on magical beliefs in modern industrial cultures contends that magical beliefs are a bunch of curious phenomena that persist today as an unnecessary addition to a much more important set of rational beliefs.
Eugene Subbotsky
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