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Arthur Conan Doyle’s Stories of Gothic Spiritualism and/as Feminist Counter-Narratives
HumanitiesArthur Conan Doyle’s most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, is a determined rationalist, yet Doyle was himself a convert to spiritualism. Doyle’s interest in spiritualism informs four, somewhat neglected Gothic tales written during the last decades of ...
Adrian Tait
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Psychophysiology, Volume 62, Issue 11, November 2025.ABSTRACT Expectancy theory of hypnosis posits that any procedure can serve as a hypnotic induction provided it is labeled as “hypnosis”. The present study explored this hypothesis by contrasting the effects of two conventional and two unconventional (placebo) hypnotic inductions on hypnotic experiences and electrophysiological correlates.
Zoltan Kekecs +8 more
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Médecine, expertise et genre : l’« affaire Castellan »
Histoire, Médecine et Santé, 2013 In 1784 and again in 1837, established Medicine excluded both animal magnetism (mesmerism) and artificial somnambulism (hypnosis) from its common practice.
Nicole Edelman
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[3]Radialene Fluorophores with pH‐Switchable Emission and Stable Absorption Maxima
European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Volume 28, Issue 33, September 20, 2025.The synthesis and characterization of the first push–pull quino [3]radialene fluorophore are reported, integrating a bis(dicyanomethylene)‐[3]radialene acceptor with a benzimidazole donor. It exhibits minimal solvatochromism, and vibronic coupling of the [3]radialene motif dominates the emission properties.
Jan P. Soyka +8 more
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Neither Genius nor Fudge: Edgar Allan Poe and Eureka [PDF]
452ºF, 2009 "Eureka" (1848) has been taken at face value as an expanded version of a lecture on cosmology that Poe gave earlier the same year. However, its seriousness as a work of science should be questioned.
Stott, G. St. John
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Gra z romantycznym afektem w Mariaszu Artura Daniela Liskowackiego
Przestrzenie Teorii, 2017 The aim of the article is to show the connection between affection theory and romantic concepts of emotions (mesmerism and melancholy) in Artur Daniel Liskowacki’s 2007 novel Mariasz.
Patrycja Malicka
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Therapeutic aQompaniments: Walking together in hypnotherapy—and ethnography
Ethos, Volume 53, Issue 3, September 2025.Abstract Drawing on ethnographic data collected over 16 months of fieldwork with Indonesian hypnotherapists, this article investigates the suitability of different relationalities for providing therapeutic care. Clinical literature often advocates the merits of self‐hypnosis over hetero‐hypnosis, while anthropologists express skepticism regarding ...
Nicholas J. Long
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Body, Space, and Sensations in Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Predicament”
Anafora, 2019 This paper aims to examine the sensationalism of Blackwood’s Magazine as evident in Poe’s tale “A Predicament” and how Poe disengages from the tradition of Blackwoods. On the one hand, Poe conflates Psyche Zenobia’s adventure into a Gothic Cathedral with
Justine Shu-ting Kao
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Evaluative Conditioning has a Vexing Demand Problem
Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Volume 19, Issue 8, August 2025.ABSTRACT Attitude research has long been concerned with the potential influence of demand characteristics in evaluative conditioning effects. Here, we argue that this concern remains justified and cannot be readily dismissed. This is supported by two observations.
O. Corneille, A. Gast, P. Lush, C. Stahl
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Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund, 2016 The use of the placebo and discussions on the power of the imagination in 19th century medicine will be investigated in this article. The 19th century is interesting since early discussions can be found on whether the power of the imagination and the ...
Lars Ole Andersen
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