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The hypnagogic state: A brief update
Journal of Sleep Research, Volume 32, Issue 1, February 2023., 2023 Summary The hypnagogic state refers to a transitional stage between wakefulness and sleep, in which sensory perceptions can be experienced. In this review, we compile and discuss the recent scientific literature on hypnagogia research regarding the future directions proposed by Schacter (1976; Psychological Bulletin, 83, 452).
Romain Ghibellini, Beat Meier
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Introducing the modified paranormal belief scale: distinguishing between classic paranormal beliefs, religious paranormal beliefs and conventional religiosity among undergraduates in Northern Ireland and Wales [PDF]
, 2009 Previous empirical studies concerned with the association between paranormal beliefs and conventional religiosity have produced conflicting evidence. Drawing on Rice's (2003) distinction between classic paranormal beliefs and religious paranormal beliefs,
Williams, Emyr +5 more
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People and Nature, Volume 4, Issue 4, Page 1007-1019, August 2022., 2022 Abstract Trade of wildlife for use in traditional medicines, rituals, magical spells and cultural practices occurs globally and has been studied mostly in Africa and Asia. The grey slender loris Loris lydekkerianus is used for both medicinal and ritual purposes, but little information is available on how the user is meant to extract their medicinal ...
Smitha D. Gnanaolivu +6 more
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Creatio Fantastica, 2018 Non-existent before the late 1980s, in recent years urban fantasy / paranormal romance has become the prevailing form of the monstrous Gothic in popular culture.
Leigh M. McLennon
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Book genre and author gender: Romance>Paranormal‐Romance to Autobiography>Memoir [PDF]
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2016 Although gender differences are known to exist in the publishing industry and in reader preferences, there is little public systematic data about them. This article uses evidence from the book‐based social website Goodreads to provide a large scale analysis of 50 major English book genres based on author genders.
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Developmental Psychobiology, Volume 64, Issue 3, April 2022., 2022 Abstract Healthy interaction between parent and child is foundational for the child's socioemotional development. Recently, an innovative paradigm shift in electroencephalography (EEG) research has enabled the simultaneous measurement of neural activity in caregiver and child.
Elise Turk +4 more
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Personality and paranormal belief: a study among adolescents [PDF]
, 2007 A sample of 279 13- to 16-year-old adolescents completed the Short-form Revised Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (JEPQR-S) and a six-item Index of Paranormal Belief.
Robbins, Mandy +2 more
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Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, Volume 18, Issue 1, Page 56-67, January 2021., 2021 Abstract The Verifiability Approach (VA), a lie detection method, postulates that genuine statements contain more verifiable information, whereas fabricated reports include more non‐verifiable details. We investigated whether participants low (n = 19), medium (n = 23) and high (n = 26) on fantasy proneness differ in the (non)verifiability of their ...
Irena Boskovic +2 more
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Literatura Niewidocznego — wizje i rewizje urban fantasy
Creatio Fantastica, 2018 A discussion Literature of the Unseen—Visions and (Re)visions of Urban Fantasy collects theoretical reflections upon the subgenres of urban fantasy and paranormal romance, along with a brief commentary on the body of text representative for both ...
Stefan Ekman +4 more
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Creatio Fantastica, 2018 Reviewed book: Oblicza wampiryzmu, ed. Anna Depta, Szymon Cieśliński i Michał Wolski Wrocław: Stowarzyszenie Badaczy Literatury i Kultury Popularnej „Trickster” 2018, ISBN 978-83-64863-12 ...
Barbara Szymczak-Maciejczyk
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