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When Wuxia Met Romance: The Pleasures and Politics of Transculturalism in Sherry Thomas’s My Beautiful Enemy

Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 2020
A case study of Sherry Thomas’s Qing-era My Beautiful Enemy (and its prequel, The Hidden Blade) allows for a fruitful discussion of changing representations of diversity in romance fiction and its appeal to readers.
Jayashree Kamblé
doaj  

From Policy to Psychology: Analysing Evaluations of Journal Credibility Through Institutional and Cognitive Lenses

Learned Publishing, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This study investigated how Croatian scholars in the social sciences and humanities assess the credibility of academic journals, focusing on the influence of journal characteristics, academic discipline, rank, and cognitive style. Using a mixed‐method design with 1307 participants, we manipulated information about three journal characteristics
Nikolina Peša Pavlović, Franjo Pehar, Pavle Valerjev   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

\u3cem\u3eBook Review\u3c/em\u3e “Crawford, Joseph. The Twilight of the Gothic: Vampire Fiction and the Rise of Paranormal Romance 1991-2012” [PDF]

, 2016
This is a book review for The Twilight of the Gothic? Vampire Fiction and the Rise of the Paranormal Romance by Joseph Crawford. Over the last few years, we have witnessed the publication of masses of books on the Twilight Saga, some addressed to the ...
Ramos-Garcia, Maria T.
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Spiritual and religious information experiences: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 40-61, January 2026.
Abstract This chapter examines the contours of the religious and spiritual information experiences subfield through a review and content analysis of selected contributions from the past two decades in both information science and related fields. The research question that guides this review is: How have spirituality and religion been conceptualized in ...
Nadia Caidi, Pranay Nangia, Hugh Samson, Cansu Ekmekcioglu, Michael Olsson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Is Known About Maladaptive Daydreaming? A Scoping Review

Clinical Psychology &Psychotherapy, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 1-18, July/August 2025.
ABSTRACT Maladaptive daydreaming (MD) is a dysfunctional coping mechanism that involves excessive, uncontrollable daydreaming. MD accounts for severe impairment in life functioning and is comorbid with several psychopathological disorders, sharing common maladaptive features such as compulsion and emotional dysregulation.
Shivani Atul Mansuklal, Patrícia M. Pascoal, Eli Somer, Ivanilda B. Costa, Gerhard Andersson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Utopia paranormal — o legado de Ahmad Khalid Tawfiq

Malala
O escritor egípcio Ahmad Khalid Tawfiq (1962-2018) foi um dos pioneiros na literatura de língua árabe a explorar os gêneros de histórias de horror e ficção científica.
Alexandre Facuri Chareti
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Conspiracy Theories, Quantum Social Science, and the Political Power of Irrelevant Beliefs

Social Science Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 3, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Objectives Recent psychological research into conspiracy theories (CTs) has explored the possible relationships between antecedents or predisposed mindsets as explanations of increased rates of CT belief and tested the increased susceptibility to cognitive fallacies among CT believers.
Michael P. A. Murphy
wiley   +1 more source

Break on Through: Betty Eisner's Problematic Use of Psychedelics, Groups, and Control for Integrative Experiences

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 61, Issue 3, Summer 2025.
ABSTRACT Betty Eisner represents a prominent figure in the “golden age” of psychedelics research, as well as a cautionary tale about questionable therapeutic practices, exercising authority and control, and the misuse of psychedelics during the counterculture of the 1960s and 70s.
Tal Davidson, Patric Plesa
wiley   +1 more source

Spooks and Spanks; Unraveling Paranormal Romance\u27s Presence on BookTok [PDF]

, 2022
This research project examines the frequency at which the romance subgenre, paranormal romance, appears on the online social media subcommunity BookTok.
Bermudez, Lizzy
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Of gods and men: The gift of bicameral mentality in Lake Atitlán's Mayan oral literature

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 36, Issue 1, Spring 2025.
Abstract This study investigates contemporary Mayan oral stories through the lens of Julian Jaynes's theory on the origin of consciousness, aiming to identify a potential connection between the literary elements of these narratives and traits of pre‐consciousness outlined by Jaynes.
José M. Franco Rodríguez, Daniel Montoya   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source