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Utopia paranormal — o legado de Ahmad Khalid Tawfiq

open access: yesMalala
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
doaj   +1 more source

Conspiracy Theories, Quantum Social Science, and the Political Power of Irrelevant Beliefs

open access: yesSocial 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

open access: yesJournal 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

Of gods and men: The gift of bicameral mentality in Lake Atitlán's Mayan oral literature

open access: yesAnthropology 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   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prejudice is epistemically unwarranted belief

open access: yesApplied Cognitive Psychology, Volume 38, Issue 3, May/June 2024.
Abstract In two preregistered online studies with U.S. adults, we provide evidence of a common psychological profile characterizing belief in prejudicial and non‐prejudicial epistemically unwarranted claims. We solicited self‐report ratings of beliefs in prejudicial and non‐prejudicial pseudoscientific, conspiratorial, and paranormal claims, as well as
Emilio Jon Christopher Lobato   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating students' beliefs in the paranormal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Plan BThis study was designed to investigate students’ beliefs in the paranormal, and to investigate the relationship between personal experience with a phenomenon, age , gender, interest in paranormal phenomena, spirituality and students’ beliefs.
Lewis, Chad M.
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Thoroughly Modern Mina: Romance, History, and the Dracula Pastiche

open access: yesJournal of Popular Romance Studies, 2019
Dracula pastiches have been popular for decades, but it is only since the 1970s that authors have regularly turned to imagining romances between Dracula and Mina Harker.
Miriam Elizabeth Burstein
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Investigating “man’s relation to reality”: Peter Winch, the vanishing shed and metaphysics after Wittgenstein

open access: yesPhilosophical Investigations, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 3-23, January 2024.
Abstract Peter Winch believed that the central task of philosophy was to investigate ‘the force of the concept of reality’ in human practices. This involved creative dialogue with critical metaphysics. In ‘Ceasing to Exist’, Winch considered what it means to judge that something unheard‐of has happened.
Olli Lagerspetz
wiley   +1 more source

Police‐perpetrated racism and health in African American and Black communities

open access: yesSocial and Personality Psychology Compass, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2024.
Abstract This brief review article focuses on police‐perpetrated racism against African American and Black (AAB) communities, typically in the form of police brutality, police violence, and aggressive policing. We assert that police‐perpetrated racism constitutes a racial justice and public health problem.
Lori S. Hoggard, Mariah T. Lutchman
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yes, 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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