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Investigating students' beliefs in the paranormal [PDF]
, 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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Prejudice is epistemically unwarranted belief
Applied 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
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Thoroughly Modern Mina: Romance, History, and the Dracula Pastiche
Journal 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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Philosophical 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
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Police‐perpetrated racism and health in African American and Black communities
Social 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
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Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies
Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 2012 This paper traces the evolution of the figure of the queer heroine in romance from the Middle Ages through contemporary fiction. We locate queerness not only in a female protagonist’s romantic and sexual preferences, but also in any other identity ...
Katherine E. Lynch +2 more
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Psychological factors in precognitive dream experiences::The role of paranormal belief, selective recall and propensity to find correspondences. [PDF]
, 2014 We report two studies into psychological factors that have been proposed to contribute to the claim of having experienced a precognitive dream. Study 1 investigated the role of selective recall in precognitive dream experiences.
Ashley, Natalie +4 more
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Contemporary Paranormal Romance: Theories and Development of the Genre’s Feminism (Or Lack Thereof) [PDF]
, 2018 Paranormal romance is a contentious subgenre that some critics have castigated as being anti-feminist. Linda J. Lee writes that this subgenre features “male protagonists [who often] come from a cultural background in which men are dominant over women ...
Kollman, Kathleen
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Signa: Revista de la Asociación Española de Semiótica, 2012 A partir de la obra poética de José Ángel Valente construimos una estética de la disolución en la que todo parece disolverse en su propio interior y esta infiniversión crea una red que liga las problemáticas del infinito, el ritmo, la materia, la forma y el vacío.From the poetic works of José Ángel Valente we construct an aesthetic of dissintegration ...
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, 2018 Paranormal Romance was a term coined in the 1990’s, but during that decade, this subgenre was very marginal. The genre, which was all but disappearing by the year 2000 started to take off at the beginning of the 21st Century.
Ramos-Garcia, Maria T.
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