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Popular Attitudes and Beliefs About Tranquilizers
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1973In a nationwide survey of the extent and nature of psychotherapeutic drug use, respondents were also questioned about their knowledge of tranquilizers and their attitudes toward the use of these drugs in general and in specific situations. The survey revealed surprising similarities of attitudes across demographic subgroups.
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2017
In recent years there has been a significant growth in interest of the so-called “law in context” extending legal studies beyond black letter law. This book looks at the relationship between written law and legal practice. It examines how law is applied in reality and more precisely how law is perceived by the general public in contrast to the legal ...
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In recent years there has been a significant growth in interest of the so-called “law in context” extending legal studies beyond black letter law. This book looks at the relationship between written law and legal practice. It examines how law is applied in reality and more precisely how law is perceived by the general public in contrast to the legal ...
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1994
Abstract Popular belief may, in general, be regarded as the belief held by the mass of the people, by contrast to that held by the religious elite who make up the clerical hierarchy of the Church, the ‘professional men of religion’. But this distinction should not be too rigidly drawn.
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Abstract Popular belief may, in general, be regarded as the belief held by the mass of the people, by contrast to that held by the religious elite who make up the clerical hierarchy of the Church, the ‘professional men of religion’. But this distinction should not be too rigidly drawn.
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Crime & Delinquency, 1979
A careful look at several pervasive notions about crime proves them to be without base. While most Americans believe that crime has increased con siderably during the last few decades, our best evidence suggests that crime rates fluctuate somewhat but remain essentially stable over time.
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A careful look at several pervasive notions about crime proves them to be without base. While most Americans believe that crime has increased con siderably during the last few decades, our best evidence suggests that crime rates fluctuate somewhat but remain essentially stable over time.
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Religious Mobilization and Popular Belief
20151914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World ...
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Pseudoscience and Popular Beliefs
2016Campbell critically analyses television programmes on subject areas on the margins of science but which nonetheless are highly prominent on factual television channels, dealing with pseudoscientific topics such as ufology, parapsychology and cryptozoology. Despite being ‘for entertainment purposes only’ the chapter shows how programmes on pseudoscience
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Popular pragmatism and religious belief
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1977Over the centuries the philosophers who have sought metaphysical and religious knowledge have shown surprisingly little interest in what leads ordinary, non-philosophical men to hold the religious beliefs that they hold; being elitists, philosophers have tended to assume that if the non-philosopher has reason for holding the religious beliefs he holds,
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The Afterlife: Popular Beliefs Today
1996What do people today believe about the afterlife? How should research into this be conducted? The answers are not likely to be simple.
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[Antibiotics and some popular beliefs].
Revue medicale de la Suisse romande, 1998Although rarely studied, popular beliefs play a role in treatment compliance. In order to clarify this problem in the field of anti-infectious agents we sent a questionnaire to 200 patients and 100 nurses of the community hospital in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
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Beliefs About Hypnosis: Popular Beliefs, Misconceptions, and the Importance of Experience
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 2003Contemporary views and opinions about hypnosis were sampled with a modified version of McConkey's Opinions About Hypnosis (OAH) scale. The OAH was administered at 2 different times, 1 month apart, to 276 undergraduate students. Approximately half of the participants completed the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A, between the ...
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