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Seeing Through the Invisible Pink Unicorn [PDF]

, 2010
This paper explores the quasi-religious aspects of the Invisible Pink Unicorn (IPU), an internet based spoof of religion. IPU message boards situate a moral orientation in an ongoing interactional process that sacralizes parody and an idealized form of ...
Abel, Andrew Stuart, Schaefer, Andrew P.
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The Protective Paradox: Can School Connectedness Buffer Socioeconomic Disparities in Adolescent Mental Health?

Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Socioeconomic status (SES) is a well‐established factor influencing adolescents’ mental health, as young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to experience stress, anxiety, and poorer overall wellbeing. One factor that may help protect students from these negative outcomes is school connectedness which is the ...
Esther Ariyo, Amurtiya Michael, Cindy Oreoluwa Ajala   +2 more
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Predicting Major Depression Among Diverse Online Gamers: The Role of Internet Addiction and Spirituality

Journal of Addictions &Offender Counseling, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyzed whether religious or spiritual affiliation and therapy enrollment protect against symptoms meeting Major Depressive Disorder criteria beyond demographic, Internet addiction, and described therapy enrollment. Findings illustrated one risk factor and one protective factor associated with experiencing symptoms that meet Major ...
Lindsay A. Lundeen, John R. McCall
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The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate Deep Commitments to Prosocial Religio [PDF]

Understanding religion requires explaining why supernatural beliefs, devotions, and rituals are both universal and variable across cultures, and why religion is so often associated with both large-scale cooperation and enduring group conflict.
Joseph Henrich, Scott Atran
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‘Pre‐Technologies’ and the Lifeworld: Assistive Technologies as ‘Pre‐Technologies’ for Self‐Formation as Freedom

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article identifies assistive technologies (ATs) as ‘pre‐technologies’ mediating access to other technologies for disabled subjects (DSs). The motivation is to show that without ATs, DSs cannot be said to have the same level of access to freedom and self‐forming activities as able‐bodied subjects.
Sarel Marais
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Exchange, Conflict and Coercion: The Ritual Dynamics of the Notting Hill Carnival Past and Present [PDF]

, 2011
This study investigates patterns of social relationships involving the Notting Hill Carnival. Two theoretical approaches are employed elementary relations theory and structural ritualization theory - to explain how the carnival has been strategically ...
Edwards, Jennifer, Knottnerus, J. David
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The Relevance of Apology to Reparations for Historical Injustice

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explains the centrality of apology to an adequate account of reparations. I look in depth at what goes on in apology. As I have previously argued, apology is an expressive action through which we seek to mark adequately the significance of our own wrongdoing. I claim that apology so understood is not merely ornamental.
Christopher Bennett
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[Review of] H. Nigel Thomas. From Folklore to Fiction: A Study of Folk Heroes and Rituals in the Black American Novel [PDF]

, 1990
The complex and important relationship between African American folklore and African American literature is the focus of this thoughtful, well-written book.
Ottenheimer, Harriet
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Understanding Autistic Young Adults' Perceptions and Experiences of Traumatic and Stressful Events

Journal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 81, Issue 6, Page 445-461, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Objectives The aim of this study was to explore how young autistic adults experience and respond to stressful life events, and the relationship between autistic characteristics and symptoms of stress associated with these events. Methods Using an exploratory sequential mixed‐methods approach, an online qualitative survey was first administered
Alliyza Lim, Robyn L. Young
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The mediating role of shame in the relationship between adolescent hairpulling and co‐occurring anxiety and depressive symptomology

JCPP Advances, EarlyView.
This study found that shame is a significant mediator in positive associations between hairpulling severity and depression and anxiety severity within a community sample of adolescents with clinical levels of hair‐pulling severity. It also found high levels of trance‐pulling and post‐pulling rituals.
Talia F. Mayerson, Clare Mackay, Polly Waite   +2 more
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