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SuperNatural 3.0—a database of natural products and natural product-based derivatives
Nucleic Acids Res., 2022 Natural products (NPs) are single chemical compounds, substances or mixtures produced by a living organism - found in nature. Evolutionarily, NPs have been used as healing agents since thousands of years and still today continue to be the most important ...
Kathleen Gallo +6 more
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Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 2022 For many people worldwide, supernatural beliefs and attributions-those focused on God, the devil, demons, spirits, an afterlife, karma, or fate-are part of everyday life.
Julie J. Exline, J. Wilt
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Supernatural Sociology: Americans’ Beliefs by Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Education
Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 2022 The authors analyze the 2020–2021 Chapman University Survey of American Fears (n = 1,035), the most recent nationally representative survey to examine fears of and beliefs about supernatural and paranormal phenomena, including ghosts, hauntings, zombies,
Tony Silva, Ashley Woody
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Supernatural punishment beliefs as cognitively compelling tools of social control.
Current Opinion in Psychology, 2021 Why do humans develop beliefs in supernatural entities that punish uncooperative behaviors? Leading hypotheses maintain that these beliefs are widespread because they facilitate cooperation, allowing their groups to outcompete others in intergroup ...
Léo Fitouchi, Manvir Singh
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Traditional Supernatural Beliefs and Prosocial Behavior
Social Science Research Network, 2022 In most of Africa, traditional supernatural beliefs, including beliefs in witchcraft, black magic, or fetishism, are widespread and have remained so despite the spread of Christianity. The effects of these beliefs remain unclear.
Etienne Le Rossignol +2 more
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Amerika, 2023 The question as to why, towards the end of the XXth Century and the first decades of the XXIst, the literature and cinema of some South American countries, most notably Argentina and Chile, embraced the protocols of horror literature and associated ...
Carlos Gamerro
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Proximate and ultimate causes of supernatural beliefs
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 COPYRIGHT © 2022 van Elk. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the ...
M. van Elk
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Human Nature, 2022 Many cognitive and evolutionary theories of religion argue that supernatural explanations are byproducts of our cognitive adaptations. An influential argument states that our supernatural explanations result from a tendency to generate anthropomorphic ...
Aaron D. Lightner, E. Hagen
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2015 Simon Greenhill +2 more
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Development of the Paranormal and Supernatural Beliefs Scale using classical and modern test theory
BMC Psychology, 2021 This study describes the construction and validation of a new scale for measuring belief in paranormal phenomena. The work aims to address psychometric and conceptual shortcomings associated with existing measures of paranormal belief.
C. Dean +5 more
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