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SuperNatural 3.0—a database of natural products and natural product-based derivatives

open access: yesNucleic 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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Supernatural Sociology: Americans’ Beliefs by Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Education

open access: yesSocius: 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Traditional Supernatural Beliefs and Prosocial Behavior

open access: yesSocial 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Proximate and ultimate causes of supernatural beliefs

open access: yesFrontiers 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Supernatural punishment beliefs as cognitively compelling tools of social control.

open access: yesCurrent 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 ...
L. Fitouchi, Manvir Singh
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Inflaton as the Affleck-Dine baryogenesis field in hilltop supernatural inflation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In this paper, we investigate the parameter space in the framework of hilltop supernatural inflation in which the inflaton field can play the role of Affleck-Dine field to produce successful baryogenesis. The suitable value of reheating temperature could
Chia-Min Lin, K. Kohri
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pathways to care and supernatural beliefs among patients with psychotic disorders in Nepal

open access: yesMiddle East Current Psychiatry, 2021
Longer pathways to care worsen the course of psychotic illness as well. The study aimed to assess the pathways to care, supernatural beliefs, and impact on the duration of untreated psychosis in patients with schizophrenia.
A. Gupta   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Facing the Monsters: Otherness in H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos and Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim and Hellboy

open access: yesReligions, 2020
What happens when we imagine the unimaginable? This article compares recent films inspired by H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos with that author’s original early 20th century pulp horror stories. In Guillermo del Toro’s films Pacific Rim
David McConeghy
doaj   +1 more source

Temporal Instability, Wildernesses, and the Otherworld in Early Modern Drama

open access: yesLiterature, 2022
This article shows how temporal disorder diffuses into the wildernesses within early modern English drama. Those areas beyond the walls of cities and castles in—among other plays—The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, and ...
Edward B. M. Rendall
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Grist to the mill of anti-evolutionism: the failed strategy of ruling the supernatural out of science by philosophical fiat [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
According to a widespread philosophical opinion, science is strictly limited to investigating natural causes and putting forth natural explanations. Lacking the tools to evaluate supernatural claims, science must remain studiously neutral on questions of
Blancke, Stefaan   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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