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Shakespeare and the supernatural

open access: yes, 2020
Supernatural elements are of central significance in many of Shakespeare’s plays, contributing to their dramatic power and intrigue. Ghosts haunt political spaces and internal psyches, witches foresee the future and disturb the present, fairies meddle ...
Yan Brailowsky, V. Bladen
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Supernatural Attributions: Seeing God, the Devil, Demons, Spirits, Fate, and Karma as Causes of Events.

open access: yesAnnual 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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

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

Development of the Paranormal and Supernatural Beliefs Scale using classical and modern test theory

open access: yesBMC 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
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

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

Supernatural in Malay people folklore in the Langkawi, Kedah district

open access: yes, 2021
The tradition of the Malay believes in supernatural elements in all aspects of life such as in matters that involves beliefs towards the existence of the unseen. According to Noriah (1983), supernatural incidents are matters that cannot be grasped by the
Abu Bakar, Roslina   +2 more
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