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Supernatural operating rules: How people envision and experience God, the devil, ghosts/spirits, fate/destiny, karma, and luck.

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 2021
How do people decide whether a supernatural entity (God, the devil, ghosts/spirits, fate/destiny, karma, or luck) has intervened in their lives? Their decisions may depend partly on how well the event fits with beliefs about the entity’s supernatural ...
Julie J. Exline   +6 more
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Supernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World, by Clay Routledge.

Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, 2021
Supernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World, by Clay Routledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Siria Kohonen
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Who Engages with Supernatural Entities? An Investigation of Personality and Cognitive Style Predictors

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2021
We tested preregistered hypotheses (a) examining the structure of supernatural beliefs and perceived experiences and (b) predicting supernatural engagement from the Big Five and cognitive styles. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of self-
J. Wilt   +5 more
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Constructing Ideas of the Supernatural

, 2021
The recent proliferation of research on children’s supernatural concepts is noteworthy, as this work is necessary for a full account of human cognition.
Jonathan D. Lane
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Anxiety Enhances Recall of Supernatural Agents

The international journal for the psychology of religion, 2021
The motivational account of religious belief – that belief fulfills some psychological need – has been historically popular, and recent studies have identified a causal role for anxiety in particular.
Thomas Swan, J. Halberstadt
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Supernatural

2021
A captivating exploration of the television phenomenon that is Supernatural, with insights into characters, plots, and the show’s impact on pop culture. When Supernatural first aired on the CW in 2005, it was dismissed by many for being “pretty guys fighting demons.” Yet Supernatural persisted for 15 seasons to become the anchor of the ...
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Natural, But Not Supernatural, Literal Immortality Affirmation Attenuates Mortality Salience Effects on Worldview Defense in Atheists

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2020
The present research explored whether atheists managing death awareness would be effectively buffered by affirmations of supernatural and/or natural literal immortality. Prior data were reanalyzed, revealing ambiguous results, so further experiments were
Kenneth E. Vail   +3 more
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Belief in karma: How cultural evolution, cognition, and motivations shape belief in supernatural justice

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 2019
Karma is believed to be a source of supernatural justice through which actions lead to morally congruent outcomes, within and across lifetimes. It is a central tenet of many world religions and appears in the social evaluations expressed by religious and
Cindel J. M. White, A. Norenzayan
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‘Supernatural’ killer cells

Immunology Today, 1985
The observation that lymphocytes from healthy individuals, without any known sensitization, could spontaneously lyse tumour target cells in vitro(1,2) was first thought to be an in-vitro artefact. Now the effector cells, known as natural killer (NK) cells, are accepted as a clearly distinct albeit heterogeneous subpopulation of lymphocytes.
G F, Burns   +4 more
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