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Connecting the dots: Illusory pattern perception predicts belief in conspiracies and the supernatural

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, 2017
A common assumption is that belief in conspiracy theories and supernatural phenomena are grounded in illusory pattern perception. In the present research we systematically tested this assumption.
Jan‐Willem van Prooijen   +2 more
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Neo-Gothic Trend in Contemporary American Teenage Literature (John August’s Arlo Finch Trilogy)

open access: yesФилологический класс, 2022
The article analyzes the novels by a famous American screenwriter John August “Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire” (2018), “Arlo Finch in the Lake of the Moon” (2019) and “Arlo Finch in the Kingdom of Shadows” (2020).
doaj   +1 more source

The quest for supernatural products: The impact of total synthesis in complex natural products medicinal chemistry

open access: yesNatural product reports (Print), 2020
This review presents select recent advances in the medicinal chemistry of complex natural products that are prepared by total synthesis. The underlying studies highlight enabling divergent synthetic strategies and methods that permit the systematic ...
Zhi-Chen Wu, D. Boger
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Review: Sarah Bartels, The Devil and the Victorians: Supernatural Evil in Nineteenth-Century English Culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Book review of Sarah Bartels, The Devil and the Victorians: Supernatural Evil in Nineteenth-Century English ...
Smith, H.
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Humanity, Nature, and the Supernatural in Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2023
This paper examines the ways through which Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” might be considered as an example of environmental literature which focuses extensively on nature and the human relationship to it.
Sabri Mnassar
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Metarepresentations of Supernatural Belief and the Effect of Context on Cognition

open access: yes, 2022
This study aimed to see if context in the form of priming can alter a participants thinking style based on their level of implicit association with either a religious or paranormal belief.
Baker, I., Sheffield, D., Schofield, M.
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The Cross-Cultural Kingship in Early Medieval Kāmarūpa: Blood, Desire and Magic

open access: yesReligions, 2017
Kingship in early medieval Kāmarūpa (Assam) was influenced by the collision of orthodox and heterodox Brahmanic traditions with various tribal cultures.
Paolo Eugenio Rosati
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The Abuser in the Machine: The Invisible Man (2020) as Modern Gothic Horror

open access: yesHumanities
By modernizing Gothic tropes within a narrative exploring the trauma of intimate partner violence, the latest film adaptation of The Invisible Man from Leigh Whannel draws attention to the invisibility of the psychological and societal horrors of abuse ...
Emily Zarka
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"Fanfiction and the author: How fanfic changes popular cultural texts," by Judith May Fathallah

open access: yesTransformative Works and Cultures, 2020
Review of Judith May Fathallah. Fanfiction and the author: How fanfic changes popular cultural texts. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017, hardcover, €99 (234p) ISBN 978-90-8964-995-9, eISBN 978-90-485-2908-7.
Balaka Basu
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Magical Realism in Evliya Çelebi’s Seyahatname

open access: yesSelçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi
Aristotle accentuates the significance of a lifelike depiction in drama and poetry. As a result, realistic art and literature display hostility to creativity and inventiveness beyond the limits of what is believable and plausible. Apart from true to life
Barış Mete
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