Paranormal Beliefs
Introducing the modified paranormal belief scale: distinguishing between classic paranormal beliefs, religious paranormal beliefs and conventional religiosity among undergraduates in Northern Ireland and Wales
... religious beliefs (for example, God, heaven, hell, angels and the devil) and a battery of items concerned with paranormal beliefs (for example, astrology, crystals, ghosts, extra-sensory perception, ...
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Investigating the Role of Brain Lateralization and Gender in Paranormal Beliefs
... Paranormal beliefs have been defined as issues that vio- late the fundamental principles of science (Broad, ...1949). Paranormal beliefs are hardly consistent with contem- porary science ...
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The relationship between paranormal belief and the HEXACO domains of personality
... and paranormal beliefs among a sample of 307 undergraduates in ...that paranormal beliefs are associated with more maladaptive aspects of ...religious paranormal beliefs were ...
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Contacting the spirits of the dead: paranormal belief and the teenage worldview
... hold paranormal beliefs are less concerned about conventional social expectations (tables 8 and 9) is given further support by the data presented in table ...
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Personality and paranormal belief: a study among adolescents
... of paranormal beliefs among ...in paranormal phenomena than younger pupils ...between paranormal belief and ...regarding paranormal beliefs became more pronounced among older ...
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The Relationship between Paranormal Belief and the HEXACO Domains of Personality
... between paranormal belief and the ...between paranormal belief, neuroticism and openness to experience when using the Five Factor ...the paranormal is not related to any single personality ...when ...
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Radical physics: science, Socialism, and the paranormal at Birkbeck College in the 1970s
... Although these arguments have been productive in drawing attention to the social life of science, this article takes a different approach to the paranormal. I focus pri- marily on paraphysics and psychokinetics, ...
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Belief in the paranormal and modern health worries
... the beliefs that fall into this category, while excluding idiosyncratic beliefs, demonstrably psychotic delusions and developmentally immature beliefs, and scientific hypotheses awaiting empirical ...
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Personality, conventional Christian belief and unconventional paranormal belief : a study among teenagers
... The present study set out to build on the foundations of the four projects reported by Lester (1993), Willging and Lester (1997), Peltzer (2002) and Williams, Francis, and Robbins (2007) concerning the relationship ...
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The Paranormal is (Still) Normal: The Sociological Implications of a Survey of Paranormal Experiences in Great Britain
... reported paranormal beliefs and CAM in the Flemish population found a correlation between these variables (Van de Bulck and Custers ...the paranormal and support for CAM were also very strongly ...
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Stakes and Beliefs
... individualโs beliefs and the roles of belief in social interactions. Beliefs that are so modeled may be highly sensitive to context, or at least their influences may ...specific beliefs are activated ...
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The Truth (of the Matter Asserted) Is out There: Law and the Paranormal Outside the First Amendment
... 2. W ILLIAM S HAKESPEARE , H AMLET act 1, sc. V. (Harold Jenkins ed., Methuen Pub. Ltd. 1982). 3. The scope of this article requires some explanation. As a general rule, this article ignores constitutional law. The Free ...
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Beyond faith and reason:the genesis of psychical research and the search for the paranormal domain (1850 1914)
... Hamilton suggests that Myers foreshadowed the work of Jung and Freud because of the manner in which he described sleep, and the dreams experienced within it, as worthy of investigation, rather than just as the ...
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Presuppositions as Beliefs
... Presuppositions as Beliefs P r e s u p p o s i t i o n s a s B e l i e f s D i a n e H O R T O N a n d G r a e m e H I I t S T D e p a r t m e n t o f C o m p u t e r S c i e n c e U n i v e r s i t y[.] ...
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The effect of pseudo-psychic demonstrations as dependent on belief in paranormal phenomena and suggestibility
... the paranormal (parapsychology refers to Rhineโs Revolution), there were, and still are some mediumistic tricksters who are in the public eye and have been scienti๏ฌcally ...the paranormal powers of ...
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Paranormal tourism in Edinburgh : storytelling, appropriating ghost culture and presenting an uncanny heritage
... toward beliefs which were considered ...the paranormal became approached through the scientific ...and paranormal communities, where the use of revolutionary instruments and inventions became ...
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12. Riesz projection and Weyl's theorem for hereditary absolute-$(p,r)$-paranormal operators
... Abstract. A bounded linear operator ๐ โ ๐ต(๐ป ), ๐ป a Hilbert space is hered- itarily absolute-(p,r)-paranormal (๐ป๐ด๐) , if when ever ๐ โ ๐ป is a closed invariant subspace of ๐ , the restriction ๐ โฃ๐ of ๐ to ๐ is ...
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Beliefs around luck : confirming the empirical conceptualization of beliefs around luck and the development of the Darke and Freedman beliefs around luck scale
... The four factor model may seem counter-intuitive or possibly attributable to an artefact of scoring, given that beliefs around luck form two closely conceptually related pairs. However, similar structures arise ...
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Illness beliefs in schizophrenia
... Barrowclough and Jones (2003) and Talley (1999), who suggested that psychiatric patients do form cognitive representations about their experiences, but that it may be inappropriate to use methods derived from physical ...
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Rationalizing Irrational Beliefs
... One real life example related to the centipede games that we examine in this paper is the rotating-savings and credit associations (Roscas), commonly found in many devel- oping countries. (See Besley et al . [16] and ...
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