This article examines the transgressive figure of Magdalena Camacho “La camarones”, who due to her superstitious practices embodied profile unorthodox female moves outside patriarchal structures. Recognized by those knew well as a great witch, fluctuated between constantly everyday existence and imaginaries based on prejudice stigma. She was tried before Inquisition from 1662 1664 in Lima, case...

Clean India's mission is the world’s largest toilet-building and behavioral change initiative. The Mission Media’s role to inform, educate, entertain; so mass media make nationwide campaigns open eyes of poor, backward-class people; also want enlighten open-minded ideas into rigid superstitious people. Most all third-world countries are facing a big problem access safe healthy sanitation. Media...

In this essay, I investigate the Paulician communities that lived in Ottoman Bulgaria between 17th and 18th centuries. At end of 16th century, a group Bosnian Franciscans founded Catholic mission there began to convert Paulicians. However, religious conduct remained tied ancient customs, traditions rituals perceived by missionaries as superstitions. particular, vast majority converts continued ...

Background As a theoretical framework for understanding illness self-management, the commonsense model of self-regulation (CSM) has been commonly used to promote health behaviors. However, its application examining gambling disorder (GD) is still in an exploratory stage. Objectives Based on CSM, current study aimed address this knowledge gap and test whether representations (i.e., perceived con...

In the social sciences, talk about belief is ubiquitous . Since social scientists are typically self-conscious about their methods, there is also a lot of talk about talk about belief And since belief is a genuinely curious and perplexing phenomenon , showing many different faces to the world , there is abundant controversy. Sometimes belief attribution appears to be a dark, risky, and imponder...

Pigeons were conditioned to peck a response key under a procedure that alternated periods of food reinforcement with periods of extinction. The pigeons attacked a nearby pigeon at the onset of extinction. Some also attacked a stuffed model of a pigeon. The duration of attack was an inverse function of the time since the last food reinforcement and a direct function of the number of reinforcemen...

There are many opportunities in everyday life to associate consumer products with success or failure. For example, when a basketball fan drinks a particular brand of soda while watching her favorite team win a game, she may perceive that this consumption facilitated the victory. Subsequently, the fan may continue to purchase and consume this same item during future games, in an attempt to help ...