نتایج جستجو برای: superstitions

تعداد نتایج: 312  

ژورنال: مطالعات عرفانی 2013

An important category in methodology of mystical language is to explicate mechanism of language and narrative elements in expressing the wonders wrought by saints. Since these wonderworks takes place in a complicated inexpressible world, the narrator by telling narratives in a language different with the common language tries to reconstitute the mysterious incomprehensible world of the wonderwo...

2015
Megan Meads

Superstitious actions and belief in luck should, hypothetically, have no causal relationship to the actual outcomes of events. However, many individuals still develop and observe superstitions to potentially increase the likelihood that events turn out in their favor (Abbott & Sherratt, 2011). Prior research has shown that individuals with superstitious tendencies tend to have better performanc...

2002
Shirley A. Joseph Eileen Lynd-Balta

In the human, the erratic symptoms associated with spontaneous neural activity, generated by bursts of electrical brain impulses, have contributed to the age-old folklore and superstitions associated with epilepsy. Epilepsy affects 1-2% of the population, and specifically temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) afflicts 50% of all adults with seizures. In contrast to generalized epileptic seizures, which ...

Journal: :Indian pediatrics 1990
K P Sharma A K Thakur

General illiteracy, superstitions, and a lack of dietary education are major problems in India. Specifically, mothers' beliefs about infant and child feeding may lead to the malnutrition of many infants and children in India. Mothers sometimes unnecessarily restrict the provision of food to their children during illness. The authors investigated the prevalent maternal beliefs in Kutumba, Aur...

2013
Itxaso Barberia Fernando Blanco Carmelo P. Cubillas Helena Matute

Researchers have warned that causal illusions are at the root of many superstitious beliefs and fuel many people's faith in pseudoscience, thus generating significant suffering in modern society. Therefore, it is critical that we understand the mechanisms by which these illusions develop and persist. A vast amount of research in psychology has investigated these mechanisms, but little work has ...

2011
Krzysztof Owczarek Hanna Rozenek

One of the factors which directly affects quality of life (QOL) in patients with epilepsy is society’s attitude toward this disease. Despite considerable progress in the treatment of epilepsy, many patients continue to experience extremely prejudiced behavior from society, even in culturally and economically developed countries. The climate accompanying epilepsy is still replete with prejudice,...

2009
Aaron C. Kay Jennifer A. Whitson Danielle Gaucher Adam D. Galinsky

We propose that perceptions of personal control are one means to protect the belief in a controllable, nonrandom world. Accordingly, people respond to losses of personal control by imbuing their social, physical, and metaphysical environments with order and structure. We demonstrate that when personal control is threatened, people can preserve a sense of order by (a) perceiving patterns in nois...

2010
Hilga Katerberg Kevin L. Delucchi S. Evelyn Stewart Christine Lochner Damiaan A. J. P. Denys Denise E. Stack J. Michael Andresen J. E. Grant Suck W. Kim Kyle A. Williams Johan A. den Boer Anton J. L. M. van Balkom Johannes H. Smit Patricia van Oppen Annemiek Polman Michael A. Jenike Dan J. Stein Carol A. Mathews Danielle C. Cath

To reduce the phenotypic heterogeneity of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) for genetic, clinical and translational studies, numerous factor analyses of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale checklist (YBOCS-CL) have been conducted. Results of these analyses have been inconsistent, likely as a consequence of small sample sizes and variable methodologies. Furthermore, data concerning the h...

Journal: :Seizure 2004
H.Macit Selekler Sarper Erdogan Pervin Iseri Sezer Komsuoglu

Using a standard questionnaire, 121 consequent epileptic patients have been evaluated sociodemographically and according to their beliefs and behaviours about their illness. Monthly income per person was between 26 and 62.5 U.S. dollars (USD) for 3/4 of the patients. About half of the patients were concealing their illness. About one third of the patients' education was hindered because of thei...

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