OBJECTIVE To find out the superstitions regarding health problems in different ethnic groups, their implications over the socio-economic development of that group and to what extent can those superstitions be related to their level of literacy. METHODS The study was a questionnaire-based survey, 20 subjects from each ethnic group were selected by cluster sampling of residential areas where th...

Humans possess a remarkable ability to discriminate structure from randomness in the environment. However, this ability appears to be systematically biased. This is nowhere more evident than in the Gambler's Fallacy (GF)-the mistaken belief that observing an increasingly long sequence of "heads" from an unbiased coin makes the occurrence of "tails" on the next trial ever more likely. Although t...

10 not believe what it is not able to derive) and mutual introspection (if an agent a i believes A then another agent a j believes that a i believes A). Thus for instance common belief can be axiomatized by introducing a new predicate symbol CB(:), and, for any a i , by adding the following two bridge rules to the deduction machinery.

Conspiracy theories are ubiquitous (e.g., 9/11, COVID-19) and can have negative consequences prejudice). Thus, there is an increasing need for evidence-based recommendations (e.g. possible target groups) with respect to interventions prevention measures. Present Bayesian three-level meta -analysis (686 correlations, 127 independent samples) includes a synthesis of the extant literature 12 perso...

Political fake news continues to be a threat contemporary societies, negatively affecting public and democratic institutions. The literature has identified political bias as one of the main predictors belief spread news. However, academic debate not been consensual regarding effect identity on discernment This systematic review (2017–2021) seeks understand whether there is consistent evidence t...

China’s foreign trade has gradually lost its advantage due to continuous rise of RMB exchange rate and the labor costs in recent years. China urgently needs explore new international markets reinvigorate trade. With development strategy “One Belt One Road”, should seize this opportunity develop Islamic finance since most countries along routes are countries. differs from traditional principles,...

This study examines how Greek-Cypriot students aged 12 to 18, an understudied group of students, construct their ethnic identity in a complex setting such as Cyprus and what motivates the students in the selection of ethnic identity labels. The choice to focus on students aged 12-18 was made on the hypothesis that young children, who did not experience the 1974 war in Cyprus, may have a differe...

There he worked in a unit that housed—or “warehoused,” as he puts it—patients with schizophrenia. Many had been abandoned by their families and faced the prospect of spending their lives in mental health institutions. It struck him: “These were people just like me in nearly every way, except for the fact that they were suffering from this tragic disease,” Ilardi recalls. “They could get lonely ...