We examined lay people's conceptions about the relationship between mind and body and their correlates. In Study 1, a web survey (N = 850) of reflective dualistic, emergentistic, and monistic perceptions of the mind-body relationship, afterlife beliefs (i.e., common sense dualism), religiosity, paranormal beliefs, and ontological confusions about physical, biological, and psychological phenomen...

Ghost tours, which purport to bring tourists into situations where they may encounter the paranormal, hinge on humanity’s near-universal fascination with the spirit world. Ghost belief has been a contentious and ubiquitous feature of human culture through recorded time. The ghost as a theoretical construct has spanned continents and societies, surfacing in entertainments and rituals alike. In A...

Paranormal belief and suggestibility seem related. Given our recent findings outlining a putative association between suggestibility and a specific dopaminergic genetic polymorphism, we hypothesized that similar exploratory genetic data may offer supplementary insights into a similar correlation with paranormal belief. With more affordable costs and better technology in the aftermath of the hum...

Introduction: Brain lateralization is associated with human behavior. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating the effects of brain lateralization on the scores of paranormal beliefs. Methods: The study population included 180 students of Sanandaj universities, Sanandaj City, Iran who were selected with convenience sampling method (100 left-brained males, 6 left-brained females, 56 both le...

Free will is one of the fundamental aspects of human cognition. In the context of cognitive neuroscience, various experiments on time perception, sensorimotor coordination, and agency suggest the possibility that it is a robust illusion (a feeling independent of actual causal relationship with actions) constructed by neural mechanisms. Humans are known to suffer from various cognitive biases an...

in this paper we have generalized the concepts of ,q-fuzzy ideals, ,q-fuzzy quasi-ideals and,q-fuzzy bi-ideals by introducing the concepts of   k ,q -fuzzy ideals,   k ,q -fuzzy quasiideals and   k ,q -fuzzy bi-ideals in ternary semigroups and several related properties are investigated. different characterizations of regular and weakly regular ternary semigroups b...

Many studies have explored the relationship between paranormal belief and religiosity. Some studies have shown that paranormal belief correlates with religiosity, yet many studies have not supported this association. The first goal of the present investigation therefore was to replicate previous findings. It is also of interest to explore the relationship between paranormal belief and religiosi...