The objective was to determine the extent to which it was possible to induce superstitious behaviour and beliefs in a golf putting task in a laboratory. Participants (N = 28) took part in a putting task using three identical clubs in which visual feedback regarding performance was restricted. Participants were provided with verbal feedback of their performance, which was honest when they used o...

This research examined three explanations for the "superstitious" behavior of pigeons under frequent fixed-time delivery of food: accidental response-reward contingency, stimulus substitution, and elicited species-typical appetitive behavior. The behavior observed in these studies consisted of occasional postfood locomotion away from the food hopper, and a predominant pattern of activity direct...

This study was conducted in order to examine the beliefs players have regarding superstition and luck and how these beliefs are related to their gambling behaviour. A self-completion questionnaire was devised and the study was carried out in a large bingo hall in Nottingham, over four nights. 412 "volunteer" bingo players completed the questionnaires. Significant relationships were found in man...

The author has set out to provide the minimum information of preventive medicine which a practitioner of medicine should have: accordingly this book reads in many places like a series of notes for a course of lectures. The word " Practical " in the title is misleading; the most practical items in the book are the photographs which show various up-to-date methods of disease prevention, and with ...

OBJECTIVE Cotard's syndrome is a rare psychiatric syndrome. Its core symptom is nihilistic ideation or delusion. CASE REPORT A female patient with Cotard's syndrome symptoms associated with out of body experience and depersonalization, and complicated grief was referred for evaluation. She believed that she was killed by a creature named "Aal" in the Persian folklore Conclusions: Cultural and...

irregular practitioners of medicine and surgery, who occupy to them the same relative position as quacks and bone-setters to European physicians and surgeons. The individuals referred to may be of any caste or profession, but are peculiar in one circumstance, that their skill has been exercised in the same line from father to son?often for many generations. The Brahmins, being as ready as their...

Basically, instrumental conditioning is learning through consequences: Behavior that produces positive results (high “instrumental response”) is reinforced, and that which produces negative effects (low “instrumental response”) is weakened. Instrumental conditioning plays a major role in learning, but the content of such learning might be desired (e.g. correct cause-effect association) or undes...