Magic Medicine.

BACKGROUND: A superstition is a belief or practice that is considered irrational, resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance or a false conception of causation. In medical…

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St, A. m. o. u. r. . B., & DeHart, W. B. (2020). Magic Medicine.. HCA Healthc J Med, 1(6), 499-505. https://doi.org/10.36518/2689-0216.1117

Religion, faith, and spirituality influences on HIV prevention activities: A scoping review.

INTRODUCTION: Strategies to increase uptake of next-generation biomedical prevention technologies (e.g., long-acting injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)) can benefit from understanding associat…

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Vigliotti, V., Taggart, T., Walker, M., Kusmastuti, S., & Ransome, Y. (2020). Religion, faith, and spirituality influences on HIV prevention activities: A scoping review.. PLoS One, 15(6), e0234720. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234720

Cultural "Blind Spots," Social Influence and the Welfare of Working Donkeys in Brick Kilns in Northern India.

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) work across the globe to improve the welfare of working equids. Despite decades of veterinary and other interventions, welfare issues persist with equids working …

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Watson, T. L., Kubasiewicz, L. M., Chamberlain, N., Nye, C., Raw, Z., & Burden, F. A. (2020). Cultural "Blind Spots," Social Influence and the Welfare of Working Donkeys in Brick Kilns in Northern India.. Front Vet Sci, 7, 214. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.00214

When Push Comes to Shove-How Should Physicians Respond to Magical Thinking?

Should doctors shove their patients to choose in ways that are aligned with the patients' desired goals, when the patients' choices go wrong because of magical beliefs? I argue that doctors should not…

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Holm, S. (2020). When Push Comes to Shove-How Should Physicians Respond to Magical Thinking?. J Clin Ethics, 31(1), 86-88.

Do You Believe in Magic? Shove, Don't Nudge: Advising Patients at the Bedside.

Magical thinking, distortions of reality based on fantasy, are pervasive in society and may influence patients' healthcare decisions. These distortions can "nudge" people to make decisions using Syste…

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Iserson, K. V. (2020). Do You Believe in Magic? Shove, Don't Nudge: Advising Patients at the Bedside.. J Clin Ethics, 31(1), 76-78.

Inducing and manipulating sensations of incompleteness.

Incompleteness (INC) and Harm Avoidance (HA) are known core dimensions of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Emotional processing and inhibitory learning (IL) have both been proposed as viable mecha…

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Taboas, W., & McKay, D. (2020). Inducing and manipulating sensations of incompleteness.. Bull Menninger Clin, 84(3), 237-263. https://doi.org/10.1521/bumc.2020.84.3.237

The Effect of Trait and State Disgust on Fear of God and Sin.

There is a growing literature suggesting disgust plays a major role in religiosity. However, the relationships between specific domains of disgust sensitivity and general religious fundamentalism or r…

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Stewart, P. A., Adams, T. G., & Senior, C. (2020). The Effect of Trait and State Disgust on Fear of God and Sin.. Front Psychol, 11, 51. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00051

Incompleteness, harm avoidance, and disgust: A comparison of youth with OCD, anxiety disorders, and no psychiatric disorder.

Psychological models of pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) place a heavy emphasis on harm avoidance as a maintaining factor and target for treatment. Incompleteness and disgust may also pla…

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Cervin, M., Perrin, S., Olsson, E., Claesdotter-Knutsson, E., & Lindvall, M. (2020). Incompleteness, harm avoidance, and disgust: A comparison of youth with OCD, anxiety disorders, and no psychiatric disorder.. J Anxiety Disord, 69, 102175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2019.102175

[The restart model of initiating a complex treatment of schizophrenic patients in the Religion Psychological Psychiatric Department].

The development of our techno civilization by the enormous increase of information flow and mobility signi ficantly increased conflicts of our time's spiritual streams. That means elevated burden of i…

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Süle, F. (2020). [The restart model of initiating a complex treatment of schizophrenic patients in the Religion Psychological Psychiatric Department].. Psychiatr Hung, 35(3), 269-288.

"Blessed by the algorithm": Theistic conceptions of artificial intelligence in online discourse.

"My first long haul flight that didn't fill up and an empty row for me. I have been blessed by the algorithm ". The phrase 'blessed by the algorithm' expresses the feeling of having been fortunate in …

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Singler, B. (2020). "Blessed by the algorithm": Theistic conceptions of artificial intelligence in online discourse.. AI Soc, 35(4), 945-955. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-00968-2

Formation and Evolution of Disks Around Young Stellar Objects.

Recent observations have suggested that circumstellar disks may commonly form around young stellar objects. Although the formation of circumstellar disks can be a natural result of the conservation of…

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Zhao, B., Tomida, K., Hennebelle, P., Tobin, J. J., Maury, A., Hirota, T., Sánchez-Monge, Ã. ., Kuiper, R., Rosen, A., Bhandare, A., Padovani, M., & Lee, Y. N. (2020). Formation and Evolution of Disks Around Young Stellar Objects.. Space Sci Rev, 216(3), 43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-020-00664-z

Psychometric assessment of the Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale.

The Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale (GCBS) is the most widely used measure of general belief in conspiracy theories. The scale comprises five related but distinct factors (Government Malfeasance, E…

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Drinkwater, K. G., Dagnall, N., Denovan, A., & Neave, N. (2020). Psychometric assessment of the Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale.. PLoS One, 15(3), e0230365. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230365