Another person's heart: magical and rational thinking in the psychological adaptation to heart transplantation.

BACKGROUND: The goal of this study was to examine heart transplant recipients' psychological adaptation to another person's heart, with particular emphasis on recipients' attitudes toward graft and do…

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Inspector, Y., Kutz, I., & David, D. (2004). Another person's heart: magical and rational thinking in the psychological adaptation to heart transplantation.. Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci, 41(3), 161-73.

Would the NHS benefit from a single, identifiable leader? An email conversation.

Would an identifiable leader of the NHS solve all of its problems alone or overnight—or is that magical thinking?

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Berwick, D., Ham, C., & Smith, R. (2003). Would the NHS benefit from a single, identifiable leader? An email conversation.. BMJ, 327(7429), 1421-4. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1421

[Validation of the French version of the Raine schizotypal personality questionnaire in a population of Tunisian students].

Schizotypal personality disorder is considered as a marquer of schizophrenia proneness. In opposition at other self report measures of schizotypal personality disorder, the "Schizotypal Personality Qu…

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Mechri, A., Gassab, L., Dumas, P., Saoud, M., Gutknecht, C., Zaafrane, F., Khiari, G., D'Amato, T., Dalery, J., & Gaha, L. (2003). [Validation of the French version of the Raine schizotypal personality questionnaire in a population of Tunisian students].. Tunis Med, 81(11), 858-63.

A MRI study of fusiform gyrus in schizotypal personality disorder.

The fusiform gyrus is important for face and object recognition, is abnormal in schizophrenia, but has not been studied in schizotypal personality disorder (SPD). Thin-slice MR images showed no differ…

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Dickey, C. C., McCarley, R. W., Voglmaier, M. M., Niznikiewicz, M. A., Seidman, L. J., Frumin, M., Toner, S., Demeo, S., & Shenton, M. E. (2003). A MRI study of fusiform gyrus in schizotypal personality disorder.. Schizophr Res, 64(1), 35-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0920-9964(02)00529-7

What does a "superstitious" person believe? Impressions of participants.

The questions in surveys in which superstitious belief is examined are based on the researcher or researchers' definitions of superstition and not on participants' definitions. In the present study, 1…

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Rudski, J. (2003). What does a "superstitious" person believe? Impressions of participants.. J Gen Psychol, 130(4), 431-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221300309601168

The metaphor of "family" in staff communication about dying and death.

OBJECTIVES: Caregiving staff need to have a way to make sense out of the death and dying of nursing home residents. A range of cultural and institutional factors (e.g., disenfranchised grief; professi…

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Moss, M. S., Moss, S. Z., Rubinstein, R. L., & Black, H. K. (2003). The metaphor of "family" in staff communication about dying and death.. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci, 58(5), S290-6. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/58.5.s290

Magical thinking and button battery ingestion.

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Leclerc, J. E. (2003). Magical thinking and button battery ingestion.. J Otolaryngol, 32(4), 266-8. https://doi.org/10.2310/7070.2003.41657

Psychosocial problems of pre-clinical students in the University of Ibadan Medical School.

Recent changes in the psychosocial environment of the university campus such as the steep rise in student numbers, the high cost of living standards and the increase in violence and cult activities ha…

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Omokhodion, F. O. (2003). Psychosocial problems of pre-clinical students in the University of Ibadan Medical School.. Afr J Med Med Sci, 32(2), 135-8.

Temperament and character personality dimensions in patients with dental anxiety.

The aim of the present study was to investigate character and temperament dimensions of personality in six men and 31 women (aged 20-57 yr) with severe dental anxiety, and to evaluate whether these di…

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Bergdahl, M., & Bergdahl, J. (2003). Temperament and character personality dimensions in patients with dental anxiety.. Eur J Oral Sci, 111(2), 93-8. https://doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0722.2003.00028.x

The correlation between thought-action fusion and religiosity in a normal sample.

Thought-action fusion (TAF) refers to a set of two cognitive biases that are thought to contribute to the inflation of feelings of responsibility for one's own thoughts, and thus to the development of…

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Rassin, E., & Koster, E. (2003). The correlation between thought-action fusion and religiosity in a normal sample.. Behav Res Ther, 41(3), 361-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0005-7967(02)00096-7

Fantasy proneness, creative capacity, and styles of creativity.

The Creativity Styles Questionnaire-Revised was used to measure graduate psychology students' (N=173) self-perceptions of creative capacity and styles of creativity (beliefs about and strategies for g…

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Lack, S. A., Kumar, V. K., & Arevalo, S. (2003). Fantasy proneness, creative capacity, and styles of creativity.. Percept Mot Skills, 96(1), 19-24. https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.2003.96.1.19

Old wine in new bottles? Stability and plasticity of the contents of schizophrenic delusions.

A number of recent case reports published during the last 20 years described a quick inclusion of new technologies and cultural innovations into schizophrenic delusions which led many of the authors t…

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Stompe, T., Ortwein-Swoboda, G., Ritter, K., & Schanda, H. (2003). Old wine in new bottles? Stability and plasticity of the contents of schizophrenic delusions.. Psychopathology, 36(1), 6-12. https://doi.org/10.1159/000069658