As support for sexual reorientation therapy—the practice of trying to change an individual’s sexual orientation—has lulled1, various therapists have been faced with the question of how to effectively and respectfully counsel their religious clients who are at odds with their sexual orientation. They appear to be faced with two options, a sexuality affirming approach and a newer approach known a...

In 3 experiments, participants reacted with religious zeal to anxious uncertainty threats that have caused reactive approach motivation (RAM) in past research (see McGregor, Nash, Mann, & Phills, 2010, for implicit, explicit, and neural evidence of RAM). In Study 1, results were specific to religious ideals and did not extend to merely superstitious beliefs. Effects were most pronounced among t...

This paper explores the barriers in accessing services for dementia by people from ethnic minority populations. The paper is divided into two main sections: the first part will examine how social, cultural, and religious attitudes within ethnic minority groups in relation to mental health and healthcare in general affect service utilisation and the second section will discuss how extrinsic fact...

Past research has revealed that relative importance a person places on extrinsic life goals as oposed to intrinsic ones is related to lower well-being. But sometimes it is more important why a goal is being pursued than the content of the goal. Materialistic aspirations will not decrease people's well-being if they help them to achieve basic financial security or some intrinsic goals. On the ot...

The study was to determine the relationship between religious self-regulation of students and their attendance on Sunday Eucharistic celebration using concept extrinsic motivation in terms of religious identified introjected self-regulation. used descriptive research design explanation research. In order carry out study, questionnaires were and adapted from SRQ_R (self-regulation Questionna...

The Problem: The objective of 3-D machine vision is to infer geometric properties (e.g. shape and size) and photometric attributes (e.g. color, texture, reflectance) from a set of 2-D images. Every such vision task relies on accurate camera calibration, that is, knowledge of the camera’s intrinsic parameters (focal length, lens distortion, etc.) and extrinsic parameters—orientation, position, a...

A contemporary orientation of the hospital experience model must encompass the clients' religious-spiritual dimension. The objective of this paper is to share a previous experience, highlighting at least five reasons hospitals should invest in this direction, and an equal number of steps required to achieve it. In the first part, the text discourses about five reasons to invest in religious-spi...