This paper identifies a new source of differences in religiosity: the type future tense marking language. We argue that rewards and punishments incentivise religious behaviour are more effective for speakers languages without inflectional tense. Consistent with this prediction, we show likely to be take up short-term costs associated religiosity. What is drive behaviour, according our results, ...

An attempt is made of giving a self-contained introduction to holomorphic ideas in general relativity, following work over the last thirty years by several authors. The main topics are complex manifolds, two-component spinor calculus, conformal gravity, α-planes in Minkowski space-time, α-surfaces and twistor geometry, anti-self-dual space-times and Penrose transform, spin-3/2 potentials, heave...

Chinese Medicine and Cancer Care Harriet Beinfield, LAc, and Efrem Korngold,LAc, OMD, have been practicing acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine for 30 years at Chinese Medicine Works in San Francisco, California. They are the co-authors of Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine and the Chinese Modular Solutions Handbook for Health Professionals. Beinfield is on the Advisory Bo...

The Big Carrot: High Stake Incentives Revisited This paper provides an empirical demonstration of high stakes incentives in relation to religious practice. It shows that, when both positive (carrot) and negative (stick) incentives are available, the former are more effective than the latter. Specifically, it is shown that beliefs in heaven are much more relevant than beliefs in hell when estima...

Abstract: The author addresses the emergence of cognitive level D in the Four-Level-Cognitive-Development Theory (FLCDT). He argues that the concept of transcendent God, ‘Maker of Heaven and Earth and of all things visible and invisible’ was an important factor for that. The problem of God’s qualities and the view of numbers in medieval Christian and Arabic philosophy are examined as some argum...