OBJECTIVE To find out the superstitions regarding health problems in different ethnic groups, their implications over the socio-economic development of that group and to what extent can those superstitions be related to their level of literacy. METHODS The study was a questionnaire-based survey, 20 subjects from each ethnic group were selected by cluster sampling of residential areas where th...

T he Enlightenment was a philosophical, intellectual and cultural movement of the late 17 century that stressed reason, science and freedom of thought over dogma, blind faith and superstitious deism. One of the driving forces of the Enlightenment was the oppression of research and original thought imposed by the Catholic Church. The most extreme example was when astronomers were told that they ...

surprise to both the medical profession and the laity to hear that the subject of dreams is still imperfectly understood. Ancient philosophers endeavoured to attach ?to dreams a prophetic meaning, and even to-day, among the superstitious and ignorant, dreams form a basis for prophecy, necromancy, and the like. There 'is no question about the influence of dreams on modern life and thought. There...

A digital-computer program has been written to operate a psychological experiment. This program is designed to be used by experimenters who are not skilled in computer technology. The program ensures that a properly initialized and fully documented experiment will be conducted. The psychological experiment itself is designed to investigate the ability of human subjects to predict successive num...

The Protestant reformers’ iconoclasm was not only a theoretical objection to what they considered the idolatry of religious images, but was, as well, a campaign for the removal (more or less violent in different places) and destruction of church art of all kinds. In sixteenthcentury England there was less rioting and smashing than in Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, but the end result...

Objectives: Past research has shown that traditional Chinese death beliefs are related to death anxiety. Many of them are considered as superstitious thoughts. However, other studies have shown that superstitions may help people cope with uncertainty and reduce uncertainty-induced anxiety. The role of superstitions, whether related to higher death anxiety, or help reduce death anxiety is unclea...

The availability of both direct performance feedback at the organization level and vicarious information at the industry level raises the question of their relative impact, as well as potential multilevel interactions. Prior research suggests that an organization’s own experience after adopting an innovative managerial practice tends to replace information collected by observing other organizat...

Enlightenment, the german philosopher immanuel Kant (1724–1804) surmised, is Man’s emergence from self-imposed immaturity. From the ancient greeks and the philosophers of the roman republic, to the thinkers of the European Enlightenment and the great scientists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, philosophers and scientists have used science and reason to fight the superstitious belief t...

To assess trends of public attitudes toward epilepsy in Korea, two surveys were performed in the same village using a common questionnaire before and after the schedule of public education on epilepsy. Cross-sectional studies were conducted by means of a door-to-door interview, in which all residents over 19 yr of age living in the survey area were targeted. Vehicles for the educational campaig...

Iran is suffering from the 2(nd) most severe addiction to opioids in the world. While the explanation of this enormous drug problem is refutably related to drug trafficking, the drug dilemma also illustrates the chain reaction of the imposed war with Iraq in 1980 - 88; the problems of poverty, unemployment, urbanization, homelessness, adultery, family crises, divorce, domestic violence, and run...