Time-consuming and costly religious rituals pose a puzzle for economists committed to rational choice theories of human behavior. We propose that religious rituals promote in-group trust and cooperation that help to overcome collective-action problems. To test this hypothesis we design field experiments to measure the in-group cooperative behavior of members of religious and secular Israeli kib...

Traditionally, ritual has been studied from broad sociocultural perspectives, with little consideration of the psychological processes at play. Recently, however, psychologists have begun turning their attention to the study of ritual, uncovering the causal mechanisms driving this universal aspect of human behavior. With growing interest in the psychology of ritual, this article provides an org...

The objectives of this historical-social study are: to describe the circumstances that determined the participation of North American nurses in the formation of the Brazilian nurse; and analyse the process of implementing institutional rituals as a strategy of symbolic fight, to confer visibility to the nurse profession and discuss the symbolic effects of institutional rituals for the consecrat...

The user’s experience of his or her interaction with a product is becoming an increasingly important aspect of product design. In the ‘experience economy’, experiential factors have become major discriminants affecting the success of new products. Industry is well aware of this, and likewise design schools are adjusting their curricula to better train their students to take into account factors...

Your Vedic Astrology Report consists of 4 sections: an interpretation of the Moon nakshatra and Moon sign, an analysis of yogas, a third section that describes various specific astrological influences in your chart, and an appendix of technical details. Fortunately, you do NOT need to be an astrologer or know what a "Moon nakshatra" is to read this report! If you are an astrologer or student of...

Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Laureate, has described them as “useless” for physics, yet the old uncle locked up in the attic, as John Baez describes them, play a fundamental role in the physics of the Universe, according to Vedic Physics theory. This paper explains why.

Literary theorists today tend to locate the source of the meaning of liter­ ature in its structure or context (the known) rather than in the author or reader (the knower). Maharishi Vedic Science, on the other hand, locates an absolute value of meaning in the integration of the knower, known, and process of knowing and provides a means of experiencing this value in tran­ scendental consciousnes...

Vedic Physics theory posits that Super Conductivity occurs amidst the 18 types of Quarks in the Thaamic type of matter, known as the Substratum, A.K.A. “Black Hole.” Specifically, Super Conductivity occurs at at an approximate phase related velocity, between the 4 th .and 6th power of light velocity, identified as Moha Thaama to Andha Thaama states. These states correspond to the Quark and Plan...

In this paper we have designed an energy efficient multiplier using Nikhilam Navatashcaramam Dashatah Vedic technique. Vedic mathematics consists of 16 sutras and these sutras were used by our ancient scholars for doing there calculation faster, when there were no computers and calculators. Nikhilam Navatasaman is a Sanskrit word which menas “all from 9 and the last from 10”. In today’s work th...