Null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) is the researcher's workhorse for making inductive inferences. This method has often been challenged, has occasionally been defended, and has persistently been used through most of the history of scientific psychology. This article reviews both the criticisms of NHST and the arguments brought to its defense. The review shows that the criticisms addres...

Abstract The fragments of a hexameter poem about Dionysus recently discovered in palimpsest (Sin. Ar. NF 66) reveal some different faces Dionysus, including an Adonis-figure at the heart dispute between two goddesses (Persephone and Aphrodite), personified wine-god, Oinos, threatened by machinations his enemies court Zeus. These texts help to illuminate allusions early life god that have long p...

Abstract In 2019 a tiny gold tablet, once folded several times, turned up in private collection Hungary. Due to its physical appearance and the layout of text, tablet originally had been identified as ‘foil with Greek magical inscription’ an auction catalogue. At first glance, however, it becomes obvious that text was written Latin letters. Although parts recall Christian apologists' works, pag...

Recent work in the cognitive science of religion has challenged some explanatory assumptions previous research field. Nonetheless, practitioners new theorize same skeptical spirit as their predecessors and either imply or explicitly claim that projects undermine warrant religious beliefs. In this article, I argue these theories do no additional argumentative when compared to attempts debunk bel...

In the first chapter, the author studies the concept of resurrection among Sadducees and Pharisees, using material from Josephus, the Gospels, Acts, and the Rabbinic literature to examine how each conceives the idea of resurrection and the symbolic boundaries through which its builds an identity. The second chapter analyzes the idea of resurrection among the first followers of Jesus including i...

The increasing incidence of requests for medical services to support gender transition for children, adolescents, and adults has consequences for society, governmental institutions, schools, families, health-care professionals, and, of course, patients. The sociological momentum to recognize and accommodate to trans phenomena has posed ethical dilemmas for endocrinologists, mental health profes...

Some commentators dismiss Arkes and Tetlock (this issue) on two grounds that we regard as specious, namely that we are either (a) political apologists for covert bigotry—the soft-on-racism charge raised by Sears (this issue) or (b) psychological naïfs who cling to obsolete definitions of attitudes and prejudice—the scientific incompetence charge raised by both Banaji, Nosek, and Greenwald (this...