In recent decades, historians of religions have turned to, and developed, entirely new methodologies for the study of religion and human consciousness. Foremost among these are a collection of approaches often termed the “cognitive science of religion” (CSR), typically drawing on cognitive science, neuroscience, linguistics, and contemporary metaphor theory. Although we are still “early” in thi...

The development of critical consciousness is seen as a key stage in communities increasing levels of dialogue about priority problems and effecting structural change for health. However, relatively little research identifies concrete methods for programmes to build critical consciousness. We examined how a South African structural intervention used critical consciousness as a tool for preventio...

The study investigated the psychological characteristics of entrepreneurship of 829 college students in China by questionnaire. The psychological characteristics include five aspects: entrepreneurial capacity, entrepreneurial belief, entrepreneurial consciousness, entrepreneurial motivation, and entrepreneurial determination. In the five factors, the entrepreneurial consciousness of college stu...

In the following paper I will be comparing two trains of thought in the method of attaining knowledge, or lack thereof. The first critique will be from feminist epistemology headed by Genevieve Lloyd who argues that there is a fundamental difference in the knowledge of men and of women; the female virtues, as she states, have not been given their full voice in epistemology and philosophy in gen...

Purpose : to study the formed images of sexual self-consciousness in persons who applied for permission change their sex. Materials and methods 80 people were examined, 40 whom sex (20 male 20 female biological sex). The comparison group — men women, whose gender identity coincides with Methods Sandra Bem's BSRI (Bem Sex-Role Inventory) test, V.V. Stolin's self-attitude questionnaire, O.L. Kust...

The Million Mom March (favoring gun control) and Code Pink: Women for Peace (focusing on foreign policy, especially the war in Iraq) are organizations that have mobilized women as women in an era when other women’s groups struggled to maintain critical mass and turned away from non-gender-specific public issues. This article addresses how these organizations fostered collective consciousness am...

21 22 There is growing evidence that the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii modifies behaviour of its 23 intermediate hosts including humans, where it globally infects about 20-60 % of the population. 24 Although it is considered asymptomatic in its latent stage, it was previously found to have 25 remarkable and gender different effects on the personality factors A (warmth), G (rule 26 consciousness),...

The aim of the study was to explore relationship between college graduates’ dual self-consciousness, job search clarity and perceived stress, reveal mediating role stress self-consciousness clarity. In this study, 467 graduates were investigated using Dual Self-Consciousness Scale, Job Search Clarity Perceived Stress Scale. After controlling for gender, age, region, results revealed that: (1) p...

This study examined how meritocracy beliefs may buffer women from the negative psychological effects of an acute situation of gender discrimination. Although some research indirectly suggests that believing that meritocracy exists may increase wellbeing, group consciousness theories suggest that disbelieving that meritocracy exists will enhance psychological adjustment to gender discrimination....