The aim is to assess the effect of imprisonment on rape myth acceptance. The research used a sample of male prisoners incarcerated for non-sexual crimes (n = 98) and a sample of males drawn from the general population (n = 160). Simple linear regression did not indicate a significant effect of incarceration on rape myth acceptance. After controlling for background covariates using propensity sc...

Truth or myth is seldom encountered in the practice of surgery, especially in cases of breast diseases. Yet, even after thousands of years of treating breast disease by surgeons/healers, fibroadenoma in the male breast seems to be a myth, due to the absence of fibro-glandular tissue. We wish to break this myth by our own experience as well as other studies by others all over the world, and unve...

abstract: myth is as old as mankind; it has transformed and lasted in the form of stories, and anecdotes, together with literary and artistic works. one cannot ignore the presence of myths in culture, literature and art (especially cinema) every era ranging from the age of aeschylus, euripides and aristophanes to the contemporary age of cinema has a firm attachment with myth- of all historical ...

The schizophrenia myth 7 February 2007 Richard P Bentall, Professor of Experimental Clinical Psychology University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, Peter Kinderman, Carmelo Vázquez Send response to journal: Re: The schizophrenia myth In their editorial defending the ‘schizophrenia’ concept, apparently sparked by a press conference at which one of us participated, Professors Lieb...

Posthumanism is a myth. This does not mean to say that it constitutes a narrative devoid of any foundation, inspired by mere fantasy, far from it. The myth, as shown by Ries, Eliade and Lévi Strauss on several occasions, is based on something real and true, and appeals to conceptual structures that keep it away from a mere scientific report: having had to do with the essence of things, it does ...

the domain of the study of myths and its evaluation in literary criticism has always been in the process of development. however, myth critics sometimes put theme, symbol, and motive into one structure so that what is considered as a theme in one case can considered as a myth, in another. nevertheless, there is a vast difference between these words, atlthough there is no consensus among the cri...

Due to the lack of a suitable measure of psychopathy to be used with Polish participants, the focus of the first empirical chapter was to translate the SelfReport Psychopathy Scale (SRP-III) into Polish with the aim to test construct validity and dimensionality, incremental validity, and composite reliability of the measure in a sample of working adults (N = 319). Confirmatory factor analyses r...

Misrepresentation of carbohydrate for exercise: 'It is time to bust the myth of physical inactivity and obesity: you cannot outrun a bad diet'Misrepresentation of carbohydrate for exercise: 'It is time to bust the myth of physical inactivity and obesity: you cannot outrun a bad diet'" (2015).

The ideologic construct referred to as the myth of racial democracy continues to constitute the central framework for understanding the “racial commonsense” in Brazil (Warren 2002; Winant 2001), as well as in much of Latin America (de la Fuente 2002; Wade 1997). The dominant trend in Brazilianist literature faults this construct for masking racism (Guimarães 2001; Winant 1999), discouraging pos...