People do not always take action to promote health, engaging instead in unhealthy habits and reporting fatalism about health. One important mechanism underlying these patterns involves identity-based motivation (D. Oyserman, 2007), the process by which content of social identities influences beliefs about in-group goals and strategies. Seven studies show the effect of identity-based motivation ...

aims: fatalistic employees take serious risks because they have limited knowledge of risks and accidents, leading them to under estimate the possibility of their occurrence. this research examined the effectiveness of safety training on changing employees’ fatalism with attention to the mediating role of attitude toward safety issues. methods: 204 employees was selected according to the stratif...

Cancer fatalism, which can be understood as the belief that cancer is a death sentence, has been found to be a deterrent to preventive cancer screening participation. This study examines factors associated with breast cancer fatalism among women. We analyzed data from a 2003 survey of women 40 years of age. The survey collected information about respondents' knowledge and attitudes regarding br...

African Americans have higher colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality rates. Research suggests that CRC screening interventions targeting African Americans be based upon cultural dimensions. Secondary analysis of data from African-Americans who were not up-to-date with CRC screening (n=817) was conducted to examine: 1) relationships among cultural factors (i.e., provider trust, cancer fatalism, healt...

O ne of the most important concepts in public health today is that many cancers are avoidable through exercise, eating right, and not smoking. What’s more, death rates for the 10 most common cancers have declined steadily, reflecting treatment advances. But even so, millions of people hold fatalistic views on cancer. Fatalism has been shown repeatedly to thwart screening and treatment; those wh...

Joseph Diekemper Introduction One of the reasons that A-Theorists about time offer for rejecting the static B-Theory is that it cannot account for our experience of temporal becoming. They take this experience as evidence of a fundamental and objective feature of reality; and there has, of course, been a great deal of discussion and debate between Aand B-Theorists as to whether temporal experie...

What has sometimes been called the ‘standard’ argument for fatalism never achieved the critical popularity of Richard Taylor’s (1962) infamous argument. But it has enjoyed far greater longevity. In De Fato Cicero (1960) tells us it was known in ancient Greece as the ‘idle argument’, for it purports to show the futility of attempting to control one’s fate and, hence, those persuaded by it could ...