Paul Auster habitually uses multiple narrative structures in his novels and situates the reader a mesh of narratives which neither real narrator is discerned nor protagonist’s identity distinguishable. In Man Dark, two dystopic lines novel with undistinguished characters’ to question credulity grand-narrative. Lyotard’s theory postmodernism, grand questioned since it disregards different voices...

The present research examines the relationship between populist attitudes—that construe society as a struggle “corrupt elites” versus “noble people”—and beliefs in unsubstantiated epistemic claims. We specifically sought to assess often assumed link conspiracy and attitudes; moreover, we examined if attitudes predict particular, or rather, credulity of claims general. Study 1 revealed that are ...

Introduction: Incredible tales of medical hoaxes associated with virgin births have been recounted through history. Some reports exist wartime gunshot testicular injuries that caused pregnancy in a second bullet victim. This paper sought to identify the sources and circumstances such how similar legends appear be perpetuated historical lore. Sources: Medical journals, contemporary newspaper acc...

Introduction. Understanding the peculiarities of determination behavior individuals, in particular, security workers, conflict situations by their individual characteristics, can significantly help organizational psychologists, specialists personnel work during selection and placement according to areas, forecasting, resolution prevention conflicts at workplace, increase overall efficiency firm...

The amount of scientific knowledge from randomized parallel group trials have been improved by the CONSORT Guideline, but important intelligence with important clinical implications remains to be extracted. This may though be obtained if the conventional statistical significance testing is supplied by 1) Addition of an unbiased and reproducible quantification of the magnitude or size of the cli...

In this paper, we introduce a notion of “epistemic action” to describe changes in the information states of the players in a game. For this, we use ideas that we have developed in our previous papers [BMS], [BMS2] and [B], enriching them to cover, not just purely epistemic actions, but also fact-changing actions (“real moves”, e.g. choosing a card, exchanging cards etc.) and nondeterministic ac...

Young children readily act on information from adults, setting aside their own prior convictions and even continuing to trust informants who make claims that are manifestly false. Such credulity is consistent with a long-standing philosophical and scientific conception of young children as prone to indiscriminate trust. Against this conception, we argue that children trust some informants more ...

Far more general than upon most subjects has been the agreement reached by competent thinkers that Science is essentially a method of investigation. Of course there have been, and there are today, a number of alternative investigatory methods olther than that of Science, just as there are entirely legitimate logics other than that of the syllogism. But Science today is by far the most publicize...

Why is it so easy to ignore the ecological and economic crises of the Anthropocene? This article unveils some of the religious biases whose covert operation facilitates the repression or rejection of warnings about the consequences of extreme climate change and excessive capitalist consumption. The evolved defaults that are most relevant for our purposes here have to do with mental credulity to...