Magicians often rely on misdirection to fool their audience. A common way to achieve this is for the magician to provide a plausible and intuitive (but false) account of how an effect is performed in order to prevent spectators from uncovering the truth. We hypothesized that analytical thinkers would be more likely than intuitive thinkers to seek alternative explanations when observing a mental...

One of the most underrated social dangers of the AIDS pandemic in developing countries is that the risk currently inherent in breastfeeding may cause it to go ‘out of fashion’, even among HIV-negative mothers. Professor Jerry Coovadia From questionnaires sent out, her province had identified 1 300 health care workers who potentially need dispensing licences but this number was being ‘carefully ...

In modern society, there are various discourses about folk healing. According to science, especially from the point of view academic medicine, medicine (healing) is a practice that does not correspond treatment protocol. Folk healing affects only emotional state patient, is, self-deception. Although, oriental teaches some traditional practices. From Islam, person who have medical education righ...

The purpose of the article is to examine, on basis field ethnographic materials collected by authors in Tyumen, Omsk and Novosibirsk regions during a number seasons, relics shamanism preserved folk medicine Siberian Tatars. relevance study related poor knowledge this issue. object pre–Islamic beliefs Tatars, including categories shamans (imce, kuremce, sihyrce, kotsle mullah, etc.). subject the...

We provide axiomatic foundations for a simple model of play in prisoners’ dilemma games. The model accommodates cooperation and suggests that players behave as if their expectations about their opponents’ behavior vary with their own choice. We refer to this nonstandard updating as magical thinking. The degree to which players exhibit magical thinking may be heterogeneous in the population and ...

Ailments afflicting wizarding folk are underreported in the muggle world. The recent integration of muggles and magical folk with the return of You-Know-Who (aka He Who Must Not Be Named) may result in a similar affliction of inhabitants of both worlds. We describe interesting maladies afflicting muggles and wizarding folk alike, arising from the use and misuse of magic. We also provide a basic...

Whereas some have asserted that the early Royal Society actively sought to discredit magical beliefs, others have seen ideas of this kind as integral to the Society's 'nature' in its early years. This paper argues that, whatever the magical commitments of individual Fellows, the Society's corporate policy simply sidelined such pursuits. Yet, insofar as the result was that magic was excluded by ...

There are cultures in which people believe that some objects have magical powers; anthropologists call these objects fetishes. In our society, statistics are a sort of fetish. . Statistics direct our concern; they show us what we ought to worry about and how much we ought to worry. In a sense, the social problem becomes the statistic and, because we treat statistics as true and incontrovertible...

Introduction There is general consensus that randomised clinical trial (RCT) can provide the most valid conclusions about effects of different treatment as eligible patients are randomly allocated into two or more alternative treatments. Trials using non-randomised comparison groups like historical controls tend to yield more optimistic results than randomised trials. It is believed that random...

The present study aimed to examine the determinants of using alternative treatment plans in different types of problems by different educated professionals to facilitate in formulating the appropriate marketing strategies of the most important emergency product- Medicare service providers. This paper attempted to find out the attitudes and behavior of educated professionals in adopting differen...