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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Property transmission: an explanatory account of the role of similarity information in causal inference.

30 Aug 2009 Many kinds of common and easily observed causal relations exhibit property transmission, which is a tendency for the causal object to impose its own properties on the effect object. It is proposed that property transmission becomes a general and ... Read more...

Strange, incredible and impossible things: the early anthropology of Reginald Scot.

30 May 2009 Reginald Scot has been acclaimed as an early rationalist for his critical consideration of witchcraft in 1584. At the same time, the Discoverie of Witchcraft appears organized much as later classic anthropological monographs. This article considers ... Read more...

Community management of intellectual disabilities in Pakistan: a mixed methods study.

30 May 2009 BACKGROUND: Pakistan has one of the highest reported rates of childhood intellectual disabilities (ID) in the world. Prevalence estimates vary from 19.1/1000 for serious ID to 65/1000 for mild ID. METHODS: We surveyed carers of persons with ID (n = ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Magic'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Property transmission: an explanatory account of the role of similarity information in causal inference. 30 Aug 2009
• Mass possession state in a family setting. 30 May 2009
• Strange, incredible and impossible things: the early anthropology of Reginald Scot. 30 May 2009
• Community management of intellectual disabilities in Pakistan: a mixed methods study. 30 May 2009
• Emotional salience, emotional awareness, peculiar beliefs, and magical thinking. 30 Mar 2009
• 40 plus or minus 10, a new magical number: reply to Russell. 29 Mar 2009
• [The tradition of healing with magical spells as seen in Buddhist texts] 27 Feb 2009
• [Little histories of magnetic cures] 30 Jan 2009
• Blue luminescence and superstructures from magic size clusters of CdSe. 30 Jan 2009
• More attention and greater awareness in the scientific study of magic. 27 Jan 2009
• The use of magical plants by curanderos in the Ecuador highlands. 20 Jan 2009
• A late-medieval crisis of superstition? 30 Dec 2008
• "The Root is Hidden and the Material Uncertain": the challenges of prosecuting witchcraft in early modern Venice. 30 Dec 2008
• Voodoo death. 30 Dec 2008
• Why bother with god? 30 Dec 2008
• Imaging the impossible: an fMRI study of impossible causal relationships in magic tricks. 29 Dec 2008
• Aborting and suspending pregnancy in rural Tanzania: an ethnography of young people's beliefs and practices. 29 Nov 2008
• Ramadan fasting triggering koro-like symptoms during acute alcohol withdrawal: a case report from Oman. 29 Nov 2008
• Magic and the brain. 29 Nov 2008
• The art of healing in ancient Egypt: a scientific reappraisal. 20 Nov 2008

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Technical information about 'Magic'

Definition: Beliefs and practices concerned with producing desired results through supernatural forces or agents as with the manipulation of fetishes or rituals.

Descriptor UI: D008273

Alternative terms: Magic; Magics;

Allowable Qualifiers: history; psychology;

Tree Number: E02.190.901.411; I01.076.201.450.897.439;

Technical Notes: IM; consider also WITCHCRAFT