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Reversible time travel with freedom of choice
General relativity allows for the existence of closed time-like curves, along which a material object could travel back in time and interact w...
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Revisiting the Assessment Context: A Call to Interfaith Assessment
Nearly a decade ago, Alyssa Rockenbach, the editor of the Journal of College & Character’s “Spirituality on Campus” section, issued a call to ...
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Rewarding the good and punishing the bad: The role of karma and afterlife beliefs in shaping moral norms
Moralizing religions encourage people to anticipate supernatural punishments for violating moral norms, even in anonymous interactions. This i...
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Ritual Forms and Ritual Stuff: Implications of Lawson and McCauley's Ritual Form Hypothesis for Material Culture
Abstract Lawson and McCauley's ritual form hypothesis (RFH) appeals to natural cognition to capture several commonly observed features of reli...
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Ritual morphospace revisited: the form, function and factor structure of ritual practice
Human rituals exhibit bewildering diversity, from the Mauritian Kavadi to Catholic communion. Is this diversity infinitely plastic or are ther...
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Project: Understanding Spiritual Intelligence: Psychological, Theological and Computational Approaches
ROWAN WILLIAMS ON ATTENTION AND MEMORY IN THE SPIRITUAL LIFE
Abstract In a series of recent articles, including his Boyle Lecture, Rowan Williams has developed a theology of the role of intelligence and ...
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Safeguarding human–wildlife cooperation
Abstract Human–wildlife cooperation occurs when humans and free‐living wild animals actively coordinate their behavior to achieve a mutually b...
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Scale‐Free Biology: Integrating Evolutionary and Developmental Thinking
Abstract When the history of life on earth is viewed as a history of cell division, all of life becomes a single cell lineage. The growth and ...
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Science and
Abstract Renewed interest in curriculum in English schooling over the past decade has emanated from a particular focus on the place and role o...
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Project: Argumentation in Science and Religious Education: An Interdisciplinary Study in British Schools
Science and Religious Education Teachers’ Views of Argumentation and Its Teaching
Abstract Argumentation, the justification of claims with reasons and/or evidence, has emerged as a significant educational goal in science edu...
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Scientists explain the underrepresentation of women in physics compared to biology in four national contexts
Abstract Women are consistently underrepresented in physics when compared to biology. Yet how scientists themselves explain the causes of this...
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Search and insight processes in card sorting games
Insight problems are particularly interesting, because problems which require restructuring allow researchers to investigate the underpinnings...
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Secondary School Students’ Reasoning About Science and Personhood
Scientific advances, particularly in evolutionary biology, genetics, neuroscience and artificial intelligence, present many challenges to reli...
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Project: Argumentation in Science and Religious Education: An Interdisciplinary Study in British Schools
Secondary teachers’ instructional practices on argumentation in the context of science and religious education
Argumentation is widely recognised as a core practice of science, but the relation between argumentation in the teaching of science in contras...
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Selection versus Socialization? Interrogating the Sources of Secularity in Global Science
Science and secularization have been linked in scholarship and the public imagination. Some suggest that scientific training leads to loss of ...
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Self-Forgiveness Among Incarcerated Individuals in Ghana: Relations With Shame- and Guilt-Proneness
Research on the forgiveness of self has largely focused on less severe, more common types of offenses among samples within developed westerniz...
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Project: The Personal Consequences of Religion: A 20-year Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study
Self–Regulation and Personality Profiles: Empirical Development, Longitudinal Stability and Predictive Ability
We used Latent Profile and Latent Profile Transition Analysis to empirically develop and compare competing models of personality profiles (thr...
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Skill and strategic control
Abstract This paper provides an account of the strategic control involved in skilled action. When I discuss strategic control, I have in mind ...
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Social dilemma cooperation (unlike Dictator Game giving) is intuitive for men as well as women
Does intuition favor prosociality, or does prosocial behavior require deliberative self-control? The Social Heuristics Hypothesis (SHH) stipul...
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Project: Social and Moral Intelligence: How Do Animals Understand and Perceive the Rules of Social Life?
Social integration predicts survival in female white-faced capuchin monkeys
Across multiple species of social mammals, a growing number of studies have found that individual sociality is associated with survival. In lo...
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