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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"disbelief"”.
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Selling Disbelief
… and findings used to create the book <em>Selling Disbelief: A 20 Step Guide to Grow and Promote Atheist and Secular Groups</em> (Appendix A). The book <em>Selling Disbelief</em> outlines a six-month marketing plan and best practices for groups that are part of the growing Secular Movement.</p> …
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The suspension of disbelief: the myth of market memories
Although the Efficient Market Hypothesis dismisses the idea that markets have a memory, technical chartists continue to believe that markets can react in similar ways to similar past events. One of the methods of technical analysis commonly used is candlestick charting. The objective of this thesis …
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The Effects of Inducing Disbelief in Free Will on Subsequent Cognitive Performance
… study investigated the effects of inducing disbelief in free will on performance on cognitive tasks involving self-regulation, response inhibition, mind-wandering, and working memory. Self-efficacy was hypothesized to mediate this relationship. Disbelief in free will was induced among …
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THE CORNERSTONE OF A CONSPIRACY: THE ROLE OF HUMAN-WILDLIFE PERCEPTIONS IN THE MASS DISBELIEF IN THE EBOLA VIRUS, NORTHERN SIERRA LEONE
… theories and actively creates distrust and disbelief.
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Exploring the tension between Coleridge's Poetic Faith and disbelief in the metatheatrical strategies used in a Mask, a Key and a Pair of Broken Wings
… Literaria (first published 1817) on disbelief and poetic faith are used to discuss the receptivity of an audience, while Tolkien's concept of the division between the primary and secondary worlds allows the discussion of what the audience perceives. The key distinction between …
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Bridging the Gap: Understanding non-offending parental responses to their children's sexual abuse.
… and the factors that prompt acceptance versus disbelief among the non-offending parent (NOP) is vital to children's success following disclosure given the weight of the NOPs response and its impact on long-term consequences of CSA. This literature review provides a comprehensive summary of what …
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Suspension of Belief
… with a story, a temporary willing suspension of disbelief is necessary to fully connect to the events unfolding. But what happens when this suspension of disbelief is carried over into the everyday; illusory messages being reiterated until they create a foundation for a cultural identity, until …
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Suspension of Belief
… with a story, a temporary willing suspension of disbelief is necessary to fully connect to the events unfolding. But what happens when this suspension of disbelief is carried over into the everyday; illusory messages being reiterated until they create a foundation for a cultural identity, until …
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(Extra)Ordinary evenings in New H(e)aven: the religious element in the poetics of Wallace Stevens
… what it means to be a poet in an age of disbelief. Although Steven’s early poetry suggests that this loss of belief created a sense of crisis in the poet, his later work indicates a full acceptance, even an embracing, of this loss, recognising it as the inspiration for poesis. The thesis …
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Seeing it Straight
… is divided into four main sections:FAITH and DISBELIEF: In which I reckon with the implications of faith versus rationality as a secular nontheistic artist. IDEAS: The central locus of my work is a place of indeterminacy between what is known/familiar and what is just one step outside of that. …
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One Lonely Line
… range from despair and jealousy to anger and disbelief. While the characters and circumstances differ, the pain and alienation of the condition are present in each piece, providing a sort of morbid kinship. </p>
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Credulous Spectatorship from Zeuxis to Barthes
… experience of oscillation between belief and disbelief. I also suggest that these trompe l’oeil deployments of oscillation tend to coincide with historical moments of perceived change in visual technologies—changes due to digitalization, as well as mechanical or other forms of reproduction. …
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The kernel of doubt : agricultural biotechnology, braided temporalities, and agrarian environments in India
… and doubt, of truth and ruse, of promise and disbelief at the same time. Debates were already brewing about the advantages of using transgenic cotton seeds as early as 2003.
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ETHNO-NATIONALISM AND ETHNIC CONFLICTS IN CENTRAL ASIA
… of the Soviet federal system and beheld with disbelief the tragic unfolding of inter-ethnic violence in the land of ‘eternal friendship of brotherly nations’. Their disbelief, though understandable, presents the two puzzles that this dissertation addresses: (1) “how can one explain the …
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The Literary Role of Jews in Qur'anic Exegesis
… too fall into such opprobrious behaviour: kufr (disbelief), kibr (arrogance) and kitmān al-ḥaqq (concealing the truth). The thesis examines how each exegete applies the term to Jews, who these Jews may be, definitions of these terms offered by the exegetes, exegetical comments from different …
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Accepting the Unacceptable: Textual Accessibility in Baum's Oz Books, L'Engle's Time Quartet, and Rowling's Harry Potter Series
… require refers to as a willing suspension of disbelief. Some fantastical works, however, are much more accessible. L. Frank Baum’s Oz book, Madeleine L’Engle’s Time quartet, and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series are accessible to the reader because the protagonists begin their journeys in the …
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Evolving a Genre: Doctor Strange Comics as Post-Fantasy
… postmodern strategies disrupts the suspension of disbelief on which popular fantasy often relies. To show this disruption and its effects, this thesis examines Strange Tales and Doctor Strange (2015) as they relate to the fantastic cornerstones of Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and …
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Montage As A Participatory System: Interactions with the Moving Image
… If the task is not to suspend but encourage disbelief as a condition in the user, how can this be approached as a design problem? In the attempt to build a series of design projects suggesting open architectures for the moving image, might a variety of (pre-digital) precursors from the worlds …
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Changing polarized beliefs using social consensus and moral conviction
… of meaningful public policy (e.g., willful disbelief of climate change). Prior literature on attitude change indicates that one effective way to change belief in general is leveraging the effect of social consensus (people tending to agree with their peers), but previous work has failed to …
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