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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"magical thinking"”.
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Things That Go Bump in the Night: An Examination of Magical Thinking in Young Children
<p>Past research has shown that children as young as age 3 years are able to distinguish the difference between mental entities and real objects (Estes, Wellman, & Woolley, 1989). Yet, many children still display persistent fears of imaginary creatures, which they claim are not real. In the present …
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Exercise Can Be Bad For Your Health? Models Of Obligatory Exercise In Males And Females
… of sociocultural attitudes towards appearance, magical thinking, muscle dysmorphia, and eating disorder symptoms in models of obligatory exercise for males and females. The results indicated that several different developmental trajectories exist that vary from person to person. Several of the …
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Inevitable magic – reason, magic and manipulation
Magical thinking occurs when supernatural causes, as opposed to rational ones, are assumed in events that defy reasonable probability. To investigate magical thinking, 64 adults were tested in a novel experiment where they were told they were playing an online game with opposing players. However, …
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The stories we tell ourselves: Joan Didion on the romantic fantasies of reality
… Towards Bethlehem (1968) and The Year of Magical Thinking (2005). I propose that a reading of these romantic fantasies is dependent on the distinction between “romantic” (lower case) and “Romantic” (capitalized). While Didion explores “romantic” fantasies of contemporary American existence …
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Adaptación y validación de la escala de pensamiento mágico de moral (EPM23) en adultos estudiantes y de nivel de educación superior de Lima Metropolitana
Magical thinking (MT) accounts for a way of reasoning divorced from the scientific laws of causality and of transmission of information that are culturally accepted, and that is related to various psychopathological conditions. There is an absence of psychometric instruments developed for the …
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Psychopathological symptoms and their relation to paranormal belief and illusory judgment
… with a body of literature that suggests atypical thinking as a commonality among people reporting psychopathology symptoms and paranormal and other types of magical thinking.</p>
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Finding my therapeutic voice: a heuristic enquiry into the power of magic
… a therapist uses their internal landscape as a magical tool in deciphering their development and what they have experienced within their personal lives. This either aids or inhibits their psychotherapeutic development. In an attempt to address this gap within the field, a heuristic research …
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"That Weeping Constellation": Navigating Loss in Women's Memoirs of Textured Recovery.
… (Gail Jones 149). In Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, she laments the absence of any significant body of literature that will help her through her grief. I propose that the grief memoir---a term new enough not to have been included in Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson's 52 genres of life …
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An experimental manipulation of thought-action fusion in children: investigating obsessive compulsive features.
… condition. Baseline measures of TAF, magical thinking, responsibility and anxiety were completed. Children were asked to wear a helmet and attempt to turn computer-screen images red using their thoughts. Children in the experimental group were shown images that turned redder while …
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Pour une lecture de "l'enfantin" chez Cocteau, Fitzgerald, Kafka, Saint-Exupéry et Vian
… for another. I show how this type of almost magical thinking that Piaget calls “symbolic thought” appears in the “récit”. In the final section of my thesis, I study areas in the story where the reader finds himself in a “between” position, unable to establish whether what he is reading is …
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Schizotypy: A Multi-Country Study of Psychometrics, Socio-Cultural Influences, Cognitive Processes, and Electrophysiological Markers
… included as a prima facie outcome of disordered thinking. A follow-up study showed that analytic thinking mediated the relationship between Odd Beliefs or Magical Thinking (but not Ideas of Reference) and belief in conspiracy theories. Study 5 investigated whether a combination of high …
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Demetrius Johnson and the Weep of the World: A Novel
… In Between, where Dee discovers the lie and magical thinking embedded in Meraux’s promise. Building upon the work of scholar Marta Bladek and writer Joan Didion, I render grief as a fantasy setting on macro and micro levels. First, grief’s spatiality is rendered as the larger invented fantasy …
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Autobiographical Poetry to Plays: Taking Memoir to a Theatrical Level
… and Joan Didion, who wrote The Year of Magical Thinking. Bechdel’s text focuses primarily on her homosexuality and her father’s closeted sexuality, which led to his suicide. Didion’s novel is an account of her grieving the sudden death of her husband, as well as coping with the critical …