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The battle of Mühlberg (23 April 1547) began a brief period of dominance of German affairs by Emperor Charles V. In the wake of his victory, Charles, a zealous Catholic, attempted to undo the effects of the Reformation and bring the church under his control by engineering the Augsburg Interim. This was nominally a Catholic–Protestant compromise, but it was seen by most Protestants as an attempt to lead the “free” German church back into Catholic and Latin “servitude.” This article examines ...

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Current directions in advertising practice point to the use of more spiritual themes in advertising. Yet the concept of spirituality has not received enough attention in advertising research. We argue that spirituality is a crucial dimension in the human experience with theoretical implications for the field of advertising. In this paper, we first define and translate spirituality based on holistic and eclectic approaches so it is suitable for research in advertising. We propose a new theoretical frameworkThe Spirituality in Advertising Framework ...

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In this paper we argue that attachment theory, as developed by John Bowlby and refined and extended by a host of other psychological researchers, offers a potentially powerful theoretical framework for the psychology of religion. A wide range of research findings concerning such topics as images of God, conversion, and prayer can be conceptually integrated within this framework. An exploratory investigation was conducted of the relationship between individual differences in respondents' childhood attachments to their parents and their adult religious beliefs ...

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Consumer choices reflect not only price and quality preferences but also social and moral values, as witnessed in the remarkable growth of the global market for organic and environmentally friendly products. Building on recent research on behavioral priming and moral regulation, we found that mere exposure to green products and the purchase of such products lead to markedly different behavioral consequences. In line with the halo associated with green consumerism, results showed that people act more altruistically after mere exposure to ...

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Frenzied executives who fidget through meetings, lose track of their appointments, and jab at the "door close" button on the elevator aren't crazy--just crazed. They suffer from a newly recognized neurological phenomenon that the author, a psychiatrist, calls attention deficit trait, or ADT. It isn't an illness; it's purely a response to the hyperkinetic environment in which we live. But it has become epidemic in today's organizations. When a manager is desperately trying to deal with more input than he possibly ...

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We propose a theory of religious mobilization that accounts for variations in religious participation on the basis of variations in the degree of regulation of religious economies and consequent variations in their levels of religious competition. To account for the apparent "secularization" of many European nations, we stress supply-side weaknesses -- inefficient religious organizations within highly regulated religious economies -- rather than a lack of individual religious demand. We test the theory with both quantitative and historical data and, based on ...

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Despite reports that homeowners are increasingly “walking away” from their mortgages, most homeowners continue to make their payments even when they are significantly underwater. This article suggests that most homeowners choose not to strategically default as a result of two emotional forces: 1) the desire to avoid the shame and guilt of foreclosure; and 2) exaggerated anxiety over foreclosure’s perceived consequences. Moreover, these emotional constraints are actively cultivated by the government and other social control agents in order to encourage ...

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Another review of my book, mostly favorable, by Joel Harrington.

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This is the first review of my book that i know of in a print journal.

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The lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years by many objective measures, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. This decline in relative well-being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well-being, demographic groups, and industrialized countries. Relative declines in female happiness have eroded a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s reported higher subjective well-being than ...

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On the Danish cartoon controversy of a few years back.

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Statistics point to a in evangelical publications as well as in the practices of evangelical piety in the first half of the nineteenth century. In order to explain these parallel trends, however, mere measurement falls short in adequately addressing the strange power evangelical media institutions assumed during this period. In 1825, for example, the American Tract Society announced its agenda of a directive that applied equally, and simultaneously, to words on the page, to readers on the ground, and to the ...

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<p> What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators. </p><p> The short answer is--it's not what teachers do, it's what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture notes matter less than the special way teachers comprehend the subject and value human learning. Whether historians or physicists, ...

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Despite the abundance of evidence that human perception is penetrated by beliefs and expectations, scientific research so far has entirely neglected the possible impact of religious background on attention. Here we show that Dutch Calvinists and atheists, brought up in the same country and culture and controlled for race, intelligence, sex, and age, differ with respect to the way they attend to and process the global and local features of complex visual stimuli: Calvinists attend less to global aspects of perceived ...

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While religious faith remains one of the most significant features of human life, little is known about its relationship to ordinary belief at the level of the brain. Nor is it known whether religious believers and nonbelievers differ in how they evaluate statements of fact. Our lab previously has used functional neuroimaging to study belief as a general mode of cognition [1], and others have looked specifically at religious belief [2]. However, no research has compared these two states of mind ...

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Referenced in the LA Times health blog -- http://j.mp/12xrox (Sept. 30, 2009)

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Villanova: BL41 .D8313 2003

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ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The children of teen mothers have been reported to have higher rates of several unfavorable mental health outcomes. Past research suggests several possible mechanisms for an association between religiosity and teen birth rate in communities. METHODS: The present study compiled publicly accessible data on birth rates, conservative religious beliefs, income, and abortion rates in the U.S., aggregated at the state level. Data on teen birth rates and abortion originated from the Center for Disease Control; on income, from the ...

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Gary Lease, a controversial figure in the study of religion, was best known throughout his long career for his uncompromising antipathy towards theologically and phenomenologically-oriented approaches to the field. Lease developed his analytic perspective on religion around a set of broad, global assumptions about human nature, the mind, and society. These assumptions lie at the root of those provocative positions which have come to characterize Lease's work. This paper argues that those assumptions, which center primarily on his understanding of human ...

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The site of the crash of United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001 has received considerably less scholarly attention than Ground Zero in New York, but the cultural symbolism and narrative-making being generated there is no less fascinating. In this essay, I examine some of the visual evidence of this cultural work and suggest ways to understand how those images are mobilized culturally and incorporated into narratives about the meaning of the crash. The images discussed here depict the aftermath of ...

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People see themselves as less susceptible to bias than others. We show that a source of this bias blind spot involves the value that people place, and believe they should place, on introspective information (relative to behavioral information) when assessing bias in themselves versus others. Participants considered introspective information more than behavioral information for assessing bias in themselves, but not others. This divergence did not arise simply from differences in introspective access. The blind spot persisted when observers had access to ...

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One of the most curious aspects of the 2004 presidential election was the strength and resilience of the belief among many Americans that Saddam Hussein was linked to the terrorist attacks of September 11. Scholars have suggested that this belief was the result of a campaign of false information and innuendo from the Bush administration. We call this the information environment explanation. Using a technique of "challenge interviews" on a sample of voters who reported believing in a link between Saddam ...

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Extensively summarized at the U of Buffalo news site: buffalo.edu/news/10364

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Villanova: BR1610.K3

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The authors explored psychological mechanisms underlying a teaching exercise [Hillman, J., & Martin, R. A. (2002). Lessons about gay and lesbian lives: A spaceship exercise. Teaching of Psychology, 29 , 308–311] that may improve attitudes toward homosexuals. Heterosexual participants were randomly assigned to a simulation intervention or control lecture condition. In the simulation condition, participants imagined life on an alien planet that inadvertently simulated situational constraints parallel to those faced by homosexuals. The simulation ( vs . control lecture) produced ...

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Summarized fairly extensively at sn.im/qkaaz

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As technology has simplified meeting basic needs, humans have cultivated increasingly psychological avenues for occupying their consumption energies, moving from consuming food to consuming concepts; we propose that consideration of such “conceptual consumption” is essential for understanding human consumption. We first review how four classes of conceptual consumption—consuming expectancies, goals, fluency, and regulatory fit—impact physical consumption. Next, we benchmark the power of conceptual consumption against physical consumption, reviewing research in which people forgo positive physical consumption—and even choose negative physical consumption–in ...

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An interview (by an unnamed editor) with Thomas Römer, formerly of the University of Lausanne, on a bizarre 2003 appeal by George Bush to Jacques Chirac to help him fight "Gog and Magog" in Iraq. Chirac's people consulted with Römer after the conversation with Bush; Römer is a professor of biblical theology (I think). I haven't translated the interview yet. The link leads to a PDF ( bit.ly/14Btbu ). I think this article represents the first appearance of this

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Author contact info: Miles S. Kimball Department of Economics University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220 Tel: 734/764-2375 Fax: 734/764-2769 E-Mail: mkimball@umich.edu Colter M. Mitchell Family Demography Survey Research Center University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1248 E-Mail: cmsm@umich.edu Arland D. Thornton Survey Research Center 2226 ISR, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1248 E-Mail: arlandt@umich.edu Linda C. Young-Demarco Survey Research Center ISR 2270, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109-1248 E-Mail: lyoungdm@umich.edu Early life experiences are likely to be ...

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Background Acupuncture is a popular complementary and alternative treatment for chronic back pain. Recent European trials suggest similar short-term benefits from real and sham acupuncture needling. This trial addresses the importance of needle placement and skin penetration in eliciting acupuncture effects for patients with chronic low back pain. Methods A total of 638 adults with chronic mechanical low back pain were randomized to individualized acupuncture, standardized acupuncture, simulated acupuncture, or usual care. Ten treatments were provided over 7 ...

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A debate between Richard Dawkins and Francis Collins staged by TIME Magazine in 2006.

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In this article I examine the intersection between sexuality and spirit-filled bodies in American Evangelicalism. I am interested in investigating two issues: the sexual body as a site of spiritual battle and the use of popular science, especially the domain of genetics, as material evidence for this spiritual warfare. Specifically, I trace the increasingly spiritualized framing of marital intercourse in evangelical literature. To follow this trajectory, I highlight the spiritualized dangers of transgressive sexuality as well as the sexualizing of spirituality ...

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In last week's ultra-Orthodox riots, the world watched the Jewish state, exhausted by conflict, slowing tearing itself apart. ...

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Have Westerners created a new and viable form of Buddhism, or has something been lost in translation? Berkeley professor Robert Sharf argues that with our emphasis on individual experience and meditation, we risk cutting ourselves off from the benefits of a greater tradition. ...

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doi: 10.1086/340858 PMID: 12145731 The spirochetal infection Lyme disease, although now usually easily diagnosed and treated, has acquired an aura of ambiguity for many laypersons and medical professionals. The existence of controversy makes it difficult for infectious diseases physicians and scientists to readily obtain accurate information on Lyme disease by casually browsing the World Wide Web. Informative and current Web sites on the diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment, and prevention of Lyme disease can be found on‐line, as can clear images of its ...