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Conrod, Heidi Jill. "Magical Thinking." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35202.

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In Magical Thinking, Heidi Conrod explores through the act of painting, the depiction of mental states through the cautious release and withholding of visual, conceptual, and autobiographical cues. Reflecting on the nature of memory and time and the fluid ways in which these seemingly immaterial phenomena interact, the paintings represent multiple visions within one viewing experience; commenting not only on the surface of things, but also on what may lie hidden beneath. The works are best understood through introspection rather than a forced rationale. These paintings are intended to rea

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Martell, Diane. "Magical thinking in counselling psychology." Thesis, Regent's University London, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.698148.

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Aim. This thesis explores how magical thinking is construed by counselling psychologists working in independent practice in Britain. It considers how magical thinking within counselling psychologists relates to working therapeutically with clients who engage in magical thinking. Background. Magical thinking has been widely researched by a number of disciplines. This includes some applied fields of psychology, but not counselling psychology. Method. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted in Britain between July 2011 and February 2012. The purposive sample consisted of eight voluntee

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Percival, Rebecca. "Magical thinking in obsessive-compulsive disorder." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26843.

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This study investigated the role of magical thinking in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Magical thinking was defined as the belief that having a thought may actually cause or increase the likelihood of an event happening to self or others. Cognitive and psychoanalytic models of OCD (Salkovskis, 1985; McFall and Wollersheim, 1979; Freud, 1909) have hypothesised that magical thinking or a sense of inflated personal influence may play a significant part in the phenomenology of OCD. Other authors such as Tallis (1995) have suggested how a sense of inflated personal influence might lead to the

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Johnston, Linda A. (Linda Ann) Carleton University Dissertation Psychology. "The use of the magical ideation scale to measure magical thinking." Ottawa, 1991.

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Keeling, Charlotte. "What is the role of magical thinking in OCD? : is magical thinking a function of perceived threat?" Thesis, University of Southampton, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442810.

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Barkataki, Bristi. "Magical Thinking: How Important Is It in Explaining Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms? A Transcultural Exploration of Magical Thinking and OCD in India and Australia." Thesis, Curtin University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76184.

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This PhD is a mixed-method project of four interrelated studies that explores the importance of magical thinking in explaining obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms with a transcultural perspective, between India (holistic-thinking culture) and Australia (analytic-thinking culture). Findings position magical thinking as a unique and important construct implicated in the pathogenesis of OC symptoms. It adds a new facet to the existing cognitive dysfunction model of OCD and warrants more attention, for both theoretical and clinical advancement.

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Elkind, Sharon. "Stand Alone Cosplay." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18715.

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Cosplay, the costumed performance of characters sourced from Japanese popular culture, has become an international phenomenon. Today there are Cosplay events held on every permanently inhabited continent, but there has been limited academic research into Cosplay practice and culture on the national level (Brainbridge and Norris 2009, Brainbridge and Norris 2013, Galbraith 2012, King 2013, Langsford 2014, Sagardia 2017) and no prior international comparative studies between Australia and the United States. This volume focuses on a comparative statistical and ethnographic analysis of Cosplayers

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Coysh, Claire. "Investigation of the relationships between thought fusion, magical thinking, and anxiety in young people." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.540732.

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Carper, Teresa. "THE EFFECTS OF PSYCHOEDUCATION ON THOUGHT-ACTION FUSION, THOUGHT SUPPRESSION, MAGICAL THINKING, AND RESPONSIBILITY." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3718.

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Thought-action fusion (TAF) is the phenomenon whereby one has difficulty separating cognitions, particularly those that are intrusive and disturbing, from their corresponding behaviors. Recent work has suggested that TAF is malleable and amenable to change. The current study examined the effects of three different psychoeducational interventions on thought-action fusion, anxiety, thought suppression, magical thinking, and responsibility cognitions. Assessments were conducted both immediately following the interventions and after a two-week period. Results indicated that individuals who receive

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Easton, Elizabeth. "Things That Go Bump in the Night: An Examination of Magical Thinking in Young Children." TopSCHOLAR®, 1995. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/906.

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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 study, a replication-extension of P. Harris, E. Brown, C. Marriott, S. Whittall, and S. Harmer (1991), the researcher examined children's perceptions of imaginary creatures through a brief interview. Children were asked to pretend there existed either a monster or a rabbit in one of two large boxes. Ch

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Bocci, Laura. "The association of magical thinking and obsessive-compulsive disorder : an experimental investigation of neutralising behaviour." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.412265.

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Carper, Teresa Lynn. "The effects of psychoeducation on thought-action fusion, thought supression [sic], magical thinking, and responsibility." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002691.

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Tylke, Lynne K. "The use of magical thinking as a mediator of stress in parents of children with cancer." Click here for text online. The Institute of Clinical Social Work Dissertations website, 1992. http://www.icsw.edu/_dissertations/tylke_1992.pdf.

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Dissertation (Ph.D.) -- The Institute for Clinical Social Work, 1992.<br>A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Institute of Clinical Social Work in partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

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Elliot, Johan. "The relationship between Magical Thinking, Thought-Shaped Fusion and Symptoms Associated with Eating Difficulties in a Non-Clinical Population." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.507049.

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Braun, Stacy. "Exercise Can Be Bad For Your Health? Models Of Obligatory Exercise In Males And Females." OpenSIUC, 2008. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/22.

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The current study examined the relations among internalization 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 models proposed were supported or partially supported. The first model demonstrated mediation and moderation; at low levels of magical thinking, eating disorder attitudes and behaviors fully mediated the relation between internalization of so

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Fite, Robert E. "Addressing the Specificity of Thought-Action Fusion to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Delineating the Role of Magical Thinking, Sensitive Self Domains, and Thought Content." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1540421000690752.

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Farias, Miguel. "A psychological study of New Age practices and beliefs." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:eae25fc5-1644-44f6-8f3c-8f25e5707d22.

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This thesis consists of a study of the motivational, cognitive and personality implications of adherence to New Age practices and beliefs. The New Age, unlike traditional Western religion, possesses no church-like structure and is usually characterised as a loose network of self-development practices, with a belief system centred on the spiritual evolution of the individual through successive reincarnations and the idea of a magical interconnectedness between all things. The studies carried out used a series of psychological measures, including self-report scales, analysis of self-concepts, au

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Barbosa, Gilberto Porto. "Do magic thinking para o adult thinking: a influência das especificidades da gestão pública na implementação da gestão de projetos." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/14591.

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Bavlnka, Timothy. "Superheroes and Shamanism: Magic and Participation in the Comics of Grant Morrison." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1302288940.

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Velloso, Leandro Manuel Reis. "O espaço nos videogames: dentro e fora do círculo mágico." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16134/tde-09062017-112358/.

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Exploramos aspectos da espacialidade nos videogames, aplicando o conceito de círculo mágico como abordado por Johan Huizinga, refletindo sobre a experiência da imersão e da observação externa. Empregamos, como objeto do pensamento, ferramentas provenientes da teoria dos games, geometria, semiótica, fenomenologia, psicologia, informática e pós-estruturalismo. Observamos a estrutura triádica na percepção do jogador alicerçada sobre três categorias espaciais: físico-tátil, imagético- narrativa e intencional. Levantamos informações relativas aos sistemas de objetos próprios dos jogos eletrô

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Catalán, Alberto, and Frida Gidlöf. "Exploring the Use of Augmented Reality in the Experience Industry : A Study on Technological Innovation through Prototyping." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Industriell teknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-355048.

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This master thesis is a case study, in the experience industry, of prototypes in the early stage of the innovation process – the front end of innovation. The innovation is augmented reality (AR) that adds digital made graphics or information in the user's environment. To answer the research questions and to fulfill the purpose of this thesis, which is to gain an understanding of the role of a prototype in an innovation process, a prototype was created. The designing tools used for developing the prototype were brainstorming and storyboarding. The prototype presents a concept of using AR-glasse

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Earls, Alison. "Genuine cherry red : a fiction novel." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003.

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"Genuine Cherry Red" is a fiction novel. It is the story of three people who live in a house beside a hill in the flattest place on earth - an almost fable-like setting. In different ways, each is locked inside the order and control they have constructed through the years. Surrounded by nature and its reliable cycle, they are resisting change and denying the unpredictable randomness of life. Marta is a young woman who is both intelligent and naïve, caught inside a private maze of thinking and rethinking. She lives with her mother's cousin Ena who gave up nursing to take Marta in when her mo

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Favila, Marina Christi. "Magical thinking in Shakespeare's tragedies." 1995. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9541103.

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Put simply, magical thinking is the belief that one may affect reality by thought alone. Where Freud classifies such a concept as neurotic delusion, Winnicott embraces the idea as a memory from infancy and argues that "omnipotence of thoughts" is the origin of creativity. Both viewpoints are represented in Shakespeare's universe, their positions sometimes at war in the playing out of the hero's dilemma. This dissertation traces the idea of magical thinking through psychoanalysis, anthropology, and art, then explores the battle of thoughts in Shakespeare's tragedies. Freud's viewpoint is well-f

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St-James, Yannik. "Expanding the Realm of Possibility: Magical Thinking and Consumer Coping." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/715.

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This dissertation examines how consumers cope with stress and, specifically, the role of magical thinking in consumer coping. Magical thinking is defined here as creating or invoking ‘extraordinary’ connections – symbolic relationships founded on a belief or intuition in the presence of mystical forces in the world – in order to understand, predict, or influence events. Previous research in the field of psychology has largely depicted magical thinking as a cognitive distortion or fallacious reasoning that emerges in stressful situations due to limited information-processing capacity or to pr

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Kemp, David. "The scientific revolution's axiomatic rejection of magical thinking : the case of astrology in England (1600-1700)." Thesis, 2003. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/2327/1/MQ85276.pdf.

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The research presented here will cover the changing perceptions of astrology over the course of the seventeenth century from the height of its popularity to its extinction, with special attention to the non-empirical motivations behind its dismissal by the scientific community. It is the main thesis of this paper that astrology was rejected by the scientific community of the seventeenth century on non-empirical grounds. This will be shown through an examination of the rhetoric of the leading members of the seventeenth-century English scientific community. It would appear from the rhetoric of t

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Kadrnožková, Lucie. "Test magického myšlení." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-350607.

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This M.A. thesis deals with the topic of magical thinking in the adult population. The theoretical section of the thesis summarizes the existing findings in regard to the theory and research of magical thinking. The empirical section is dedicated to the development and subsequent validation of the new testing method devised to measure inclinations to magical thinking. Proving the method's validity is firstly aimed at gathering convergent proofs based on the relations towards methods measuring similar constructs, the external criterion being the Revised Paranormal Belief Scale (RPBS) and the su

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Martinho, Sara Oliveira Quintela. "O pensamento mágico nas decisões dos vegetarianos: comer ou não comer alimentos associados a carne." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/11636.

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O presente estudo qualitativo visa compreender as motivações subjacentes às escolhas alimentares dos vegetarianos. Mais concretamente, procura avaliar se o pensamento mágico (sob a forma de princípios de contaminação e de semelhança) influencia a decisão dos vegetarianos de não comer alimentos associados a carne ou alimentos que podem ser considerados como “impuros”. Procura ainda verificar se existem diferenças a este nível entre vegetarianos por questões morais e vegetarianos por questões de saúde. Foram realizadas trinta e cinco entrevistas (catorze a vegetarianos por questões morais, cator

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Huang, Yu-hsin, and 黃鈺心. "The Study of the Preparation for Chemical Magic : Instant Snow, Magic Sand, and Magnetic Thinking Putty." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86821845718724732366.

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碩士<br>國立臺中教育大學<br>科學應用與推廣學系科學教育碩士班<br>101<br>Abstract Applying chemical magic in teaching could attract students’ curiosity, motivate the interesting in science learning, help students to construct their conceptions of science actively, and develop the problem solving ability. This study focused on preparing the material of chemical magic including “Instant Snow”, “Magic Sand”, and “Magnetic Thinking Putty.” Those materials could be a resource in science teaching. The results were concluded below: 1. "Instant Snow": (a) sodium bicarbonate had expansion effect on adding the mixture of commerc

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Pěničková, Barbora. "Využití japonských hlavolamů ve výuce matematiky na 1. stupni základní školy." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-307913.

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This diploma thesis deals with Japanese puzzles and their use in teaching mathematics at primary school. Its main aim is to verify if it is possible for the pupils to achieve comparable results with older pupils and adult Sudoku solvers supposing that these learners are systematically guided through an escalating set of Sudoku puzzles. The theoretical part of the thesis is focused on the history of Sudoku, several strategies of its solving, other examples of Japanese puzzles and also on Sudoku in the context of its use at school. The practical part describes a series of experiments with pupils

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Richards, Isabel. "Science communication through animistic magic in Aboriginal Australian sci-fi texts." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/256626.

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Fiction is a powerful tool for science communication. Sci-fi, a particularly influential fiction genre, can shape people’s understanding and perceptions of science. Most science communication research pertaining to the meaning-making of science in fiction and in sci-fi has focused on texts written by Western authors – and thus reflect Western meanings of science and visions of the future. To obtain a more comprehensive and culturally inclusive understanding of science communication in fiction, it is important to study how sci-fi written by Indigenous peoples depicts science and conveys its mea

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Выстороп, А. О., та A. O. Vystorop. "Русские и японские волшебные сказки: сравнительный анализ : магистерская диссертация". Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10995/56078.

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This final qualification work is devoted to a comparative analysis of Russian and Japanese fairy tales (tales of magic), the purpose of which is to identify the similarities and differences that exist between them.Comparative analysis is based on the methodology of the Russian folklorist V. Ya. Propp, which allows to make a comprehensive research of the inner structure of fairy tales. In the course of the comparative analysis, the main attention is paid to studying the influence of archaic social and ritual institutions on the origin and formation of the main plots and motifs of Russian and Ja

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