A Sage of the Golden Age of Safed: Rabbi Moses Najara

Jewish History - Many studies have been devoted to the prominent scholars who lived in Safed, such as R. Joseph Karo and R. Isaac Luria, but these figures were exceptional and do...     

Psychological Distress Among a Tunisian Community Sample During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Correlations with Religious Coping

Journal of Religion and Health - Despite advances in medicine and technology, when facing epidemics people continue to turn to religion to deal with such unpredictable...     

Selfless self-transcendence in the clinical setting as a source of self-enhancement

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - This paper examines the paradox of Selfless–Self-Transcendence, that is, how the self is enriched through...     

Self supporting evidence

Philosophical Studies - Jessica Brown argues against infallibilist views of knowledge as follows. (1) Infallibilism is committed to the sufficiency of knowledge for...     

Unmarried Black Women’s Sexual Socialization: The Role of Dating,Motherhood, and Intimate Partner Violence Across Media Types

Sex Roles - The terms single and singlehood conflate marital (e.g. divorced, widowed, and never married) and relationship (e.g. partnered or not) statuses, complicating...     

The role of prior knowledge and curiosity in learning

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review - Recent work has argued that curiosity can improve learning. However, these studies also leave open the possibility that being on the verge of...     

The Use of Islamic Patterned Art Therapy: Healing of Psychological Problems Among University Students

Journal of Religion and Health - This study was designed to adopt art therapy from an Islamic perspective by adding/including shapes and designs of Islamic origin. This was...     

Thirty years of great ape gestures

Animal Cognition - We and our colleagues have been doing studies of great ape gestural communication for more than 30 years. Here we attempt to spell out what we have learned. Some aspects...     

Spiritual Needs of the Muslim Elderly Living in Nursing Homes: A Qualitative Study

Journal of Religion and Health - Paying attention to and meeting the needs of people who are elderly helps to improve their health. Caring for the elderly includes addressing...     

Religiosity and the Spread of COVID-19: A Multinational Comparison

Journal of Religion and Health - This article considers the relationships between population religiosity and the coronavirus pandemic situation across different countries....     

Does stress run through the leash? An examination of stress transmission between owners and dogs during a walk

Animal Cognition - Humans and dogs have co-evolved for over 10,000 years. Recent research suggests that, through the domestication process, dogs have become proficient at responding to...     

Neuropsychological Impact of Trauma-Related Mental Illnesses: A Systematic Review of Clinically Meaningful Results

Neuropsychology Review - A trauma history is present in approximately 90% of adults in the United States. Comparatively, lifetime post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) prevalence...     

Preventing conscientious objection in medicine from running amok: a defense of reasonable accommodation

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - A US Department of Health and Human Services Final Rule, Protecting Statutory Conscience Rights in Health Care (2019), and a...     

Maddy vs. Quine on Innate Concepts. Revisiting a Perennial Debate in Light of Recent Empirical Results

Philosophia - This article critically assesses the empirical research that leads Quine, in his posthumously published work, to abandon his empiricist principle that humans do not have any...     

Intercessory Rote Prayer,Life Longevity and the Mortality of Roman Catholic Bishops: An Exploratory Study

Journal of Religion and Health - Based on a computational analysis of a large dataset, this study explores if there is a significant longevity effect of intercessory prayer for a...     

Rabbi Isaac of Rus’ and His Esoteric Teachings

Jewish History - The paper focuses on the enigmatic thirteenth-century figure of R. Isaac of Rus’. A case study in the reconstruction of early East European Jewish history,...     

Aim-Oriented Empiricism and the Metaphysics of Science

Philosophia - Over 40 years ago, I put forward a philosophy of science based on the argument that physics, in only ever accepting unified theories, thereby makes a substantial...     

Gender Discrepancies in Perceptions of the Bodies of Female Fashion Models

Sex Roles - For over 30 years, researchers and journalists have made the claim that men do not prefer the level of thinness typically embodied by female fashion models, along with the...     

Measurement of Feminist Identity and Attitudes Over the Past Half Century: A Critical Review and Call for Further Research

Sex Roles - The study of feminism has had a long and complicated history in psychological research over the past half century. Although a number of instruments have been designed to assess...