Clinical Holistic Medicine: A Psychological Theory of Dependency to Improve Quality of Life by Søren Ventegodt, Mohammed Morad, Isack Kandel, Joav Merrick

“…The patient must find hidden resources to take action, then in therapy confront and feel old emotional pain, understand the source and inner logic of it, and finally learn to let go of negative attitudes and beliefs. In this way, the person can be healed and released of the emotional suffering and no longer be a slave to the dependency pattern.…”
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Operationalizing transformative capacity: State policy and the financing of sustainable energy transitions in developing countries by Amanda-Leigh O'Connell, Johan Schot

“…Critically, the findings support transition scholars who advocate for experimental policy engagements by offering opportunities to challenge fundamental values, norms, beliefs, and cognitive models.…”
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Clarifying some complications in Khaghani’s poems in the framework of linguistic interference by Heydar Ebrahimi, Jamileh Akhyani, Moharram Eslami, Hossein Bakhshi

“…It also includes the presence of regional beliefs and cultural characteristics in the speaker's speech and writing in second language. …”
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Efikasi Diri dan Kesiapsiagaan Perawat Rumah Sakit terhadap Bencana by Ferdy Lainsamputty, I Gede Purnawinadi, Raden Bagus Edy Santoso, Vidya Angeline Babu

“…Consistency of nurses' beliefs in facing challenges and difficulties related to disasters needs to be maintained, but it is also necessary to improve the ability to get more ideas in solving them. …”
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Discrimination of the Gypsy Population in the University Environment by Jesús María Aparicio-Gervás, Miguel Ángel Carbonero-Martín, Lorena Valdivieso-León, Raquel Vázquez-Ramil

“…It is confirmed the need for preventive interventions to avoid the establishment of erroneous beliefs about the Roma community.…”
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Greek Physicians’ Perceptions on Generic Drugs in the Era of Austerity by Georgios Labiris, Michael Fanariotis, Catherine Kastanioti, Georgios Alexias, Adonis Protopapas, Theodoros Karampitsakos, Dimitris Niakas

“…Purpose. To assess the beliefs and preferences of Greek physicians, regarding generic drugs, in the years of financial crisis. …”
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Volcanic disaster mitigation based on local wisdom: A case study from a local community in the Mount Galunggung, Indonesia by Mutolib Abdul, Rahmat Ali, Harefa Darmawan, Nugraha Satriya, Handoko Lukman, Sululing Siswadi, Laxmi, Nurhayati Siti

“…Disaster mitigation efforts based on local wisdom in Mount Galunggung include: 1) the use of the kentongan (a traditional wooden alarm instrument), 2) local knowledge of natural disaster signs, and 43) mystical beliefs associated with Mount Galunggung. The implication of this study is the necessity for multi-stakeholder collaboration in building community knowledge and preparedness in facing volcanic disasters around Mount Galunggung.…”
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Effect of COVID-19 on the cultural identity of the Amazonian indigenous Waorani by Aldrin Espín-León, María Luisa Pertegal-Felices, Antonio Jimeno-Morenilla, Juan Guzmán-Montalvo

“…However, in the ideological, religious, beliefs, and spirituality domains, there was a significant decline in scores after COVID-19.…”
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Uncovering Psychedelics: From Neural Circuits to Therapeutic Applications by Alice Melani, Marco Bonaso, Letizia Biso, Benedetta Zucchini, Ciro Conversano, Marco Scarselli

“…This review explores the mechanisms underlying psychedelics’ effects, focusing on their ability to modulate brain connectivity and neural circuit activity, including the default mode network (DMN), cortico-striatal thalamo-cortical (CSTC) loops, and the relaxed beliefs under psychedelics (REBUS) model. Advanced neuroimaging techniques reveal psychedelics’ capacity to enhance functional connectivity between sensory cerebral areas while reducing the connections between associative brain areas, decreasing the rigidity and rendering the brain more plastic and susceptible to external changings, offering insights into their therapeutic outcome. …”
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Examination of the Relationship between Psychosocial Mediators and Intervention Effects in It’s Your Game: An Effective HIV/STI/Pregnancy Prevention Intervention for Middle School... by Elizabeth Baumler, Jill Glassman, Susan Tortolero, Christine Markham, Ross Shegog, Melissa Peskin, Robert Addy, Heather Franks

“…Analyses were carried out to investigate the degree to which a set of proposed psychosocial measures of behavioral knowledge, perceived self-efficacy, behavioral, and normative beliefs, and perceived risky situations, all targeted by the intervention, mediated the intervention’s effectiveness in reducing initiation of sex. …”
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Decision Processes about Condom Use among Shelter-Homeless LGBT Youth in Manhattan by Geoffrey L. Ream, Kate F. Barnhart, Kevin V. Lotz

“…Health behavior interventions based on Theory of Planned Behavior address participants’ personally-held beliefs, perceived social norms, and control over the behavior. …”
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Proverbial Expressions in Contextual Definition of Káà and its Postproverbial Imagination by Michael Olaniyi Ajadi

“…The paper, therefore, studies spatial attributes, styles, and designative units in diverse Yorùbá architectural structures for historical values and denotations of customary beliefs and practices. In-depth interviews and historical review methodologies were used for age-long structures of this style; pictures were taken for value orientation discussions and detailed analysis of each unit to ethical codes. …”
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Representation of scales and prosody proportions of Maulana Khalid Naqshbandi's Diwan based on Persian, Kurdish and Arabic poems by Seyed Asaad Sheikhahmadi, Sohila Salimizand

“…He used his Sufi thoughts and beliefs in his Persian poems in the style of Iraqi style poets and used weights in their works.…”
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AXIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF MORAL AND LEGAL DECISION-MAKING by I. M. Hoian

“…The study shows that every necessary moral and legal decision taken by a person is futurologically balanced in the emotional sense, rationally reasoned and morally perceptible in the context of man’s beliefs about good and evil, and realized with necessity in the personal system of reference values that determines the style and manner of individual and social behaviour in the context of material and spiritual values and is an axiological foundation for making all types of moral and legal decisions. …”
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Neuromuscular Monitoring, Muscle Relaxant Use, and Reversal at a Tertiary Teaching Hospital 2.5 Years after Introduction of Sugammadex: Changes in Opinions and Clinical Practice by Thomas Ledowski, Jing Shen Ong, Tom Flett

“…Two departmental audits (26-page online survey and 1-week in-theatre snapshot audit) were undertaken to investigate the change of beliefs and clinical practice related to the use of neuromuscular blocking agents at the Royal Perth Hospital since this introduction. …”
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Buy now, pray later? Demystifying unrestrained spending in the age of BNPL by Farhan Furqan, Christian Haposan Pangaribuan, Santo Tjhin, Calista Luhur

“…Practical implications – The study emphasizes how important financial literacy is among young consumers, especially with relation to religious values and beliefs. Originality/value – While existing research rarely considers the specific influence of religious values, the novelty of the research lies in its focus on combining intrinsic religiosity and financial literacy when unrestrained buying behavior with Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL) services. …”
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Mechanisms of change in an online acceptance and commitment therapy intervention for insomnia by Tetta Hämäläinen, Päivi Lappalainen, Sitwat Usman Langrial, Raimo Lappalainen, Noona Kiuru

“…Mediator models were used to investigate the effects of online ACT on subjective sleep complaints through changes in daytime sleepiness, dysfunctional beliefs, psychological symptoms, mindfulness, and thought suppression. …”
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A Field Study on Political Socialization of Political Science Students by Ali Çiçek

“…In this process, the individual learns the boundaries of their own society unconsciously, the roles in that society, the forms of behaviour deemed legitimate and political beliefs. In political socialisation as a learning process, institutions such as family, friendship networks, school, mass media and religion have constructive and transformative roles in the process. …”
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Rendre compte de l'insaisissable by Youssoupha Tall, Jeanne Riaux, Benjamin Sultan

“…Through their Xooy, the Saltigui convey and share a local knowledge, linked to a specific territory and stemming from a set of beliefs and practices rooted in history. This particular case allows us to consider ‘local ecological knowledge’ as a form of situated totality. …”
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Anticipating The Return of Foreign Terrorist Fighters: Indonesia-Australia’s Initiative on Sub-Regional Meetings on Counterterrorism by Nuri Widiastuti Veronika

“…This study adopted Buzan and Weaver’s regional security complex elements in explaining to what extent this regional security issue has put aside Indonesian-Australian differences and led them to the co-leadership position in anticipating the return of FTFs to Asia Pacific, prone to terrorist attacks and violent extremist beliefs. The analysis unveiled that Indonesia-Australia’s SRM initiative to anticipate the return of FTFs could, to some extent, address the elements of security complexes in the Asia Pacific subregion through the mutual co-leadership, reduce the lack of regional trust and foreign policy dilemmas, build bonded trust across all levels of government administration, and obtain the advantage of the securitization of the return of FTFs.…”
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