How did humans become clever enough to live in nearly every major ecosystem on earth,
create vaccines against deadly plagues, explore the oceans depths, and routinely traverse …

We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function—physical capital, human
capital, labor, and technology—together with standard growth models to frame the role of …

Witchcraft beliefs are historically and geographically widespread, but little is known about
the cultural inheritance processes that may explain their variation between populations. A …

Purpose This article demonstrates how psycho-sociological concepts have a place in
disaster risk sciences. It draws attention to the relationship between risk perception and …

Social science research has stressed the important role of religion in sustaining cooperation
among non-kin. We contribute to this multidisciplinary literature with a large-scale empirical …

This article suggests that since people who believe in magic and those who believe in
conspiracy theories produce meaning and make sense of the world by engaging in the …

Many eldercides in African societies are motivated by witchcraft beliefs. Yet, witchcraft-
related eldercide remains an understudied criminological subject. The present study …

The over-60 population in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to grow rapidly in the coming
decades, tripling between 2020 and 2050. Despite this explosive projected growth, few …

The present case study describes the application of the eye movement desensitization and
reprocessing (EMDR) approach to a patient experiencing the distressing memory of an act …

Headhunting–the practice of acquiring human heads for ritual purposes–was historically
widespread around the world. We hypothesize that headhunting represented a cultural …