FEB 2001
RESEARCH
Superstitious minds
the need to believe
Macquarie University PhD research has found that even sceptics will turn to superstitious strategies in times of desperation.
Macquarie researcher, and self-declared sceptic, Dr Trevor Case, wanted to explore the psychology of superstition. His PhD thesis, titled The need to believe: motivation, disposition and superstition, was supervised by Dr Julie Fitness from the University's Psychology Department.
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Environmental research
gives new insights
into Sydney Harbour history
Ian Kiernan might be distressed to hear it, but if all the garbage were to be removed from Sydney's harbour suburbs, many of them would sink. A Macquarie environmental scientist has dredged up the forgotten past of Sydney's gorgeous foreshores.
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Attraction:
what is in your partner's genes?
It's a question often pondered by a young woman's closest friends and family - "what does she see in him?" MUNews takes a closer look at attraction.
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