Throughout recorded history, humankind has claimed to possess unparalleled cognitive potential. This potential is the cause and manifestation of the human quest to understand life and all the forces ...

Cancer fatalism-the belief that death is inevitable when cancer is present-has been identified as a barrier to participation in cancer screening, detection, and treatment. Yet this literature has not ...

Cancer fear and fatalism are believed to be higher in ethnic minorities and may contribute to lower engagement with cancer prevention and early detection. We explored the levels of cancer fear and ...

Cancer isn't necessarily a death sentence, but it's common to believe that it is. When Leonora Argate found a lump in her breast, the first thing she felt was fear. She thought, "Cancer doesn't seem ...

(This article was coauthored with Kathleen D. Vohs and first published in Dialogue, the newsletter for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, alongside a companion piece by John Bargh and ...

The hold of the fatalistic reasoning that Aristotle criticizes is dependent, first, on the idea, articulated by Frege, that the real candidates for truth and falsity are something other than ...

Interestingly, Straughan and Seow's work [10] focuses on fatalism among women of Chinese descent, whereas Freeman [6] focuses on the role of poverty and fatalism, and Powe and Johnson [9] focus on the ...