Does the socio-psychological hypothesis explain cases of the reincarnation type?

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 186, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 504-505

  Schouten, Sybo A ^a   Stevenson, Ian ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; RECALL; REINCARNATION; RELIGION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CULTURE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MAGIC; MALE; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RECORDS; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SRI LANKA; SUPERSTITIONS; WRITING;

EID: 0031870757     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199808000-00011     Document Type: Article

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