== Atheists with a sociopathic personality structure and the occult ==
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''See also:'' [[Atheism and sociopathy]] and [[Atheism and the supernatural]] and [[Atheism and life after death]]
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The journal article ''Atheism and the occult'' published in the ''Journal of Social Sciences'' indicated:
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{{Cquote|Atheists with a [[sociopathy|sociopathic]] personality structure have a greater degree of predisposition to express different forms of occult practice. The results of canonical discriminant analysis have shown that occultist syndrome in atheists is a component of a kind of sociopathic aggression whose latent structure is defined by materialistic-hedonistic orientation, impulsive aggression and asocial aggression in the positive direction, and altruism in the negative direction. Atheists with a sociopathic personality structure have a greater degree of predisposition to express different forms of occult practice.
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(Google translated version of the journal article).<ref>[https://www.bib.irb.hr/410284?rad=410284 Atheism and the occult], Journal of Social Sciences, 32 (2008), 2; 357-366]</ref>}}
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== East Asia, atheism, superstition and irrationality ==
== East Asia, atheism, superstition and irrationality ==