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  2. Eye contact - Wikipedia

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    Eye contact occurs when two people or non-human animals look at each other's eyes at the same time. [1] In people , eye contact is a form of nonverbal communication and can have a large influence on social behavior .

  3. Braco (faith healer) - Wikipedia

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    Braco was born Josip Grbavac in Zagreb, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia on 23 November 1967. [1] [5] He earned a degree in economics in Croatia, married and started a family.He began practicing "healing" after the 1991–1995 Croatian War of Independence. [6]

  4. Stare-in-the-crowd effect - Wikipedia

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    The stare-in-the-crowd effect is the notion that an eyes-forward, direct gaze is more easily detected than an averted gaze. First discovered by psychologist and neurophysiologist Michael von Grünau and his psychology student Christina Marie Anston using human subjects in 1995, [1] the processing advantage associated with this effect is thought to derive from the importance of eye contact as a ...

  5. Psychic staring effect - Wikipedia

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    A 1913 study by John E. Coover asked ten subjects to state whether or not they could sense an experimenter looking at them, over a period of 100 possible staring periods. . The subjects' answers were correct 50.2% of the time, a result that Coover called an "astonishing approximation" of pure chance.

  6. Buy your way to Heaven! The Catholic Church brings back ...

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    As the Times points out, a monetary donation wouldn't go amiss toward earning an indulgence. It writes, "charitable contributions, combined with other acts, can help you earn one."

  7. Purgatory - Wikipedia

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    The prayers of the saints in Heaven and the good deeds, works of mercy, prayers, and indulgences of the living have a twofold effect: they help the souls in purgatory atone for their sins and they make the souls' own prayers for the living effective, [38] since the merits of the saints in Heaven, on Earth, and in Purgatory are part of the ...

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    They buy addicts time to fix their lives, seek out counseling and allow their brains to heal. Doctors recommend tapering off the medication only with the greatest of caution. The process can take years given that addiction is a chronic disease and effective therapy can be a long, grueling affair.

  9. ‘Like going to the moon’: Why this is the world’s most ...

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    At around 600 miles wide and up to 6,000 meters (nearly four miles) deep, the Drake is objectively a vast body of water. To us, that is. To the planet as a whole, less so.