Firewalking (English Wikipedia)

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Konvalinka, Ivana; Xygalatas, Dimitris; Bulbulia, Joseph; Schjødt, Uffe; Jegindø, Else-Marie; Wallot, Sebastian; Van Orden, Guy; Roepstorff, Andreas (2011). "Synchronized arousal between performers and related spectators in a fire-walking ritual". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108 (20): 8514–8519. Bibcode:2011PNAS..108.8514K. doi:10.1073/pnas.1016955108. PMC 3100954. PMID 21536887.
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Konvalinka, Ivana; Xygalatas, Dimitris; Bulbulia, Joseph; Schjødt, Uffe; Jegindø, Else-Marie; Wallot, Sebastian; Van Orden, Guy; Roepstorff, Andreas (2011). "Synchronized arousal between performers and related spectators in a fire-walking ritual". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108 (20): 8514–8519. Bibcode:2011PNAS..108.8514K. doi:10.1073/pnas.1016955108. PMC 3100954. PMID 21536887.
Fischer, Ronald; Xygalatas, Dimitris; Mitkidis, Panagiotis; Reddish, Paul; Tok, Patrick; Bulbulia, Joseph (2014). "The Fire-Walker's High: Affect and Physiological Responses in an Extreme Collective Ritual". PLOS ONE. 9 (2) e88355. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...988355F. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088355. PMC 3930548. PMID 24586315.
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Pankratz, Loren (1988). "Fire Walking and the Persistence of Charlatans". Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 31 (2): 291–298. doi:10.1353/pbm.1988.0057. ISSN 1529-8795. PMID 3281133. S2CID 40278024 – via Project Muse.

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Pankratz, Loren (1988). "Fire Walking and the Persistence of Charlatans". Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 31 (2): 291–298. doi:10.1353/pbm.1988.0057. ISSN 1529-8795. PMID 3281133. S2CID 40278024 – via Project Muse.
Konvalinka, Ivana; Xygalatas, Dimitris; Bulbulia, Joseph; Schjødt, Uffe; Jegindø, Else-Marie; Wallot, Sebastian; Van Orden, Guy; Roepstorff, Andreas (2011). "Synchronized arousal between performers and related spectators in a fire-walking ritual". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108 (20): 8514–8519. Bibcode:2011PNAS..108.8514K. doi:10.1073/pnas.1016955108. PMC 3100954. PMID 21536887.
Leikind, Bernard J.; McCarthy, William J. (1988). "Firewalking". Experientia. 44 (4): 310–315. doi:10.1007/BF01961268. PMID 3282906.
Leikind, Bernard J.; McCarthy, William J. (1988). "Firewalking". Experientia. 44 (4): 310–315. doi:10.1007/BF01961268. PMID 3282906.
Hobson, Nicholas M.; Schroeder, Juliana; Risen, Jane L.; Xygalatas, Dimitris; Inzlicht, Michael (2018). "The Psychology of Rituals: An Integrative Review and Process-Based Framework". Personality and Social Psychology Review. 22 (3): 260–284. doi:10.1177/1088868317734944. PMID 29130838.
Konvalinka, Ivana; Xygalatas, Dimitris; Bulbulia, Joseph; Schjødt, Uffe; Jegindø, Else-Marie; Wallot, Sebastian; Van Orden, Guy; Roepstorff, Andreas (2011). "Synchronized arousal between performers and related spectators in a fire-walking ritual". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108 (20): 8514–8519. Bibcode:2011PNAS..108.8514K. doi:10.1073/pnas.1016955108. PMC 3100954. PMID 21536887.
Fischer, Ronald; Xygalatas, Dimitris; Mitkidis, Panagiotis; Reddish, Paul; Tok, Patrick; Bulbulia, Joseph (2014). "The Fire-Walker's High: Affect and Physiological Responses in an Extreme Collective Ritual". PLOS ONE. 9 (2) e88355. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...988355F. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088355. PMC 3930548. PMID 24586315.
Leikind, Bernard J.; McCarthy, William J. (1988). "Firewalking". Experientia. 44 (4): 310–315. doi:10.1007/BF01961268. PMID 3282906.

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Konvalinka, Ivana; Xygalatas, Dimitris; Bulbulia, Joseph; Schjødt, Uffe; Jegindø, Else-Marie; Wallot, Sebastian; Van Orden, Guy; Roepstorff, Andreas (2011). "Synchronized arousal between performers and related spectators in a fire-walking ritual". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108 (20): 8514–8519. Bibcode:2011PNAS..108.8514K. doi:10.1073/pnas.1016955108. PMC 3100954. PMID 21536887.
Konvalinka, Ivana; Xygalatas, Dimitris; Bulbulia, Joseph; Schjødt, Uffe; Jegindø, Else-Marie; Wallot, Sebastian; Van Orden, Guy; Roepstorff, Andreas (2011). "Synchronized arousal between performers and related spectators in a fire-walking ritual". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108 (20): 8514–8519. Bibcode:2011PNAS..108.8514K. doi:10.1073/pnas.1016955108. PMC 3100954. PMID 21536887.
Fischer, Ronald; Xygalatas, Dimitris; Mitkidis, Panagiotis; Reddish, Paul; Tok, Patrick; Bulbulia, Joseph (2014). "The Fire-Walker's High: Affect and Physiological Responses in an Extreme Collective Ritual". PLOS ONE. 9 (2) e88355. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...988355F. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088355. PMC 3930548. PMID 24586315.

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Pankratz, Loren (1988). "Fire Walking and the Persistence of Charlatans". Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 31 (2): 291–298. doi:10.1353/pbm.1988.0057. ISSN 1529-8795. PMID 3281133. S2CID 40278024 – via Project Muse.
Xygalatas, Dimitris (2011). "Ethnography, Historiography, and the Making of History in the Tradition of the Anastenaria" (PDF). History and Anthropology. 22: 57–74. doi:10.1080/02757206.2011.546855. S2CID 154450368.

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Pankratz, Loren (1988). "Fire Walking and the Persistence of Charlatans". Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 31 (2): 291–298. doi:10.1353/pbm.1988.0057. ISSN 1529-8795. PMID 3281133. S2CID 40278024 – via Project Muse.
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