Today we looked at superstition and magical thinking. These are both examples of irrational thinking where a causal relationship has been assumed between events that are merely correlated. There are various explanations as to why some people believe in these more than other people - it could be to create an illusion of control, or because they have learnt them through conditioning (like Skinner's pigeons), or because they are good at separating their logical from their intuitive brains - the dual processing theory.
Today's ppt is here.
Today's ppt is here.
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