Linking Thinking

Magical Thinking

We are wired to find meaning in the world, and often this means including superstition and other explanations into our world view Emotional stress and events of personal significance will push us strongly toward magical meaning-making. Susan Gelman explains it this way: God puts you in the path of an HIV-positive lover, but biology causes you to contract the virus from his semen.

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