The Effects of Stress and Desire for Control on Superstitious Behavior

By G. Keinan. 2002

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Conscious and Nonconscious Components of Superstitious Beliefs in Judgment and Decision Making (2008, background): “In addition, our final study found support for another prevalent speculative assertion in the superstition literature, namely, that reliance on superstitions tends to increase in times of uncertainty (Keinan 2002; Malinowski 1954).”
The effect of superstitious beliefs on performance expectations (2009, background): “For example, Keinan (2002) found that residents living in areas more likely to be exposed to a missile attack during the Gulf War were more superstitious (that is, were more likely to engage in " magical thinking " ) than those living in safer zones.”
Examining the Relationship Between Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal Beliefs, and Pseudoscience Acceptance Among a University Population (2014, background): “Similarly, a person’s desire for control over his or her life has been shown to be related to superstitious behavior (e.g., Keinan, 2002), and threats to control increase a person’s perceptions of illusionary patterns (e.g., Sullivan, Landau, & Rothschild, 2010; Whitson & Galinsky, 2008), whereas…”
Everyday magical powers: the role of apparent mental causation in the overestimation of personal influence. (2006, background): “…explanation comes from studies showing that people display signs of magical thinking when they are faced with a combination of uncertainty about an outcome and a desire for control over that outcome (e.g., Bleak & Frederick, 1998; Friedland, Keinan, & Regev, 1992; Keinan, 1994, 2002; Matute, 1994).”
What's in a Term? Paranormal, Superstitious, Magical and Supernatural Beliefs by Any Other Name Would Mean the Same (2012, background): “It was also argued that superstitions are rooted in (Keinan, 2002) or derivatives of (Einstein & Menzies, 2004) magical thinking.”
God and the government: testing a compensatory control mechanism for the support of external systems. (2008, background): “…waters (Malinowski, 1954); among Israelis when under military threat (Keinan, 1994); among those with a high chronic need for personal control (Keinan, 2002); and among baseball players who more strongly believe that personal, primary control only goes so far in controlling their performance…”
Superstitious Behavior Among American and Japanese Professional Baseball Players (2005, background): “Similarly, Keinan (2002) found people with a high desire for control were more likely than those with a low desire for control to engage in superstitious behavior, presumably because the superstition aided them in controlling uncertain outcomes.”
Paranormal beliefs: their dimensionality and correlates (2006, background): “Some researchers suggest that paranormal beliefs contain superstitions (Tobacyk & Milford, 1983), others claim that superstitions are rooted in magical thinking (Keinan, 2002; Zusne & Jones, 1989), and yet others equate paranormal beliefs to magical thinking (Brugger & Graves, 1997).”