Heuristics and Biases: Sympathetic Magical Thinking: The Contagion and Similarity “Heuristics”

By P. Rozin, C. Nemeroff. 2002

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Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The Limits of Attraction (2014, background): “…of one object are transferred to other objects in that category (Rozin, Haidt, and McCauley 2000; Rozin, Millman, and Nemeroff 1986; Rozin and Nemeroff 2002); (2) there is widespread evidence for both contrast and assimilation effects within the extensive body of literature on context…”
On seeing human: a three-factor theory of anthropomorphism. (2007, background): “…suggest that all of their research participants hold their beliefs with the same degree of explicit endorsement (Fazio & Olson, 2003), or that a person who refuses to eat a piece of chocolate shaped like a cockroach somehow confuses the chocolate for an actual cockroach (Rozin & Nemeroff, 2002).”
What's in a Term? Paranormal, Superstitious, Magical and Supernatural Beliefs by Any Other Name Would Mean the Same (2012, background): “The alleged influence of the source on the target may be negative (i.e., contamination) or positive, and the influence is assumed to remain after the physical contact has ceased because an essence has been transferred from the source to the target (Frazer, 1922/1963; Rozin & Nemeroff, 2002).”
Everyday magical powers: the role of apparent mental causation in the overestimation of personal influence. (2006, background): “…contact between objects leads to the transfer of “essence” between the objects and as though the transfer of such essence creates a connection between the two entities, thus, for example, making us unwilling to wear a washed garment once worn by a Nazi (Rozin et al., 1986; Rozin & Nemeroff, 2002).”
What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment (2010, background): “The peripheral or intuitive mode (Kahneman’s [2003] System I) is at work when we smile at a picture of puppies playing, or recoil at the thought of eating a cockroach (Rozin and Nemeroff 2002).”