Magical thinking in judgments of causation: Can anomalous phenomena affect ontological causal beliefs in children and adults?

By Eugene Subbotsky. 2004

104 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Marjaana Lindeman
2. Daniel M. Wegner
3. Annika Svedholm

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Citations in the corpus

• Everyday magical powers: the role of apparent mental causation in the overestimation of personal influence. (2006, background): “Consistent with the idea that reliance on scientific explanations rather than magical ones increases with psychological development, adults often refuse to verbally endorse magical beliefs even though, like young children, they may behave as though they hold those beliefs (Nemeroff & Rozin, 2000; Su”
• What's in a Term? Paranormal, Superstitious, Magical and Supernatural Beliefs by Any Other Name Would Mean the Same (2012, background): “For example, according to Subbotsky (2004), magical events involve supernatural ones and according to Yorulmaz, Inozu, and Gultepe (2010), magical thinking encompasses paranormal beliefs.”