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Superstitions & Folk Belief

The Psychology of Superstition

by Gustav Jahoda

A short classic by a social psychologist arguing that superstition is a normal product of human thinking rather than a sign of ignorance. Jahoda reviews anthropological and psychological evidence available in the 1960s.

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