{"id":55,"date":"2019-06-29T13:44:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T17:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2020-09-05T12:42:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T16:42:28","slug":"psychology-magical-thinking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-2\/2-2\/psychology-magical-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"&#128203; The Psychology of Magical Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are all prone to believe in magic, in fact it seems to be built in to the human mind. Find out more about the psychological roots of magical thinking in this article from <em>Psychology Today.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<a class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/articles\/200803\/magical-thinking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Magical Thinking<\/a>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What are your favorite examples of magical thinking? Why is it that we find it so compelling?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are all prone to believe in magic, in fact it seems to be built in to the human mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":430,"menu_order":221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-55","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4615,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions\/4615"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}