{"id":873,"date":"2019-09-01T10:53:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T14:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/?page_id=873"},"modified":"2020-09-05T12:42:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T16:42:38","slug":"why-magical-thinking-works","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-2\/2-2\/why-magical-thinking-works\/","title":{"rendered":"&#128203; Why &#8220;Magical Thinking&#8221; Works for Some People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We all naturally seem to believe in magic and this appears to be a huge obstacle in the way of getting legitimate knowledge of the way things really work. In fact, as this article shows, our spontaneous tendency to believe in magic have some good effects, and tends to cause troubles for us mostly because we take it literally and apply it too broadly. Find out more about the potential positive effects of getting things wrong here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/superstitions-can-make-you\/\">Why &#8220;Magical Thinking&#8221; Works for Some People<\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all naturally seem to believe in magic and this appears to be a huge obstacle in the way of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":430,"menu_order":222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-873","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/873","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=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4616,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/873\/revisions\/4616"}],"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=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}