Magical thinking
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Magical thinking is a type of causal reasoning or causal fallacy that looks for meaningful relationships of grouped phenomena between acts and events. In religion, folk religion, and superstition, the correlation posited is between religious ritual, such as prayer, sacrifice, or the observance of a taboo, and an expected benefit or recompense. In clinical psychology, magical thinking is a condition that causes the patient to experience irrational fear of performing certain acts or having certain thoughts because they assume a correlation with their acts and threatening calamities.
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- Related: Self-deception, Wishful thinking, Clarke's three laws, Confirmation bias, Omnipotence, Placebo effect, Superstitious pigeon, Schizotypy
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