Superstition

Published: Jan. 28, 2022, 11 a.m.

The HBS hosts discuss the nature, origin, and deployment of superstitions.

It seems as if superstitions just evidence a misunderstanding of the relation between some cause and some effect. So, training in critical thinking *should* help to allay superstitions… and, yet, it doesn’t. How important are behaviors to superstitions? Do superstitions require a belief in the supernatural? Are there harmless superstitions?

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