Podcasts Culture Very Bad Wizards Episode 266: I Want to Half-Believe

Episode 266: I Want to Half-Believe

Published: Aug. 8, 2023, 5:51 p.m.

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Last December, with Argentina minutes away from a World Cup championship, friend of the show Yoel texted David \\u201ccongratulations.\\u201d David was furious, and soon after (with less than 2 minutes left in extra time) France\\u2019s Mbappe scored a game-tying goal to send the match into penalty kicks. (Argentina ended up winning or Yoel might have become \\u2018former friend of the show.\\u2019) David says he doesn\\u2019t believe in jinxes at all but his actions suggest otherwise. We talk about a paper on this phenomenon of \\u201chalf-belief\\u201d: when your behavior and your stated beliefs don\\u2019t align. Plus Tamler and David take a survey and discover that they lead radically different inner lives.\\xa0

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Caspi, A., Shmuel, E., & Chajut, E. (2023). A quantitative examination of half-belief in superstition.\\xa0Journal of Individual Differences.

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