Everyday Magical Powers: The Role of Apparent Mental Causation in the Overestimation of Personal Influence

These studies examined whether having thoughts related to an event before it occurs leads people to infer that they caused the event-even when such causation might otherwise seem magical. In Study 1, people perceived that they had harmed another person via a voodoo hex. These perceptions were more l...

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Published in:Journal of personality and social psychology 2006-08, Vol.91 (2), p.218-231
Main Authors: Pronin, Emily, Wegner, Daniel M, McCarthy, Kimberly, Rodriguez, Sylvia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Attribution
Basketball
Beliefs
Biological and medical sciences
Causality
Culture
Developmental psychology
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Health Status
Human
Humans
Inference
Influence
Magic
Magic - psychology
Magical Thinking
Male
Mental health
Perceptions
Power (Psychology)
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Self Concept
Self-esteem
Self-Perception
Shooting
Social attribution, perception and cognition
Social psychology
Spectators
Studies
Success
Thinking
Volition
Voodoo
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