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Episode 266: I Want to Half-Believe

Very Bad Wizards

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The Overlooked Nature of Superstitions

The ubiquitous nature of superstitions is it's hilariously not ubiquitous in like a social psych text at all. It really seems like if you've learned these things through the normal mechanisms, which is either you've been told it by like the culture over and over again, or you've actually made the connection on your own. And sometimes those connections actually start getting weird. But obviously not weird to people who believe them. They're just weird in the sense that they don't match. with the other ways they understand how the universe operates.

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