Episode 266: I Want to Half-Believe
Very Bad Wizards
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The Relationship Between Belief and Behavior
$800 to $900 million is spent every year on Friday the 13th, according to a new study. "I fully admit that I did not think that superstitions would matter that much," says CNN's John Sutter. A paper by Michaela Kramer and Ned Block looks at how beliefs don't match behavior in practice. The authors focus on specifically superstitious beliefs about jinxes.
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