In India, the number 9 taps love, peace, faith, among other important things. And if you play the U.S. lottery, lucky numbers seem to be 23, 11, and 9. Why does magical thinking appear in rituals?

The golden thread throughout has been the premise that people only accept things when they don't lose agency ... LLMs is the ...

whereas magical thinking, is not necessarily about luck, but just about, sort of, how something can cause something else, even when there's no, sort of, scientific evidence that those things would ...

But magical thinking is much easier, and much more amenable to the political cast of mind, than undertaking the very hard, thankless, and uncertain work of doing the things necessary to turn low ...

What happens when your universe becomes unmoored? The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion's award-winning autobiographical examination of grief, arrives on Broadway this spring in one of the ...

In India, the number 9 taps love, peace, faith, among other important things. And if you play the U.S. lottery, lucky numbers seem to be 23, 11, and 9. Why does magical thinking appear in rituals?

The golden thread throughout has been the premise that people only accept things when they don't ... product of such deceptive or delusional magical thinking. Brooks goes on to point out that ...