• Magical thinking, or superstitious thinking, is the belief that unrelated events are causally connected despite the absence of any plausible causal link...
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    The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), by Joan Didion (1934–2021), is an account of the year following the death of the author's husband John Gregory Dunne...
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    National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Year of Magical Thinking, a memoir of the year following the death of her husband, writer John...
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  • Magical thinking is a set of related reasoning errors that are commonly associated with religionistic practices. Magical thinking may also refer to: Magical...
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  • Magical Thinking is a 2004 memoir by American writer Augusten Burroughs. The book contains stories from the adult life of the author. Magical Thinking...
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    telling is dismissed by skeptics as being based on pseudoscience, magical thinking and superstition. Common methods used for fortune telling in Europe...
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    several intriguing figures engaged with occult and magical themes that went beyond conventional thinking. Michael Sendivogius (1566–1636), a Polish alchemist...
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    pleasure) to reduce distress Magical thinking: belief that one's thoughts alone can bring about effects in the world, or that thinking something corresponds...
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    as stage magic, the art of appearing to perform supernatural feats Magical thinking, the belief that unrelated events are causally connected, particularly...
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    Leonard; Jones, Warren H. (1989). Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. p. 155. ISBN 978-0805805079 Anderson...
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    Leonard; Jones, Warren H. (1989). Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0805805086. Nema (1995). Maat Magic: a...
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    Journey into Night (2003). She received Tony nominations for The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) and Driving Miss Daisy (2011). Redgrave made her film debut...
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    Leonard; Jones, Warren. (1989). Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. pp. 152–168. ISBN 0-8058-0508-7 Friedlander...
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    latent egodystonic desires or magical-thinking capabilities. These imaginary latent egodystonic desires or magical-thinking capabilities generally express...
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    S2CID 128599895. Hill, Matt (2013-11-11). "Cloud seeding, no longer magical thinking, is poised for use this winter". Sacramento Bee. Archived from the...
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  • Law of attraction (New Thought) (category Magical thinking)
    ordering Efficacy of prayer Internal locus of control Law of contagion Magical thinking Medical students' disease Mind over matter Positive mental attitude...
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    intelligence behind them. He argues that divination games involve magical thinking, saying "Often the 'answers' received [in divination games] might be...
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    February 2014, and playing Joan Didion in the one-woman show The Year of Magical Thinking, based on Didion's memoir of the same name, in October and November...
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  • Occult (redirect from Magical science)
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    and Magical Thinking, 1880–1920. Cambridge University Press. p. 16. ISBN 0521801680 McCorristine, Shane. (2010). Spectres of the Self: Thinking about...
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    causal link. As evidence, Wegner cites a series of experiments on magical thinking in which subjects were induced to think they had influenced external...
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  • less severe cognitive deficits, and more severe social anxiety and magical thinking. People with StPD are more likely to only have a high school education...
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    faced controversy due to Steiner's connections to racist ideology and magical thinking.[discuss] Others have faced regulatory audits and closure due to concerns...
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    Obsessive–compulsive disorder (category Magical thinking)
    implicated in salience, habit, goal-directed behavior, self-referential thinking, and cognitive control. For nonaffective tasks, hyperactivity was observed...
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    for alcoholism. It was followed by two collections of memoir essays, Magical Thinking (2003) and Possible Side Effects (2006). His first novel, Sellevision...
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    psychologist Leonard Zusne in his book Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking (1989) has written: Cases of stigmatism fall into two categories: self-inflicted...
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    Leonard; Jones, Warren (1989). Anomalistic psychology: a study of magical thinking. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. p. 167. ISBN 0805805087. Kendrick Frazier...
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