The Laws of Sympathetic Magic¶
Rozin, P., & Nemeroff, C. (1990). The Laws of Sympathetic Magic: A Psychological Analysis of Similarity and Contagion. Cambridge University Press.
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Mechanisms¶
- Contact/Contagion Warrant Test
- This is the psychological law of contagion at work, the intuition that "once in contact, always in contact."
This sourceDescribes the law of contagion in sympathetic magic, including the belief that objects once in contact continue to influence one another after separation.
- This is the psychological law of contagion at work, the intuition that "once in contact, always in contact."
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