Sympathetic magical thinking¶
Rozin, P., & Nemeroff, C. (2002). Sympathetic magical thinking: The contagion and similarity "heuristics. Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment.
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- Purity and Pollution
- These predictions are counter-intuitive from a harm-logic standpoint, which is precisely why naming the prime adds reasoning power: it lets one anticipate behavior that a cost-benefit model would mispredict.
This sourceReview formalizing the contagion ("once in contact, always in contact") and similarity laws; supports the cross-domain predictions of association-spread, partial-mixing-taints-whole, and dose-independence.
- These predictions are counter-intuitive from a harm-logic standpoint, which is precisely why naming the prime adds reasoning power: it lets one anticipate behavior that a cost-benefit model would mispredict.
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