Traditionally, research on superstition and magical thinking has focused on people's
cognitive shortcomings, but superstitions are not limited to individuals with mental deficits …

Mental health symptoms and disorders are common among elite athletes, may have sport
related manifestations within this population and impair performance. Mental health cannot …

Ever since its first manifesto in Greece around 3000 years ago, sports as a field has
accumulated a long history with strong traditions while at the same time, gone through …

A radical exploration of how rituals have influenced history over thousands of years. From
infancy, we copy those around us in order to be like others, to be one with the tribe. Other …

This book reviews how people and animals learn and how their behaviors are later changed
as a result of this learning. Nearly all of our behaviors are influenced by prior learning …

Annotation With a thorough and systematic review of investigations into the bases of belief in
paranormal phenomena, this discussion explores the four main theoretical approaches …

Does the experience of war increase people's religiosity? Much evidence supports the idea
that particular religious beliefs and ritual forms can galvanize social solidarity and motivate …

After having attended a friendly football match between Chelsea FC and Dynamo Moscow to
mark the end of World War II, the novelist George Orwell (1945) famously remarked that …

These studies examined whether having thoughts related to an event before it occurs leads
people to infer that they caused the event--even when such causation might otherwise seem …

Abstract [Retraction notice: A retraction for this article was reported in Vol 126 (2) of Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology (see record 2024-62324-003). This retraction follows …