A Functional Motivation Framework for Examining Superstitious Behavior

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 454-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajiv Vaidyanathan ◽  
Praveen Aggarwal ◽  
Marat Bakpayev
Keyword(s):  
Superstitious Behavior ◽  
Functional Motivation

Superstitious Behavior Questionnaire in Sport: A preliminary study

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Donti ◽  
C. Katsikas ◽  
N. A. Stavrou ◽  
M. Psychountaki
Keyword(s):  
Superstitious Behavior ◽  
Preliminary Study

scholarly journals PSYCHO-SOCIAL FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO SUPERSTITIOUS BEHAVIOR: LITERATURE REVIEW

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 42-47
Author(s):  
Manasvi Shrivastav ◽  
Anuradha Kotnala
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Confidence Level ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
The Past ◽  
Superstitious Behavior ◽  
The World ◽  
People Today

Most superstition from the past have been proven by science as unnecessary, ineffective or just plain silly but are still practiced by normal intelligent people today. Around the world, there are many reappearing themes for superstition. Every country has its own localized take on each theme. In this article researcher reviews on previous researches. There is much different kind of researches in the field of superstition and there are different theories related to the origin of superstition. Superstition is influenced by different social and psychological factors. In this article those researches have been discussed which through light on social and psychological factors of superstition. Psychological factors like fear, locus of control, confidence level etc. and social factors such as locale, socio-economic status etc.

scholarly journals What’s hidden in my filedrawer and what’s in yours? Disclosing Non-published Findings in the Cognitive Science of Religion

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michiel van Elk
Keyword(s):  
Peripersonal Space ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Short Report ◽  
Magical Thinking ◽  
Cognitive Science Of Religion ◽  
The Past ◽  
Superstitious Behavior ◽  
Behavior Study ◽  
Unpublished Studies ◽  
Neurocognitive Measures

In this short report I present an overview of different unpublished studies that we conducted in my lab over the past years. Across the different studies we observed consistent effects of our experimental manipulations or variables of interest on self-report measures, but less so on behavioral and neurocognitive measures. For instance, religious people said they were more prosocial but did not donate more money (Study 1 & 2); participants experienced awe but this did not affect their body and self perception (Study 6 & 7); participants had mystical-like experiences but this did not affect the perception of their peripersonal space (Study 8 & 9); and self-reported magical thinking was unrelated to superstitious behavior (Study 11). In other studies, the hypothesized effects did not bear out as expected or were even in an unexpected direction. Participants perceived more agency in threatening pictures and scenarios, but this was not related to their supernatural beliefs (Study 3-5) and a death priming manipulation reduced rather than increased participants’ religiosity (Study 10). Opening the filedrawer through the publication of short reports like this one, will hopefully further increase transparency and will help other researchers to learn from our own trials and errors.

Superstitious behavior for food and water in the rat

1977 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 803-806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Reberg ◽  
Barbara Mann ◽  
Nancy K. Innis
Keyword(s):  
Superstitious Behavior
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