A provocative and entertaining look at the psychology of superstition and religion, how they make us human and how we can use them to our advantage
What is so special about touching a piano John Lennon once owned? Why do we yell at our laptops? And why do people like to say, Everything happens for a reason ? Drawing on cognitive science, anthropology, and neuroscience, Matthew Hutson shows us that magical thinking is not only hardwired into our brains it s been a factor in our evolutionary success. Magical thinking helps us believe that we have free will and an underlying purpose as it...