ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
Superstitions Increase Risk Perception
- Yarden Gur
Open University of Israel - Avner Caspi
The Open University of Israel - Eran Chajut
The Open University of Israel
Abstract
Studies have shown that superstitions may help people cope with uncertainty-induced anxiety. We show the dark side of superstitions, by showing that after exposing participants to negative or positive superstitions they evaluate the probability of occurrence for negative life-events as higher compare to participants that were exposed to neutral rituals.
Social Cognition
