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If you’ve ever avoided walking under a ladder—or jumped over a crack so you didn’t step on it, or worn a lucky sweater to give a presentation—then you are likely superstitious. It’s nothing to be ...

Last Friday, Groundhog's Day, Punxsutawney Phil, the infamous weather-forecasting woodchuck, climbed with ceremonial astuteness out of his burrow and offered his prediction about the coming winter.

That strange ritual your great-grandmother swore by for staying healthy might have seemed like pure superstition, but it could have been based on legitimate medical principles that science didn’t ...

In a paper published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Professor Johnjoe McFadden argues Occam's razor—attributed to the Surrey-born Franciscan friar William of Occam (1285–1347)—is ...

A total solar eclipse is a beautiful astronomical phenomenon that can now be explained with science, but before science, many cultures had their own theories about what caused an eclipse. Some of ...

For generations, people across cultures have believed that a dog barking after midnight is more than just noise. In many ...

A recent study provides important new insights into the psychology of superstition. Considerable work over the years has examined the causes and characteristics of superstitious beliefs (e.g., Vyse ...

Superstition is the belief in supernatural causality, where certain actions, objects, or rituals are believed to bring about specific outcomes, whether good or bad. While some may dismiss ...