The HBS hosts discuss the nature, origin, and deployment of superstitions.
It seems as if superstitions just evidences a misunderstanding of the relation between some cause and some effect. So, training in critical thinking *should* help to allay superstitions… and, yet, it doesn’t. How important are behaviors to superstitions? Do superstitions require a belief in the supernatural? Are there harmless superstitions?
- Sriracha documentary
- “Leprechauny music”
- Sidney Poitier
- Roger Bacon , “On Secret Works of Art and of Nature“
- Thomas Aquinas, “On the Occult Workings of Nature“
- “How Do NFL Fans Really Affect Games?” (BleacherReport, 2013)
- Michel Foucault on knowledge as power
