Magical thinking in predictions of negative events: Evidence for tempting fate but not for a protection effect

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 45-54

  van Wolferen, Job ^a   Inbar, Yoel ^a   Zeelenberg, Marcel ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Magical thinking; Protection effect; Replication attempt; Tempting fate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873447726     PISSN: 19302975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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