Magical thinking is when a person believes that specific words, thoughts, emotions, or rituals can influence the external world. Magical thinking examples include worrying that something bad will ...

Over the last two decades, and in particular over the last five years, there has been a growing scientific interest in conspiracy theories and people who believe in them. Although, some may think ...

Everybody makes thinking errors. But two things have happened recently that prompt me to write on this subject. One is politics, because in the U.S. it seems like almost everything has become ...