Tag: Superstition

  • Jesus, Gaza, and the Murder of Useless People

    Jesus, Gaza, and the Murder of Useless People

    Jesus was a Palestinian Jew born in Bethlehem.  He grew up in Nazareth and was executed as a criminal in Jerusalem. It is because of him that we celebrate Christmas.  But it is in spite of him that what we celebrate is the opposite of what he stood for. The different stories of his birth, […]

  • The Science of Superstition Part II

    The Science of Superstition Part II

    Summary of Part I In Part I of this 2-part article, I began by listing the typical superstitious behavior college students engage in before taking a test. I identified the conditions of superstition, what superstition is and then added the range of its scope. My piece is about socially shared and personal superstitions rather than […]

  • The Science of Superstition

    The Science of Superstition

    Orientation Examples of Superstitious Behavior Stuart Vyse is a psychologist and the author of one of the books I’ll be referencing called Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition. In that book he used his students as guinea pigs for his research on superstition. Before taking one of his exams Vyse found the following superstitions […]

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