Key Assumptions About the Nature of Superstition
摘要
This chapter considers three main assumptions about superstition based on the literature. Firstly, that superstition alleviates anxietyAnxiety experienced during periods of uncertaintyUncertainty/uncertainty avoidance when superstitious beliefs may function as a substitute for, or a supplement to, available information. Secondly, superstitions arise in any organism capable of associative learningAssociative learning through faulty assumptions about causationCausation and thirdly, that superstition is culturallyCultural constructed.