Magical Thinking in the UFO Subculture?
Greetings. UFOs. Magical thinking. A connection? Magical thinking is the belief that unrelated events are causally connected despite the total absence of any plausible causal link between them, particularly as a result of unlikely, non-mundane, supernatural effects. Some examples include the idea that personal thoughts can influence the physical world without directly acting on it, or that objects must be causally connected if they resemble each other or have come into some form of contact with each other in the past. Magical thinking is a common type of fallacious thinking and is a source of invalid causal inferences. Unlike the confusion of correlation with causation, magical thinking does not require the events to be correlated. The precise definition of magical thinking varies by degrees when used by different theorists or among different fields of study. In psychology, magical thinking is the belief that one's thoughts by themselves can bring about effects in the world or that...
