The HBS hosts discuss the nature, origin, and deployment of superstitions.

It seems as if superstitions just evidence a misunderstanding of the relation between some cause and some effect. So, training in critical thinking should help to allay superstitions… and, yet, it doesn’t. How important are behaviors to superstitions? Do superstitions require a belief in the supernatural? Are there harmless superstitions?

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