Magical thinking—the need to believe that one’s hopes and desires can have an effect on how the world turns—is everywhere. Spirits, ghosts, patterns, and signs seem to be everywhere ...

Mental health conditions linked to magical thinking include schizophrenia, OCD, anxiety, and PTSD. Magical thinking isn't as fantastical as it might seem — in fact, you've probably done it ...

Brooks observes that the current hyperbole around LLMs is the direct product of such deceptive or delusional magical thinking. Brooks goes on to point out that this is not just individual behavior ...

It means, I have a better explanation. Narrator: Phillips Stevens is an expert on what some psychologists call magical thinking. Like when people were in a bad mood say, they got up on the wrong ...

Writer, linguist, and host of the hit podcast, Sounds Like a Cult, Amanda Montell turns her keenly knowledgeable eye to the ...