{"id":48,"date":"2008-03-16T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/magical-thinkin\/"},"modified":"2008-03-16T23:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T23:03:00","slug":"magical-thinkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/mind-brain\/magical-thinkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Magical Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/03\/17\/blackcat2.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=473,height=329,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"69\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Blackcat2\" title=\"Blackcat2\" src=\"https:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/03\/17\/blackcat2.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMy latest feature article has just been published in <em>Psychology Today<\/em>. It&#8217;s about everyday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/articles\/pto-20080225-000003.html\" target=\"_blank\">magical thinking<\/a> and how even the most hard-core skeptic thinks magically&#8211;believing in karma, luck, curses, tempting fate, etc. And it&#8217;s loaded with coverage of studies that involved voodoo dolls, royal spoons, dart boards, and Mr. Rogers&#8217;s sweaters. Check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest feature article has just been published in Psychology Today. It&#8217;s about everyday magical thinking and how even the most hard-core skeptic thinks magically&#8211;believing in karma, luck, curses, tempting fate, etc. And it&#8217;s loaded with coverage of studies that involved voodoo dolls, royal spoons, dart boards, and Mr. Rogers&#8217;s sweaters. Check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,48,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind-brain","category-religion","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}