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The Psychology of Superstition — 48 episodes

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Social Identity and Shared Myths

2

Mass Panic — How Belief Spreads Through Crowds

3

Economic Behavior and Lucky Thinking

4

Conspiracy Thinking — When Superstition Goes Collective

5

Superstition in Politics — Fear as a Tool

6

Cognitive Dissonance — Defending Belief at All Costs

7

Threat Detection and the Survival Brain

8

Predictive Brain — How the Mind Invents Meaning Before Evidence

9

The Dopamine Effect — Why Superstition Feels Rewarding

10

Why Superstitions Never Fully Disappear

11

When Coincidences Feel Like Messages

12

Digital Myths — How Media and Technology Create Modern Superstitions

13

Anxiety and Uncertainty — Why Fear Makes Superstition Stronger

14

Memory and Belief — Why We Remember Proof That Never Existed

15

The Illusion of Control — Why We Feel Responsible for Randomness

16

What Superstition Reveals About Us

17

Why Superstition Never Truly Disappears

18

Breaking the Spell — How Superstitions Lose Their Power

19

Curses and the Mind — When Fear Becomes Destiny

20

Fate or Coincidence — When Random Events Feel Meant to Be

21

Dreams and Destiny — When the Night Feels Like a Message

22

The Curse of Objects — Why We Believe Things Can Hold Bad Luck

23

The Power of Ritual — Why Repetition Feels Like Protection

24

Numbers and Belief — The Psychology of Luck and Counting Fate

25

Food and Fate — Superstitions at the Table

26

Lucky and Unlucky Days — When Time Itself Feels Cursed

27

Death and the Supernatural — Rituals, Spirits, and the Fear of the Restless Dead

28

Mirrors — Portals, Reflections, and Seven Years of Bad Luck

29

Weather Superstitions — Reading Fate in the Sky

30

Animal Omens — Black Cats, Ravens, and Other Creatures of Fate

31

Witchcraft — Fear, Power, and the Human Imagination

32

Astrology — Fate Written in the Stars

33

Gambling Superstitions — Luck, Chance, and the Illusion of Control

34

Cursed Objects — When Things Carry Misfortune

35

Dreams as Omens — Do Our Night Visions Predict the Future?

36

Omens — Reading Signs in the World Around Us

37

Lucky Charms — The Psychology of Magical Objects

38

Haunted Houses — Why We Fear Certain Places

39

The Evil Eye — Envy, Belief, and the Fear of Being Watched

40

The Curse Effect - Do We Really Believe in Hexes?

41

Friday the 13th - How a Date Became a Global Symbol of Bad Luck

42

When Belief Becomes a Burden - Superstition and Obsession

43

Born Lucky? The Psychology Behind Feeling Fortunate

44

Game-Day Rituals - Why Athletes and Fans Are So Superstitious

45

The Ritual Instinct - Why We Knock on Wood and Repeat Habits

46

The Power of Numbers - Why 13 Is Feared and 7 Is Blessed

47

The Evolutionary Origins of Superstition

48

What is Superstition? A Psychological Perspective