Sentence examples for superstitious thinking from inspiring English sources

"In particular, superstitious thinking springs from misunderstandings of probability and random processes, errors of logical reasoning, and cognitive short cuts that sacrifice accuracy".

Though I'm sure Richard Dawkins would not believe it, there was very little "magical" or "superstitious" thinking in evidence.

Although rational enlightenment thought and the scientific progress it has brought with it have reduced much of our magical and superstitious thinking, it has also led to a hesitation to discuss such issues for fear of losing scientific respectability[ 49].

Buddhism and Taoism have received far greater official support due to their deep roots in Chinese culture, but during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and '70s, even these religions saw their temples ransacked and desecrated as relics of "superstitious" and "feudal" thinking.

So innateness was triply condemned: it was born of superstitious religious thinking, it is scientifically false, and it is philosophically beside the point.

In fact, later decisions did the opposite, holding that judges can accept even a "silly or superstitious" reason like a lawyer thinking that a prospective juror's mustache is "suspicious"—as long as it doesn't explicitly invoke race.

These days I think of that way of thinking as a bit superstitious in nature.

In fact, later decisions did the opposite, holding that judges can accept even a "silly or superstitious" reason — like a lawyer thinking that a prospective juror's mustache is "suspicious" — as long as it doesn't explicitly invoke race.

"I know how right wing this sounds," I recall him saying, "but I was thinking how pornography could be a superstitious offering to the gods of a dying race".

And we've actually studiously avoided thinking about names because mostly because I'm superstitious and I feel like that would jinx it.

The multimodal approach in the THP includes specific cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) strategies to identify and modify maladaptive thinking styles, in particular fatalism and inability to act, superstitious explanations and somatization, to substitute more adaptive ways of thinking and to use behavioural activation to rehearse these strategies between sessions.