The Problem With Rituals
Superstition is a kind of maladaptive behaviour that arises from what is normally a very good thing - the ability of the brain to predict.
It seems that the brain is constantly looking for associations between our behaviour, our environment and the rewards that we seek - and quite often, it can come to the wrong conclusions.
If superstitious behaviours arise as a by-product of our ability to form associations, then you would expect more superstitious people to perform better on this task.
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