The Neuroscience Of Superstition: With the Super Bowl in sight, we look at what makes some people accept superstitious beliefs and others reject them. The Super Bowl is this Sunday, which means millions of fans and gamblers alike will spend the next 48 hours looking for signs from the universe about whos going to win. If Seattles Richard Sherman gets his dreadlocks tangled into the shape of a W during pregame warm-ups, Seahawks fans will like their chances. If a Denver flight makes an emergency stopover in Omaha--the city that quarterback Peyton Manning famously barks out at the line of scrimmage--Broncos fans will like theirs (except perhaps any fans on that flight). Our brains infer greater meaning from random events in an instinctual way. Read Full Story
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:51:05 +0000
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