Superstition are typically seen as
inconsequential creations of irrational minds. Nevertheless ,many people
rely on superstition thoughts and practices in their daily routine life
in order to gain good luck. To date, little is known about the consequences and
potential benifits of such superstitions. My research aims to identify the
underlying of superstition and its psychological mechanism explaining why some
smart people believe in such weird
things and how deos superstition improves performance.
Table of
Contents
a.
The
definition of superstition
b.
A
list of some famous american superstitions
c.
The
superstitious person
d.
Superstition
and coincidence
e.
Growing
up superstitious
f.
Superstition
and culture
g.
Superstiton
and religion
h.
Superstion
and sport
i.
Superstition
and education
j.
How
does superstition improves performance ?
k.
Why
do people believe weird things ?
l.
expectant
mothers take superstition seriously
m.
is
superstition in the US abnormal irrationalor neither ?
n.
conclusion
o.
references
Background
To
understand my research, the reader need to have a background about some
american superstitions , also to read about the psychology of superstion and
how does it work, and how do americans deal with it.
My
research question came from a discussion between me and my friends about
moroccan superstition, one of my friend said that we have such superstitions
because we are a primitive culture, if we were a civilized culture like America
we would not have it. I told him that
America has superstitions too and it is a part of their culture and it is
interpreted psychologically ,but he did not get conveinced. So i took the
challenge to show him that he is totally wrong . Beside this reason, my
intersts have been always about cultures and traditions,and now i get the
opportunity to work on it profoundly.
So
far, i found that superstition is present in the US , we can touch it in
many areas in sport , education,
religion..and so on. Also i found a book
talking about the psychology of
superstition, how do superstitious people think ? superstition and coincidence, what factors
that make people think and believe in superstition.
Questions
There
are many questions that are guiding my research one of them are :
How
do americans deal with superstition ?
What
is the psychology of superstition ?
Does
it exist in all the areas of americans life ?
Description
of proposed research
I am
planing to answer my questions by using books, articles,and websites as well.
For the method, i am thinking of using analysis of previous research,
questionnaires and maybe some interviews with american people.
List
of sources
So
far i find these references :
Stuart
Vyse « Believing in Magic the Psychology of Superstition» 1997
Michael
Shermer « Why People Believe Weird Things » 1997/2002
John
O. west « Mexican-American Folklore » 1988
Harry
Collis « «101 American
Superstition » 1998
Lysannn
Damisch,Barbara Stoberock, and Thomas Mussweiler « Keep Your Fingers
Crossed ! How Superstition Improves Performance » 2010
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