Talk:Magical thinking

Piaget

" "egocentric," believing that what they feel and experience is the same as everyone else's feelings and experiences." - I am not disputing that he stated this, but believing in universality of experience is in a sense the opposite of ego-centric, it is rather being unaware that ego is an ego (That I am a me). When we use "egocentric" about adults we mean persons who are aware that other people have distinct inner lives, but who dismiss these others as unimportant or irrelevant. By contrast "believing that what they feel and experience is the same as everyone else's feelings and experiences." is quite a different thing.137.205.101.81 (talk) 08:59, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Outdates sources feed the racism

It's telling that the "anthropology" section is primarily citing early 20th century research. I see I'm not the only one to point out the obvious racism of cited works, too. ("The Savage Mind"? Yikes) That doesn't reflect current anthropological attitudes or research in any meaningful way and should at least be flagged until it's fixed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HawthornePaws (talk • contribs) 02:46, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Superstitions in Muslim societies for deletion

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See also

I cut down the ridiculously huge See Also section from 25 (!) items to 7. I tried to do this systematically, e.g., removing most of the specific cognitive biases, since we have the Cognitive bias article linked, removing “list of superstitions” articles, removing “therapy that cures” magical thinking and several mental illness articles (since we don’t say magical thinking is generally a sign of mental illness), etc. I have no attachment to the 7 I left, and so more could be removed, some could be swapped out, etc., but 25 is beyond excessive, especially when a number of them were only very tangentially related to the topic. ThanksForHelping (talk) 22:13, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

Possible POV issue?

This seems to be biased on the assumption that thoughts can't affect reality in this way. Isn't this biased, in the same way that it would be biased for an article to definitively state that God doesn't exist? Sparkette (talk) 00:25, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

If you would like to make a specific edit to the article, you can ask about it here. Be sure to back it up with reliable secondary sources! OverzealousAutocorrect (talk) 18:35, 9 February 2024 (UTC)