Leading up to the election, many people may have thought they would jinx their preferred candidate if they stated that they believed he or she would win. This belief that one's thoughts or hopes can ...

Over the years, I’ve observed that there are two main modes of thinking in the business world: artful thinking and magical thinking. The two are opposites. I believe that artful thinking is key to ...

At some point in our adolescent years, we’ve all played MASH, shaken magic 8 balls, blown on dandelions, and picked off daisy ...

Diego de la Cruz, "The Mass of Saint Gregory" (c. 1490), oil and gold leaf on wood (all images courtesy Princeton University Press) A significant part of Koering’s thesis is that in the pre-Christian ...

We can live a comfortable physical life, she explains, but if we’re “extremely online” or even just “an average amount of online” we will be exposed to more information than our brains can handle.

There are many definitions of Magical Thinking. One is the belief that a person’s hopes and desires can have an impact on current circumstances. Example: the firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

Washington often indulges in magical thinking, as politicians conjure new budgetary gimmicks or announce ambitious goals without concrete plans to achieve them. The Trump administration’s latest hocus ...