Editing Magical thinking (section)

==Related terms==
"'''Quasi-magical thinking'''" describes "cases in which people act as if they erroneously believe that their action influences the outcome, even though they do not really hold that belief".<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/0010-0285(92)90015-T |last1= Shafir |first1= E. |last2= Tversky |first2= A. |title= Thinking through uncertainty: Nonconsequential reasoning and choice |journal= Cognitive Psychology |volume= 24 |issue= 4 |pages= 449–74 |year= 1992 |pmid= 1473331 |s2cid= 29570235 }}</ref> People may realize that a superstitious intuition is logically false, but act as if it were true because they do not exert an effort to correct the intuition.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Risen|first=Jane L.|title=Believing what we do not believe: Acquiescence to superstitious beliefs and other powerful intuitions.|journal=Psychological Review|volume=123|issue=2|pages=182–207|doi=10.1037/rev0000017|pmid=26479707|year=2016|s2cid=14384232 }}</ref>