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A superstition is any belief or practice considered by non-practitioners to be irrational or supernatural. It is commonly applied to beliefs and practices surrounding luck, fate, magic, amulets, astrology, fortune telling, spirits, and certain paranormal entities, particularly the belief that future events can be foretold by specific unrelated prior events.
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| Superstition | is a | deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes | 0.90 | text |
| particular animal behaviors | instance of | whereas the signs category constitutes signs | 0.80 | text |
| Staddon | instance of | He then extended this as a proposition regarding the nature of superstitious behavior in humans.Skinner's theory regarding superstition being the nature of the pigeons' behaviou… | 0.80 | text |
| Simmelhag | instance of | He then extended this as a proposition regarding the nature of superstitious behavior in humans.Skinner's theory regarding superstition being the nature of the pigeons' behaviou… | 0.80 | text |
| who theorised an alternative explanation for the pigeons' behaviour.Despite challenges to Skinner's interpretation of the root of his pigeons' superstitious behaviour | instance of | He then extended this as a proposition regarding the nature of superstitious behavior in humans.Skinner's theory regarding superstition being the nature of the pigeons' behaviou… | 0.80 | text |
| his conception of the reinforcement schedule has been used to explain superstitious behaviour in humans | instance of | He then extended this as a proposition regarding the nature of superstitious behavior in humans.Skinner's theory regarding superstition being the nature of the pigeons' behaviou… | 0.80 | text |
| Superstition | related to Alternative religious beliefs as superstition | Religious | 0.60 | section |
| Superstition | related to Alternative religious beliefs as superstition | Also | 0.60 | section |
| Superstition | related to Alternative religious beliefs as superstition | In | 0.60 | section |
| Superstition | related to Alternative religious beliefs as superstition | Latin | 0.60 | section |
| Superstition | related to Alternative religious beliefs as superstition | Greek | 0.60 | section |
| Superstition | related to Alternative religious beliefs as superstition | Roman | 0.60 | section |
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