HW8: The Psychology of Superstition (Article3)

      Is magical thinking hurting or helping you? This are one some questions that bothers us in our mind. We always think that magical or miracles are might be happen in to our lives, but it is only our imagination that can't be happen. If you're like most people, you occasionally participate in superstitious thinking or behavior often without even realizing you're doing it. Where is the last time you knock on the wood, walked within the lines, avoided a black cat on a street and lastly read your daily horoscope? People can't deny that they doing like this superstition especially when they are very superstitious. According to a recent Gallup Poll, more than half of Americans admitted to being at least a little superstitious. Addition to that, beliefs in witches, ghosts and haunted houses are all popular in Halloween symbols that  have increased over the past decade.

  But what about in the Philippines, how they cope in their own superstitious beliefs especially when it is a bad-luck superstition. We can not deny that even though it is bad-luck superstition many Filipinos still rely on it.  Do Filipinos think that superstition go far? As a writer of this research, I think that is going far because it is originated in our culture and it is usually there in our lives. In this believe, I don't think that all people who believes in superstition will be suffer, because it is their decision if they want to be affected to this kind of superstition.