Magical thinking

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, Magical thinking has been mentioned in one podcast episode on What Your Therapist Thinks (Oct 2025).

Magical thinking or superstitious thinking is the belief that unrelated events are causally connected despite the absence of any plausible causal link between them, particularly as a result of supernatural effects. Examples include the idea that personal thoughts can influence the external world without acting on them, or that objects must be causally connected if they resemble each other or have come into contact with each other in the past. Magical thinking is a type of fallacious thinking and