Personality & social psychology bulletin
Psychological Approaches to Good Luck: The Role of Rituals in Uncertainty.
Xiang Wang, Keli Yin
Published: 202510.1177/01461672251398619
Abstract
In uncertain situations, people perform physical actions through rituals to attract good fortune. Five experiments (N = 725) investigated the impacts of rituals, uncertainty, physical actions, and psychological distance on luck perception. Experiment…
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