The Science of Superstition: Why Our Brains Believe in Magic

Welcome Groovers to a special episode on the spooky aspects of Halloween superstitions. That's why we have a sound of Yeah, that that's why we ha actually have a sound effects department to take care of that. You don't have to. That's a that I did not know that.

If I would have known, I would not have done my own ghost impersonation there. But now that you tell me that, I'm I'm like feeling foolish, you know. Well, here we are, and what we want to talk about are superstitions. And we and because Halloween is full of all kinds of superstitions, and of course We also know that superstitions are much broader than just Halloween, but we want to talk a little bit about why superstitions are universal and why they make sense to our brains to have them in the first place.

And then there's some positive aspects of having a superstition and some negative aspects of having a superstition. And we want to talk about those as well. And then if we're lucky, I'm going to sneak in a little bit of a musical reference here. If we can if if if if we are your lucky did you wear your lucky socks today in order to get that musical reference in there? There's your lucky shirt.

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