Flutterby™! : magical thinking

Washington Post: A Game of Magical Thinking Leaves Reality on the Sidelines, about ways that humans delude ourselves:

"Rationally, you should not feel responsible at all for the outcome of the Super Bowl," Pronin said. "But the more people perceived themselves as having thought about the game, the more they thought themselves responsible for the game's outcome."

Sent me off in search of Emily Pronin whose web page has few interesting things on how we make some absolutely bogus leaps of... well... logic ain't the right word.