The Deployment of Personal Luck : Sympathetic Magic and Illusory Control in Games of Pure Chance  

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Enzle, Michael E. ; Wohl, Michael J.A. ; Wohl, Michael J. A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 28 no. 10 (2002), page 1388-1397.
Topik: personal; pure chance; personal luck; sympathetic magic; illusory control; deployment
Fulltext: 1388PSPB2810.pdf (95.28KB)

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In three studies, the authors expand on Langer’s (1975) illusion of control model to include perceptions of personal luck as a potential source of misperceived skillful influence over non-controllable events. In an initial study, it was predicted and found that having choice in a game of chance heightened both perceived personal luck and perceived chance of winning. In additional studies, hypotheses were tested based on the proposition that luck perceived as a personal quality follows the laws of sympathetic magic. The results showed that participants acted as though luck could be transmitted from themselves to a wheel of fortune and thereby positively affect their perceived chance of winning. Results are discussed both in terms of the previously unexamined connection between illusory control and beliefs in sympathetic magic and as an extension of the illusory control model.

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