10/03/2008 PERMALINK
Why people believe in superstitions & conspiracies explained Take away an individual's feeling of control and they will seek to find and impose order on the world using superstitious and conspiratorial explanations. People who's sense of control had been eroded in a previous part of the experiment, found patterns in all types of random data. They saw 'faces in static and detecting conspiracies between acquaintances,' Dr. Jennifer Whitson said. 'This suggests that lacking control leads to a visceral need for order - even imaginary order.' ... University of Texas