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deCypher



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People with good-luck charms set higher goals and feel more confident than those without.
#13885999 - 02/01/11 02:08 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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From The Week:
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Good-luck charms give you an advantage--if you believe they work. In a series of experiments, people who carried a lucky charm set higher goals and felt more confident than those who left their rabbit's foot at home. It's that confidence--not magic--that makes the difference. In one test, subjects who'd been told that a golf ball was "lucky" tended to perform better than those who were simply handed the ball. "Superstitious behavior won't help you win the lottery," says psychologic Barbara Stoberock. "But it could help you win a sporting event or pass a test."
http://www.tonic.com/article/the-magic-of-lucky-charms-they-work/
Time to start wearing your lucky pair of boxers before you venture out your door in the morning?
-------------------- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
 
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Joolz

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Re: People with good-luck charms set higher goals and feel more confident than those without. [Re: deCypher]
#13886004 - 02/01/11 02:10 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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Well, as creators of our own reality of course being positive and believing that luck is on your side is going to make it happen, Captain!
-------------------- Prohibition didn't work for God; Eve ate the fruit.
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deCypher



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Re: People with good-luck charms set higher goals and feel more confident than those without. [Re: Joolz]
#13886014 - 02/01/11 02:16 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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Indeed. I wonder how the results would have compared between people carrying their lucky charms and people just using positive thought about their luckiness. Which is more effective?
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Joolz

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Re: People with good-luck charms set higher goals and feel more confident than those without. [Re: deCypher]
#13886020 - 02/01/11 02:18 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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I figure that'd be tough to gage. If you have a little bracelet on your arm that you look at once a minute and go "come on good luck!" you'll probably have more than somebody who just thinks positively. I think it really just comes down to how strong our intentions are.
-------------------- Prohibition didn't work for God; Eve ate the fruit.
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jacobensis
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Re: People with good-luck charms set higher goals and feel more confident than those without. [Re: Buckthorn]
#13886499 - 02/01/11 07:48 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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my dad (rest his soul) always told me that a man that is prepared can make his own luck. i believe that. i think some one who is a "i can do it" person will have more success than, a person who is a "i cant do it" type of individual.
-------------------- There are 2 types of people, mycophobes and mycophiles R.Wasson
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Re: People with good-luck charms set higher goals and feel more confident than those without. [Re: jacobensis]
#13886509 - 02/01/11 07:52 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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"Luck is infatuated with the efficient"
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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I AM SWIM
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Re: People with good-luck charms set higher goals and feel more confident than those without. [Re: jacobensis]
#13886512 - 02/01/11 07:53 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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i think i can, i think i can, i think i can
 the little thang that could
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ROFL_my_ WAFFLE


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Re: People with good-luck charms set higher goals and feel more confident than those without. [Re: I AM SWIM]
#13886903 - 02/01/11 10:24 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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I AM SWIM said: i think i can, i think i can, i think i can
 the little thang that could
Now THAT'S a blast from the past. I remember my aunt reading that to me when I was four.
As for the good luck charms, I definitely think that if you 'believe' in good luck and embrace it then perhaps you will have it.
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Re: People with good-luck charms set higher goals and feel more confident than those without. [Re: ROFL_my_ WAFFLE]
#13886991 - 02/01/11 10:44 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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good ole positive illusions, they never fail to amaze and disturb me.
-------------------- Why shouldn't the truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. -- Mark Twain
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Icelander
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Re: People with good-luck charms set higher goals and feel more confident than those without. [Re: Kickle]
#13887074 - 02/01/11 11:04 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Kickle
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Re: People with good-luck charms set higher goals and feel more confident than those without. [Re: Icelander]
#13887088 - 02/01/11 11:10 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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True enuf guess we just play with the cards we're dealt
-------------------- Why shouldn't the truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. -- Mark Twain
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c0sm0nautt

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Re: People with good-luck charms set higher goals and feel more confident than those without. [Re: deCypher]
#13887213 - 02/01/11 11:46 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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fazdazzle
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Re: People with good-luck charms set higher goals and feel more confident than those without. [Re: deCypher]
#13888145 - 02/01/11 02:52 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yea dog good luck charms and nice permission slips, ain't they?
Without one, what then do you have confidence in?
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