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Rescuing Magical Thinking from the Jaws of Social Determinism
Author(s) -
Chandler Michael
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1997.tb01979.x
Subject(s) - psychology , magical thinking , process (computing) , magic (telescope) , aesthetics , psychoanalysis , social psychology , developmental psychology , art , medicine , physics , alternative medicine , pathology , quantum mechanics , computer science , operating system
Although there is otherwise much to recommend it, by riveting attention too narrowly on the contents of magical thought, and by recasting what is left of process in exclusively substantiative terms, this target article works to create the unwarranted impression that the magical thoughts of children and adults are all of a common piece. This commentary reads these oversights and omissions as symptoms of an unspoken new‐situationalism working behind the back of Woolley's review.