Paul Rozin, Carol Nemeroff, Marcia Wane, Amy Sherrod
The law of contagion is one of the laws of sympathetic magic put forth about 100
years ago to account for magical belief systems in traditional cultures. This
law holds that when two objects (usually animate) come into contact with each
other, there is a potentially permanent exchange of properties between them. In
a prior study, we demonstrated that this law fits well with a variety of
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