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This needs to be a well-defined psychological principle. I do stuff like this all the time (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (6 children)

This is seen in human society, and is called a Cargo cult

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

More recent scholarship on cargo cults has challenged the suitability of the term for the movements associated with it, with recent anthropological sources arguing that the term is born of colonialism and prejudice and does not accurately convey the nature of the movements to which it refers.

1950s pseudoscience bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, fair, just figured it was a relevant term

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