RFT and magical thinking: hypothesis
A hypothesis: is it possible that the period of ‘magical thinking’ in the development of children (enduring until adulthood) is depending on the development of processes central in RFT: developing of mutual entailment, literality of thoughts, reason giving and causal thinking? When children are developing those skills, but aren’t fully acquainted with them, they might more easily fall in the traps of magical thinking.
Possible test: children who are later in developing those skills, should show delayed magical thinking too (and vice versa).
Francis De Groot
francis.de.groot@fracarita.org