Psycho-Social Factors Contributing to Superstitious behavior and its Management: Literature Review

The present article reviews on researches on psycho-social factors contributing to superstitious behaviour and its management. In western countries so many researches has been conducted on superstition. Some researches shed some light on social and psychological factors responsible for superstitious behaviour. Psychological factors include fear, locus of control, confidence level etc. and social factors such as, locale, socio-economic status etc. management refer to the counselling to control superstitious behaviour. Superstitions exist everywhere in the world. Every country on the planet has its own local superstitions. Each country also has its own variations on common superstitions. Some of the most common superstitions have to do with cats, alcohol, and death. Most superstition from the past have been proven by science as unnecessary, ineffective orjust plan silly but are still practiced by normal intelligent people today. Around the world, there are many reappearing themes for superstition. Every country has its own localized take on each theme.Superstition is quite common in human society. For example, a huge number of newspapers and magazines carry regularly horoscopes, which indicate the high demand for reading horoscopes. Different researches touch the different aspect of superstitious behaviour in different situation. This research review article is an approach to compile these researches to shed light on all these aspects.