Belief in witchcraft is widespread around the world, according to a new global study that involved more than 140,000 people – but it's highly variable from place to place.
, and the study notes that is"most certainly an undercount", given the sensitivity of discussing witchcraft for some respondents.
Although witchcraft beliefs are more common in some countries than in others, they still"cut across socio-demographic groups" in each country,A map showing country-level prevalence of witchcraft beliefs around the world. Gershman notes that pollsters asked about magic and witchcraft in many different ways, but at least one relevant question appeared in every survey.
This new dataset also lets Gershman look at the links between witchcraft belief and a variety of individual-level and country-level factors. At the national level, witchcraft beliefs are associated with weak institutions, low levels of social trust, and low innovation, Gershman reports, as well as with conformist culture and higher levels of in-group bias."Moreover, their prevalence is systematically related to a number of cultural, institutional, psychological, and socioeconomic characteristics."
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