Take the 2-minute tour ×  There are many theories/disciplines
that have been categorized as pseudoscience in the scientific
community.  The list includes many things that are regularly
even quoted in media like graphology, astrology, psychoanalysis,
personality types, etc.     • What attracts people to such
theories? Do any cognitive biases make people believe them
easily? Which part of pseudosciences acts as a stimulus that
triggers this cognitive bias?    • If there's a cognitive bias
behind people believing in pseudoscience, knowing that a
majority of the population does that – is there any term for
such a phenomenon in social psychology?    • A majority of the
population believes in some kind of pseudoscience. Does this
signify an evolutionary aspect of our minds – that people are
still evolving into better species that might one day believe in
proper science? Pseudoscience seems to be older than science;
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the irony of your last question. You