association by similarity
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Are not these food taboos rather, Dr. Marett asks, a "misapplication of the ideas of association by similarity and contiguity" amounting to the sympathetic taboos so carefully described by such writers on Magic as MM.
From Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family by Melvin Moses Knight
On the basis of his definition of magic as "a misapplication of the ideas of association by similarity and contiguity," Dr. Frazer divided magic into "positive magic," or charms, and "negative magic," or taboo.
From Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family by Melvin Moses Knight
The machinery of association by similarity is the same, with the addition of a second response, called out by the new characteristics of the present object.
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Robert S. Woodworth
It has been said to consist in quick association by similarity.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
When an object reminds me of a similar object, that is association by similarity.
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Robert S. Woodworth
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