Association bias can be even more primitive than that, harking back to a time when magical thinking dominated the human mind.

A Johannesburg city councilor interrupted a pro-Israel Jewish colleague with remarks about Nazi tyrant Adolf Hitler at a Thursday meeting and threatened to wear a shirt emblazoned with Hitler’s ...

For example, most people would balk at the idea of wearing Hitler’s sweater, to the extent of condemning and ostracising anyone who didn’t (contagion bias). Years ago, on a wine research trip ...