'Lucky girl syndrome' trending on TikTok is just old-school magical thinking, psychologists say

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'Lucky girl syndrome' trending on TikTok is just old-school magical thinking, psychologists say
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A new technique for manifesting one's goals has gone viral on TikTok. So-called"lucky girl syndrome" may sound like a condition most people would like to have, but the psychology behind it is shaky at best and misleading at worst.

The law of attraction taps into the idea that people can manifest whatever they want in life by simply speaking it into existence; similarly, lucky girl syndrome encourages individuals to repeat mantras such as"Things are always working out for me, no matter how it looks in any point in time" and"I will attract everything I desire.

That's not to say that it's inherently bad to have a positive outlook on life, said West."But that is different. The danger of believing that we can achieve things just by imagining them is that it actually stops us doing the things that would make our lives, and those of other people, better," he said.—It might stress you out to know what stress is doing to your brain

And if by chance, a person's risky gamble does pay off, they may attribute the result to the power of magical thinking. In some ways, lucky girl syndrome also echoes a concept called"learned optimism," said Leslie Gutman , a professor of Applied Developmental and Health Psychology at University College London in England.

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