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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 'lucky girl syndrome' appears to be just the latest in a long history of magical thinking that we humans find so bewitching," West said. "Like most forms of magical thinking, [lucky girl syndrome] draws on a grain of truth but rapidly turns into fantasy," West said. "Lucky girl syndrome is not much different from the gambler's 'lucky streak' or 'gut feeling,'" West said. Someone wins the lottery using some magical thinking and claims that it was the magical thinking that did it.