Not wanting to put on a mass murderer's sweater but wanting to hold a pen owned by Albert Einstein is MOST related to:
A) the law of sympathetic magic.
B) the law of contagion.
C) people's mistaken ideas about coincidence.
D) apparent mental causation.

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The law of contagion is a principle from sympathetic magic that suggests objects once in contact with a person retain a connection to them, influencing how people perceive these objects based on their previous owners. Holding Einstein's pen is seen positively due to his genius, while avoiding a mass murderer's sweater is due to the negative association, both reflecting beliefs in the contagion of qualities through physical contact.

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