Is constellation pairing credible? Is there a scientific basis? _ Is constellation pairing credible? Is there a scientific basis, Zhihu?

Is the constellation accurate? Is there a scientific basis?

There is still a certain scientific basis.

As early as 1948, psychologist bertram Fowler discovered a phenomenon through experiments: when describing a person with some common, vague and extensive adjectives, people tend to accept these descriptions easily and think that they are talking about themselves. This phenomenon is called Barnum effect.

Constellation's description of a person's personality is mainly based on barnum's influence. Putting some general descriptions on specific constellations is actually related to psychology and is a psychological suggestion. Everyone actually doesn't know themselves that well, so they can only label themselves and compare them with the horoscope. This kind of psychological suggestion will make you more and more like the person you want to be, so everyone believes it.

Constellation origin

Western constellations originated in Babylon, one of the four ancient civilizations. It is said that more than 20 constellations, such as the so-called ecliptic 12, were born in Mesopotamia about 5000 years ago. Since then, the Babylonians have continued to divide the sky into many regions and put forward new constellations.

Around 1000 BC, 30 constellations were proposed. Ancient Greek astronomers supplemented and developed the Babylonian constellation and compiled the ancient Greek constellation table. In the 2nd century A.D., Ptolemy, an ancient Greek astronomer, synthesized the astronomical achievements at that time and sorted out 48 constellations. He connected the main bright stars in the constellation with imaginary lines and imagined them as images of animals or people, and gave them appropriate names in combination with fairy tales. This is the origin of the constellation name.