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(Barnum effect), that is, vague self-description can arouse people's sexuality more than accurate self-description.

Barnum effect

Barnum effect (English: Barnum effect, named by Paul Meehl to commemorate Ferniers Taylor barnum, also known as Barnum effect and Foley effect) is a psychological phenomenon. People will give highly accurate comments on some personality descriptions that they think are tailor-made for themselves, but these descriptions are often so vague and universal that they can be applied to many people anywhere.

Barnum effect can provide a very complete explanation for many pseudo-scientific phenomena, such as astrology, divination or psychological test, lottery throwing and so on.

Barnum effect refers to a general description of personality that people often think, which reveals their own characteristics very accurately. When people describe a person with some common, vague and broad adjectives, people tend to accept these descriptions easily and think that they are talking about themselves.

As a well-known technician named Shoman barnum said when evaluating his performance, he is very popular because the program contains ingredients that everyone likes, so he makes "people get cheated every minute". In 1950s, psychologist paul muller named Fowler after Phineas Taylor Barnum, a famous American circus artist. The experimental result was Barnum Effect.

Barnum effect explains why many people think fortune tellers are "accurate" after consulting them, because people who ask fortune tellers have the characteristics of being easy to be hinted, but in fact, fortune tellers say almost the same things to everyone, which are general generalizations and descriptions.