Why do some people believe in horoscopes and fortune telling?

The following paragraph is the material of psychologists. Do you think it suits you too? You really need others to like and respect you. You tend to criticize yourself. You have many abilities that can be your strengths, but you also have some shortcomings, but you can usually overcome them. You have some difficulties in communicating with the opposite sex. Although you look calm on the outside, you are really anxious on the inside. You sometimes doubt whether the decision you made or the thing you did was correct. You like some changes in your life and hate being limited. You are proud of being able to think independently, and you won't accept other people's suggestions without sufficient evidence. You think it unwise to expose yourself too much in front of others. Sometimes you are outgoing, kind and sociable, and sometimes you are introverted, cautious and silent. Some of your ambitions are often unrealistic. This is actually a hat suitable for anyone's head. In life, the typical embodiment of this effect is in the process of fortune telling. Many people think the fortune teller is "accurate" after consulting him. In fact, those who turn to fortune tellers are easily influenced. When people are depressed, they lose control of their lives, so their sense of security is also affected. An insecure person's psychological dependence is also greatly enhanced, and the suggestibility is stronger than usual. In addition, fortune tellers are good at trying to figure out people's inner feelings and can understand the feelings of help seekers a little, and help seekers will immediately feel a kind of spiritual comfort. The fortune teller's next general and harmless words can convince the helper. Two thousand years ago, the ancient Greeks carved "Know Yourself" as an inscription on the doorpost of Apollo Temple. However, today, people have to say with regret that the goal of "knowing yourself" is still far away from us. To explore the reasons, we have to mention the "Barnum effect" in psychology. In daily life, we can't always reflect on ourselves, nor can we always observe ourselves as an outsider, so we can only know ourselves with the help of external information. Because of this, when everyone knows himself, it is easy to be hinted by external information, get lost in the environment, be hinted by the surrounding information, and take other people's words and deeds as a reference for their actions. "Barnum effect" refers to a psychological tendency, that is, people are easily hinted by external information, which leads to the deviation of self-cognition, and think that a general and general personality description reveals their own characteristics very accurately. This effect is named after a popular and famous magician Shoman barnum, who once commented on his performance: His program is popular because it contains ingredients that everyone likes, so people are cheated every minute. A psychologist has done this experiment. After he completed the Minneapolis Multiphasic Personality Questionnaire (MMPI) for a group of people, he presented two results for participants to judge which one was his own. In fact, one is the result of the participants themselves and the other is the average result of most people's answers. Participants actually thought that the latter expressed their personality characteristics more accurately. This study tells us that it is easy to convince everyone that a general personality description is particularly suitable for him. Even though this description is empty, he still thinks it reflects his personality. There was once a psychologist who used a common sentence that was suitable for almost anyone to let college students judge whether it was suitable for them. Results Most college students think that this sentence describes themselves in detail and accurately.