Interesting sociopsychological analysis: Why do so many people believe in fortune telling?

Just like judging personality by blood type, it is a general description that can be applied to anyone, but people just think it describes themselves. This psychological phenomenon is called Barnum effect. In fact, this psychological effect is very scary. Someone once did an experiment to describe the personality description of type A blood as the personality of type B blood, and then showed it to people with type B blood. As a result, about 90% people think that their personality is very consistent with the description. When you hear people say that you want to be recognized by people around you, that you have a romantic side, and so on. Even if you don't think it's suitable for you, you rarely refute it, say it wrong or your statement is too unclear. Many times, people will agree and answer: yes, yes. Not only do people believe that judging personality according to blood type belongs to Barnum effect, but also people believe that fortune telling belongs to Barnum effect. Especially in the face of very famous fortune tellers, Barnum effect is more obvious, and people are easily moved by fortune tellers' words. In fact, the fortune teller's deception is not clever. In most cases, people with bad intentions want to use fortune telling to harm others. For example, the fortune teller said: You must have been psychologically hurt by the death of a relative or friend. In fact, even young people in their twenties and thirties have at least once or twice experienced the death of relatives or friends, and the death of relatives or friends will definitely bring certain psychological trauma to the parties concerned. Therefore, nine times out of ten, what the fortune teller said is correct, and people who listen to it will think that the fortune teller can really pinch and calculate. In addition, for people who belong to a specific group, we will preconceived that he has a specific nature. For example, the Japanese are hardworking and the British are gentlemen. In fact, this generalization is too general. Not all Japanese are hardworking, maybe not all British are gentlemen. However, it is easy for us to look at others with preconceived colored glasses.