The fortune teller said that postgraduate entrance examination is not the best.

Presumably, everyone has paid attention to some big V astrology bloggers, and every time they see their tweets, they will feel: "Good! /It really looks a bit like me! "

So is divination. When describing our character or what happened, we always feel vaguely "as if it were true." Is it really so amazing? Today, Tuzi will tell you what "secrets" are hidden behind divination.

1. "Warm Reading Method" and "Frey Effect"

The so-called warm reading method refers to using the "Frey effect" to fool each other through some vague and general routine sentences suitable for the vast majority of people.

Bertram Frey, a psychologist, found that it is easy for people to be induced to take vague and general descriptions that apply to the vast majority of people as customized and unique descriptions of themselves.

For example, divination said, "When you were a child, an unfortunate event related to water happened." (Most people had it when they were children. It may be that they were scalded by boiling water, that they choked a few times in swimming, or that the roof was wet from leaking rain. Anyway, the details are all "brain-filled" by you. If you try to remember, you can always find the right experience.

2. Selective attention and psychological suggestion

Why do people who are skeptical about divination later believe in divination completely? This is the interaction of two other psychological phenomena, namely selective attention and psychological suggestion.

The so-called selective attention means that people's attention to things will be influenced by the original ideas. If things or phenomena conform to their original ideas, people will pay more attention to and verify them; On the contrary, if it doesn't conform to their original ideas, people won't pay much attention to and verify it.

For most people, they are skeptical about fortune telling at first, but because the people around them who are convinced of fortune telling vigorously promote individual accurate phenomena, skeptics are often psychologically hinted by the indirect experience of others' "accurate fortune telling". If this psychological suggestion exists for a long time, it will make dubious people unconsciously believe in the "magic of fortune telling"