The year before last, my mother went to tell my grandmother's fortune. The man said that my grandmother could live up to 20 14, but she got sick in the first year. Then he died.

In our daily life, we sometimes meet fortune tellers who read palms and faces. Even in modern cities, we can often see fortune tellers' divination booths under overpasses, in front of parks and on sidewalks, and there are not a few people who support these fortune tellers.

Although people sometimes know that this is superstitious and suspected of "cheating", there are still many people who are willing to predict their fortune in this way. Moreover, many people who have been "pointed" by fortune tellers will be conquered by the foresight of fortune tellers and prophets, and feel that fortune tellers are very accurate. Why is this? Can fortune tellers really see the past and predict the future?

Psychologists have conducted in-depth research on fortune telling, and he found that fortune tellers can be so accurate, in fact, they use people's psychology of "self-verification" to lead people into their own traps.

Fortune tellers are often good at observing people's psychology and know how to use it to achieve their goals. Fortune tellers often ask fortune tellers ambiguous questions, because ambiguous questions often make people speculate and imagine in their own direction.

For example, sometimes fortune tellers will ask, "Is there a big tree in front of your house?" If there is, you will think that he really knows how to pinch and calculate; If not, he will solemnly say, "Oh, nothing is the best." He seems to wish there were no trees. Sometimes fortune tellers will say, "You have something to do with water." Such words often arouse many associations of people. If you have the word "water" in your name or a radical with three water dots, you will think: How does he know that my name is related to water? If you work in the water conservancy department, you will also be surprised: how does he know that my work is related to water? If there is a river or pond near your home, you will also be surprised: how does he know that there is water next to my home? And so on. You don't need a fortune teller to say anything, you have a lot to do with yourself.

Everyone has a "self-verification" mentality. When they are given a hint, a series of contents related to the hint will immediately emerge in their minds. Therefore, when you hear the fortune teller say that you are "predestined friends with water", you can't help but find out all your experiences or things related to water to prove that you are really related to water, and even think of what happened to your leg cramp when you were swimming. Therefore, you will feel: amazing! How did he know that there was water in my life?

Fortune-tellers use people's psychology to provide some vague information for people to verify themselves, thus concretizing the fuzziness of information and making fortune-tellers feel that they are really scheming and can gain insight into secrets. In fact, all this is "calculated" by the fortune teller himself.

Fortune tellers who are good at "calculation" are often good at setting psychological traps. They can find and summarize effective information from many details, grasp the psychology of fortune tellers, give silent hints to fortune tellers in inquiries and dialogues, and thus take the initiative to get into the "trap" designed by themselves. For example, fortune tellers always tell fortune tellers to be sincere, "If the heart is low, there will be spirituality", which is actually a positive hint to them, so that they can hold a favorable attitude towards themselves. Under the premise of generating trust, it is easy to make the mind of fortune teller go further and further along some tips of fortune teller. And under some vague questions raised by fortune tellers, I tried to recall and associate them and actively proved the accuracy of these words.

The psychology of "self-verification" is a kind of psychology that everyone has, and it is very common in daily life, but fortune tellers only skillfully use this to achieve their goal of cheating money. View from a height or a distance