Is there really such a thing as fortune telling?

To some extent, a wild guess can be accurate!

Fowler effect

Fowler and many psychologists later proved through experiments that when faced with a general and vague description of personality, people often put it in the right position with their own situation, and then feel quite accurate. This is the Fowler effect.

You can try if you don't believe me. Look at this passage:

You like others, like you and appreciate you, but you are not satisfied with some small shortcomings in yourself. Although you have some weaknesses in your personality, you can usually find ways to make up for them. You have some potential, but you haven't fully tapped it. On the surface, you are self-disciplined and self-controlled, but inside you are often anxious. Sometimes, you will strongly doubt whether your decision is correct. You want to make your life colorful and don't like being tied down. You like to think independently and don't trust other people's opinions. However, you also think it unwise to be too frank with others. Sometimes you are extroverted and willing to associate with others, and sometimes you are introverted, cautious and taciturn. You had a lot of dreams, some of which seemed very unreliable.

After reading it, do you feel in a trance that you are talking about your feelings?

The fallacy of positive case effect

Virgo, for example, wrote in her horoscope that she tends to be perfectionist. At this time, you will think-yes, I will feel particularly uncomfortable if I get 90 points but only 89 points ... In fact, everyone has some perfectionist tendencies in some way, but the horoscope book only tells you that you are a Virgo and a perfectionist, so you exclaim: How accurate!

Rosenthal effect

The words in the constellation book are also a kind of "Rosenthal lie" in a sense. Because you believe in the horoscope book, your own horoscope should be like this, and your behavior is gradually like what the book says, so you feel more and more like the person written in the horoscope book. At the same time, you don't just "believe" in astrology books, but simply "believe"-unconsciously take this as your life criterion!

Now you should understand that it is not the stars hundreds of millions of light-years away, the natural blood type, or the mysterious tarot cards that determine the fate of your character ... but what can deceive you most is actually not the "prophet" who writes the eight-character book, nor the "master" who can read and judge words, but your own heart.

These words are adapted from the world of middle school students, I hope they will help you.