There is no scientific basis for how to convince roommate constellation.

There is no scientific basis for how to convince roommate constellation.

The original text comes from weird psychology. This is a summary reprinted by others.

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The first experiment of 1 is probably the most famous. A Frenchman, Michel Gao Kuilin, once saw a company say that with the help of high-tech computers, accurate constellation analysis reports can be made. Gao sent the information of the murderer Marcel Bedid to the company. The company's forecast includes: "Good adaptability, plasticity, vitality and organization. Willing to abide by social norms, behave appropriately and have a sense of morality. " The report also said that the initial commitment to love life was considered between 1970 and 1972. (Betty De was executed on 1946)

If this experiment ends here, it doesn't really make any sense. People who support astrology will say that any method is not necessarily accurate. However, it was a stroke of genius. He ran to a newspaper to advertise: new communication, free divination, guaranteed sweetness. Results 150 people sent messages. Gao insincerely copied 150 reports and sent them out. The result is that 94% of the students answered your prediction, Jaxy. The proportion of people who believe in People's Daily in China is higher than others. Comments include "incredible", "beyond imagination" and "great", and others are willing to pay for more detailed reports.

Hans Eisenck was one of the most influential thinkers in the last century. His famous saying: "immeasurable, that is, non-existent." So I guess Brother Razor will like this classmate very much ... Eisenck and Mayo, a popular astrologer at that time, cooperated to do an experiment on the accuracy of astrology. Mayo started an astrology school called Mayo College. Students from Mayo College are the subjects of this experiment. The results show that there is a strong connection between birth signs and personal personality.

However, it suddenly occurred to Eysenck that all the students in Mayo College had already believed in astrology. So he did two more experiments later. The object of the first experiment is 1000 children. These children are too young to know that astrology is a necessary means to pick up girls, so they don't know the content of astrology. The result is that personality has nothing to do with constellation. Eysenck found adults for the second time, but at the same time, he also investigated their understanding of constellations. The result is not pornography or violence. If a person knows the horoscope better, his questionnaire results will be closer to astrological legends, and vice versa.

This experiment illustrates a problem. Constellations can't predict personality, but astrology may make people who believe in constellations change their personality in the direction they predict. A similar example comes from the study of Ashanti people in Ghana. The Christian name of Ashanti's child is determined by its date of birth. Moreover, Ashanti people believe that personality is related to Christian names. For example, a child named Kwadwo born on Monday will be considered quieter. The name of the child born on Wednesday is Kouakou, and such a child will be considered to be always naughty. Court records show that the probability of Kouakou's appearance is much greater than that of Quadvo's appearance. The brand that a child is artificially branded at birth will affect his life.

In traditional astrology, constellations are divided into six positive constellations and six negative constellations. The description of the positive constellation sounds more pleasing than the negative constellation. Psychologist margaret hamilton did this experiment. It is found that the proportion of people who believe in astrology in positive constellations is greater than that in negative constellations. This is the so-called "flattery effect".

Since astrology is not accurate, why do so many people believe it? Psychologist Brent freire did a quite famous experiment. He claimed to do a personality test in the introductory psychology class. A week later, he sent his results to every student. In fact, freire gave every student the same result. He bought a fortune-telling book in the street stall the day before, and then copied a few words from it to piece together a paragraph. This passage is very famous and has been used countless times. Many people use it to tease their friends. I extract the following here:

"You need others to like you and appreciate you, but you are usually very hard on yourself. Although you do have some weaknesses in your personality, you can usually make up for them. Your ability in some aspects has not been fully exerted, so it has not yet become your advantage. From the outside, you are a person with strong self-discipline, but you are often anxious inside. Sometimes, you will strongly doubt whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. You tend to change and enrich your life, and when you encounter constraints and restrictions, you will feel dissatisfied. You are proud of being a person who can think independently. Without satisfactory evidence, you won't accept other people's opinions and statements. However, you also think it is unwise to be too outspoken in front of others. Sometimes you are extroverted, approachable and willing to associate with others, but sometimes you are introverted, cautious and taciturn. You have many dreams, some of which seem unrealistic. "

You can judge for yourself whether it is accurate or not. At this time, freire made a survey to ask students to evaluate the accuracy of the results. 87% of the students think this result is accurate.

Freire told the students the truth, but his experiment didn't stop there. A few weeks later, he ran to class and lied that he had lost the evaluation results. Please evaluate it again. The poor students didn't know that they had been cheated, so they wrote an evaluation happily. Ferrer compared the two evaluations and found that half of the students who thought the report was accurate the first time changed their minds, and the second time said it was nonsense. This result shows that those gullible people would rather deceive themselves than admit the fact of being fooled.

7. The above experiment also shows that some ambiguous statements will make people feel very accurate. But it is not only ambiguous, but even some fairly specific descriptions have a broad market. Psychologist Susan Blackmore once investigated 6000 people. The result is:

"About13 people have a scar on their left knee,13 people have a tape or CD of Han Deer's Music of Water,15 people's surname is Jack, and110 people were in their dreams the night before.

The famous psychologist Eysenck has done an excellent job in personality analysis. His personality survey is widely used in modern psychological research. Eysenck sent out numerous questionnaires and analyzed them with powerful statistical methods. His research results show that people's personality is not as complicated as expected, "there are only some differences in several basic characteristics."

The above experiments show that the skill of astrologers is 1. Say ambiguous words and 2. Say a compliment. It suddenly occurred to me that they are no different from the fortune tellers with profound cultural background in China. Compare the difference between astrology and fortune telling in China. I deeply feel wronged for those students who can only set up stalls. But this may be an interesting psychological problem in itself.