Why is everyone talking about "sailing against the current"?

I feel that our belief in constellation, blood type and zodiac may be a psychological phenomenon called Barnumeffect.

Without explaining its meaning, let's see if the following words are the same as you:

1. You are very eager for others to like you, and sometimes you need others' attention.

Second, you often find fault with yourself and feel that you have many small faults.

3. You like to change and change from time to time in your life, hate constraints and restrictions, and hate rules.

4. You are often very upset, insecure, full of doubts about what you have done, and don't know whether you have done it right or wrong.

You have a lot of untapped potential, and you haven't turned it into your advantage.

6. Sometimes you are extroverted, kind and sociable, and sometimes you are a little introverted, cautious and quiet.

7. Sometimes there are unrealistic fantasies.

Do you think this is accurate? In fact, each sentence is a combination of descriptions of each constellation. What can make you feel the accuracy of constellation, blood type, zodiac and fortune telling is actually the Barnum effect I mentioned above.

What is Barnum effect?

Barnumeffect is a psychological phenomenon, which is mainly manifested in that everyone can easily believe that general and general personality descriptions are particularly suitable for them. When a person is vaguely and widely described, Ta can easily accept these descriptions and think that it is himself.

A psychologist also experimented with this phenomenon. He gave a group of people a personality test, and then took out two results to let the participants decide which one was their own. But most people choose not their own, but the average result of many people's answers. They think this test describes themselves more accurately.

In other words, constellations, psychological tests, etc. In fact, it doesn't need to be particularly accurate. They just give a particularly general description, and our brains will make us believe that this is about ourselves.