Psychologists believe that the reason why fortune tellers are so accurate is actually just taking advantage of people's "self-verification" mentality to lead people into their own "traps."
Fortune tellers are often good at observing people's psychology and know how to use these psychology to achieve their own goals. The questions asked by fortune tellers to the people whose fortunes are being told are often unclear in meaning, because questions with unclear meaning often make people speculate and imagine in the direction they believe.
For example, sometimes the fortune teller will ask: "Is there a big tree in front of your house?" If there is, you will think that he can really do calculations; if not, he will say seriously: "Oh. , there is no best." It seems that he originally wished there would be no such tree. And so on. You don’t need the fortune teller to say anything, you have already imagined a lot yourself.
People have a "self-verification" mentality. When they receive a certain suggestion, a series of contents related to the suggestion will immediately appear in their brains. Therefore, when you hear a fortune teller say that you are "affiliated with water", you will involuntarily find out all your water-related experiences or things to prove that you are indeed related to water, and you may even compare yourself to a certain time. Any foot cramps that occur while swimming are related here. Therefore, you will think: It’s amazing! How does he know that my life is related to water?
Fortune tellers take advantage of people’s psychology to provide people with some vague information, so that people can make their own decisions. To seek verification, in order to make the ambiguity of the information concrete, so that the people who are being told fortunes feel that they are really miraculous and can gain insight into the secrets of heaven. In fact, all this is "calculated" by the person who is telling the fortune.