Smart fortune tellers are psychologists.
Why do people fall for fortune tellers?
In fact. Everyone has a rough idea of ??themselves or something. For example, a woman wants to buy a floral skirt. Although she thinks the skirt is very beautiful, she still asks her colleagues around her if the skirt is good. When her colleague said yes, she would be very happy to buy it. In fact, she just wanted to use other people's "mouth" to express the answer in her heart.
In the same way, if you meet a girl who cries and complains about her boyfriend, the fortune teller will say: Your relationship is not going well, and you have to pay more than your boyfriend. If you meet a gloomy young man asking about your career, he will say: You are full of uncertainty about your future. You have had bad luck recently and there are obstacles in your career. These answers "hidden" in people's hearts come out of the "mouth" of the fortune teller.
There are also some fortune tellers who are accustomed to telling the character of the person consulting when looking at the palm prints. There is usually a sentence that is universally applicable: "You are talented and smart, but some of your potential has not yet been realized." "You are sincere to people and attach great importance to feelings." "Sometimes you are very diligent, sometimes you are very lazy, and you don't want to do anything."... Phenomenons like these that are sexual, ambiguous, and in line with the public will make people think when they are placed in anyone: " Wow! What an accurate idea.
Of course, some fortune tellers are smarter. Here's an example. A woman once said that a fortune teller said her husband had brothers or sisters. Generally speaking, there are only two situations for people, they have brothers and sisters or they are an only child. The lady's situation happened to be that of the latter, saying that the fortune teller was wrong. So at that moment, the fortune teller counted again and said: "It must be true, it was his mother who aborted the pregnancy." Haha, look, when "not allowed", the cunning fortune teller will cleverly resolve it. !
In the same way, people will feel that the descriptions of horoscope personality analysis, zodiac personality analysis, and blood type description are suitable for their own situation. From a psychological perspective, people will easily believe a general description of a general personality and think that description fits their situation very well.
Foreign researchers once conducted a test on this. They sent the birthday information of Hitler, the founder of World War II, to a company that claimed to be able to use high-tech software to obtain accurate horoscope reports (paid a high fee for the report), and found more than 50 people who did not know Hitler. Fans of horoscopes with specific birth dates join the discussion. Researchers asked these zodiac enthusiasts about their views on the personalities of different zodiac signs based on the data, and the results were consistent with most zodiac information books. Finally, the researchers asked all the horoscope enthusiasts present what zodiac sign they thought Hitler was. Everyone present thought that the sinister and vicious Scorpio was Hitler's zodiac sign, and only two people thought it was the perfectionist Sagittarius. But in fact, Hitler's birthday is in April (Aries), which has nothing to do with these two zodiac signs. The Horoscope Company also failed to accurately summarize Hitler's character, and also "inaccurately" predicted that Hitler "likes animals very much, is caring, likes small animals, and loves peace."
Fortune telling, horoscope In addition to psychological reasons, predictions such as zodiac signs can also be explained by probability. Things have two genders, so these predictions often have a 50% chance of winning. "You are a compassionate person and like small animals." Such a popular description works most of the time, but of course there is a 50% chance of failure.
I hope the above is helpful to you.