Why can some constellation books and fortune telling books predict people's character "accurately"? Aquarius is rational and loves freedom, Virgo pursues perfection and cleanliness, and cancer is emotional and loving. The following is a collection of reasons I collected for you. Let's have a look!
After everyone knows their own constellation, they go to see the words described in the constellation and find that they describe themselves very appropriately and have great trust in the constellation.
But when you summarize the words describing the constellation, you find that the words "rationality", "sensibility" and "pursuit of perfection" are very vague and general. If you change the words of the constellations described above, for example, Aquarius is emotional and loves freedom, and cancer is rational and loving, you will find that this is also very right.
So are constellations predicting your character? Or do constellations set your character?
Barnum effect
This effect holds that it is easy for everyone to believe in a general and vague personality characteristic to describe himself. Even if the description is empty, even if it can't describe the person at all, it still thinks that the description is about yourself. This effect is a psychological phenomenon proved by psychologist fuller through experiments, which explains the reason why constellations make people believe to a great extent. It is also called astrological effect.
Like many words describing constellations, they are empty and meaningless, and the range of meaning is too large. Like rationality, sensibility and perfection, these words are really empty and have a wide range of applications. To put it bluntly, saying is to say nothing. This term is applicable to the vast majority of people. Everyone has a rational or perceptual side. They show different aspects in different periods because of different environmental factors.
So why is this psychological phenomenon?
From a psychological point of view, Is "subjective verification" It means that when you have a point of view to describe you, you think it is good and you can accept it, and you will accept it to a large extent. Then you will take the initiative to find evidence to prove this point of view and collect all kinds of evidence in life. Even if this point of view has nothing to do with you, you can also collect some trivial evidence to convince yourself.
Most importantly, in the process, your consciousness will automatically ignore the evidence that cannot prove or refute this view.
To a certain extent, constellations and zodiac make use of this psychological weakness to spread. When we analyze the words in constellations, we will find that there will be more benign and neutral words to describe constellations and less inferior words. Even if they appear, they are irrelevant to people's character. What is mentioned above is only one layer, and another layer is the commonness of people.
Human genes are statistically similar. The brain mechanism formed by these similar genes is also consistent. Even if people live in different cultural environments, people themselves have a lot in common.
For example, in the words describing constellations, everyone has two words, such as rationality and sensibility. If you say Aquarius is rational, I may not refute it, but other constellations are also rational! This makes no sense.
So how can we avoid this situation?
The first thing to do is to recognize yourself and face yourself correctly. You can't blindly cover yourself with methods and pull some irrelevant personality characteristics onto yourself when you think you have defects. Secondly, we should collect all our own information, not selectively ignore some information, and then use this information to think carefully and make appropriate decisions to judge what kind of person we are.
Constellations are just entertainment. If you are serious, you will lose!