Interesting psychological experiment. Bashny.Net

Back in 1948, Professor-psychologist Bertram Forer has an interesting psychological experiment. He gave his students a special test of using these results to analyze their personality. The highlight of the experiment was that the professor actually did not intend to carry out any analysis. Instead of this analysis, the professor gave all students the same text that was taken from normal horoscope.

The text was about this content: "You need to make people you loved and admired you. You are quite self-critical, you have a lot of hidden features that you did not used to their advantage. While you have some personal weakness. You are disciplined, confident-looking, but in fact we tend to worry and feel insecure. Often you cover the serious doubts about the loyalty of the decision, whether you did the right thing. You give an advantage to some diversity, restrictions have caused outrage. Also, you are proud of the fact that to think independently, you do not agree with other people's judgments without sufficient evidence. Sometimes you are welcoming and friendly and sometimes cautious and restrained. Some of your aspirations rather unrealistic. One of the main objectives - stability »
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He then asked each student on a five-point scale to assess conformity of the description of their personality. Average rating was 4, 26. This experiment has been repeated hundreds of times. Thus, Bertram Forer has proven that does not necessarily possess some knowledge in order to guess a person's character, the main thing to say that the forecast was prepared for him personally, you need to add credibility to it, saying that it was prepared by scientists, psychologists, and fill phrases which are suitable for almost all. They must be positive, not negative and specificity. This is enough to make people believe and psychologists, and astrologers.