You enter the theatre to hear what the psychic you have come to see can tell the audience. You’ve paid your entry fee, milled around excitedly in the lobby beforehand and now the lights are dimming. The psychic gives you the preamble – negative energies interfere with the spirits, no guarantees that your loved one [...]
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What Is Hot Reading?
13 January 2009, 11:19 pm
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What Is Cold Reading?
4 January 2009, 5:22 pm
I’ve been pretty lax in my posting. Back in 2007, I posted about the Forer Effect and had every intention of following it up. Now you know why I don’t make New Year’s resolutions! To rectify that, let’s talk about cold reading. With the Forer (or Barnum) Effect, we saw how making generalised, non-specific statements [...]
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The Forer Effect (aka The Barnum Effect)
21 October 2007, 12:24 pm
Read the following paragraphs and think on them for a few minutes and then rate the statement as it applies to you: You often try to leave an impression on your surroundings that you are stern and rigid, while you are actually an emotional and vulnerable person. Sometimes you are bright, communicative and social, but [...]
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