What is the psychology of people who believe in horoscopes? Can horoscopes be trusted?

In fact, believing in horoscopes can also be regarded as a psychological suggestion.

Or maybe it's comforting.

Generally, I am surrounded by girls who like to pay attention to their horoscopes, and many times they pay attention to their fortunes every day. Many times I will be very happy in the morning because of today's good fortune, and I will also be careful not to provoke others because of the horoscope reminder to be careful. I don't know much about the truth or falsehood of the horoscope, but if I know that my fortune is very good, I think I will actually have comfort and confidence in my heart, and my mood will be quite good.

In fact, the key to the success of the magic circle in many things lies in the mentality, and when the mentality is good, everything will go more and more smoothly. However, if the luck is not good, you will also be careful in everything, to some extent, you will spend your day carefully, and you will also hint in your heart that you will avoid disasters according to the reminders of the horoscope. But I think that I am very careful to remind myself a lot of times to avoid making wrong moves.

However, I think that sometimes I think about a lot of things through the horoscope aspect, and I feel more or less comforted, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

On the other hand, many girls around like to observe the best zodiac sign with them through horoscopes. For example, the boy you like happens to be the zodiac sign that matches you best. Then I will be happy because of such a little thing, and I will have more courage to persevere.

We are often accustomed to finding a reason for our likes and dislikes. I used to watch the console version of "Mischievous Kiss".

At the time, Naoki E.

When tutoring Yuan Xiangqin, Yuan Xiangqin said: "And the horoscope book says that we are Libras."

There are noble people this month, and you will definitely be able to make your wishes come true", and then Jiang Naoki replied very unbearably: "Then does your horoscope book say that we are Scorpio."

This month, commit villains". This plot is particularly influential for me, and I think it's super cute.

People who believe in horoscopes give their fortunes, personalities, etc., to the constellations, which is a kind of unconfident psychology. Constellations are ambiguous and specious, classifying all people's basic personality traits into a certain zodiac sign. Produce a "good accuracy" cue for people who lack judgment.

In fact, things like constellations, delusional attempts to find out a statistical law from complex human nature, basically can't, there are no two identical leaves in the world, let alone such a complex human being. So, for horoscopes, you can refer to but don't believe too much.

2. The effect of "constellation fever".

The positive fallacy effect.

The positive fallacy effect is a perceptual error caused by people focusing only on information that matches their expectations and ignoring other information. For people who believe in horoscopes, once you accept the settings given to you by the horoscope, you can't help but magnify your behavior in line with the horoscope's description.

Group pressure. The phenomenon of "horoscope fever" is not only present in primary and secondary schools, but also among college students and even master's and doctoral students. The horoscope will say:

You see that other doctors believe in horoscopes, doesn't this mean that astrology science? Those who don't believe in constellations will say, "I've read books in vain for so many years, and I still believe in constellations, which is really judgmentless!"

3. The origin of constellations.

The constellations originated in ancient Babylon, one of the four ancient civilizations, and the Babylonians had proposed 30 constellations around 1000 BC. There are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flowing from northwest to southeast, flowing into the Persian Bend, so it is also called the "Two Rivers Basin" area.

After the culture of the two river basins was transmitted to ancient Greece, it promoted the cultural development of ancient Greece. Ancient Greek astronomers supplemented and developed the Babylonian constellations to compile the Ancient Greek Constellation Table. <>

When I first came into contact with horoscopes, I always thought it was amazing. Is it true that people's personalities are related to birthdays? If you're an Aquarius, are you really what it describes to be?

I really read these introductions with a skeptical attitude, and sure enough, these descriptions really resemble me, and I sometimes wonder that this is what I am writing about.

But as I've gotten older, I've been very objective about it. I still don't believe in constellations, but I've gradually learned why people believe in constellations so much.

In my opinion, the descriptions of the horoscopes are very ambiguous, and their clichéd sentences can always include a lot of people, creating a look that you are ruthless enough to fit this characteristic. This also turns out to make sense. I saw a joke about a person covering the names of the constellations in the horoscope book, and when I looked at it this way, I felt that each one was in line with me.

This is the Barnum effect, where people tend to believe that a very general personality description is in line with them.

The second point is also very interesting, man is really an interesting animal. My psychology classmates told me that there is also a kind of prejudice in people. There is a tendency for people to prove without falsification.

People tend to constantly reinforce the ingredients that fit you in the description and ignore the ones that don't. So you feel more and more that this is me.

My psychology student also told me that it might be because of the Rosenthal effect, or the Pygmalion effect. In fact, these are just some high-forcing names, and the most familiar name is the expectation effect. You must have heard of the example of dividing the children into two groups and telling them, "You are divided into one group because of your super high IQ and outstanding ability."

The other batch didn't say anything. As a result, a few years later, the group that was told about its achievements was significantly higher than the others. This actually illustrates the role of psychological suggestion, when you read the horoscope book, because of the first two reasons, you are convinced, and then you will feel that you are such a person.

When you give yourself such psychological hints, you will really become such a person, and in turn you will feel that the description of the horoscope is very consistent.

Based on the above three reasons, I think it is not difficult to understand why some people believe in horoscopes. But in other words, there is no harm in believing in horoscopes, as long as there are no overly superstitious tendencies. At least none of the descriptions in the horoscope book are very negative and harmful to society, so believing it does not have much impact.

As for how to deal with it, I think it's better to be rational.

The horoscope came out when I was in junior high school, at that time there was basically a QQ space or something, there were horoscopes in many places, one day, a week, a month, there were many things about love, work, health, and so on. When I was in junior high school, I also believed in horoscopes (haha), because at that time I thought this thing was similar to fortune telling, it was quite accurate, and I believed that it could really be ** fortune, so I would look at it every day before going to school, and then I felt that I had an understanding of what was going to happen today. Because I had a crush on a girl when I was in junior high school, I basically watched the love part many times and pondered it.

At that time, because sometimes the ** is very accurate, I have always believed it. Later, I grew up, my thinking became more and more mature, and there were many times when the horoscope was very fake, so I began to question it (haha), and then I stopped reading it directly, because I found that these horoscopes are actually written in general terms, and after reading it, you will think about the things you encounter in the direction he said, so you will feel right, but in fact, if you think about it carefully, it doesn't matter much. It's like someone says it's going to be very good today, and then it's really good, but it's raining again, and although he is right, it's not all right.

I think it's a bit unrealistic for people who believe in horoscopes, they believe in fairy tales, they are full of curiosity about this day, and they believe in metaphysics a little bit (haha). Girls should believe more. In fact, it is better to live a good life and make decisions in my own hands.

Constellations refer to one of the essential components of astrology and are also a combination of groups of stars in the sky. Since ancient times, humans have associated groups of stars with their mythological figures or instruments, calling them "constellations".Constellations are the means of determining the orientation of the sky in almost all civilizations, and are widely used in the field of navigation.

The division of constellations is completely artificial, and different civilizations have different divisions and names. Until 1930, the International Astronomical Union, in order to unify the complex constellation division, divided the sky into 88 official constellations, so that each star in the sky belonged to a specific constellation. Most of these official constellations are based on ancient Greek mythology that has been handed down from the Middle Ages.

In the three-dimensional universe, these stars may not actually be related to each other, but they are located in close proximity to each other, which is a spherical shell, and they may be very far apart. If we were in another solar system in the Milky Way, we would see a completely different starry sky. Since ancient times, people have been interested in the arrangement and shape of stars, and it is natural to associate some stars in close proximity to form constellations.

I think people who believe in horoscopes are a group of boring people, they always like to look for advantages in others, and then infinitely magnify, in fact, their own advantages are not so much, they just like to find advantages in others, so that they will have a sense of security, only to feel that they are a person with advantages, in fact, this is very sad, because they don't know themselves at all, they just find their own shadow in others.

The accurate place is just psychological suggestion, and the commonality of all people is written on a certain constellation, so that you feel a little accurate, but in fact, it is the common character of most people. Pseudoscience, superstition.

The theory of horoscopes is ambiguous and specious, putting the basic personality and feelings of all people on a specific so-called constellation, and hinting at people who have no judgment, "this is good and accurate", and these other characteristics are used by everyone.

Besides, people's personalities will change, and their mood will also change with the change of environment, has the constellation changed?

When you add factors such as premature birth, late birth, and caesarean section at birth, it's ridiculous.

It is basically impossible to try to find a statistical law from the complex human nature, and it is impossible for human personalities to be so easy to classify.

I don't believe in these horoscopes for a few reasons:

1. Every child is conceived in October, even if some stars have an impact on the child's personality, why use the constellation of the child's birth to describe it, instead of the star layout of each second of these ten months?

2. There are more than a dozen stars selected in the constellation theory, it seems to be, why only choose these dozen or so? When comets are approaching the Earth, when meteors are approaching the Earth, why not put them in it as well?

3. If the stars so far away from people can have so much impact on people's personalities, then when the child is born, the TV, electric lights, bricks and tiles next to him will have a greater impact, why not consider one, but choose a star so far away?

4. There may be a complete theory of the constellation, but the cornerstone of this theory is wrong, he exaggerates the influence of distant stars on people, and then uses the method of assumption to reason.

5. In terms of conclusions, they are only some poor statistical results, and not conclusions based on the theories of those constellations. I don't know, people's personalities are complex, how can they be described with simple statistics?

On average, 4 people are born every second in the world, and how many people are born in a day? Could it be that people born at the same time have the same personality?

What's more, it is ridiculous to use horoscopes as a necessary standard for courtship.

I think there are three reasons why a significant number of people believe in horoscopes: horoscope culture is suitable for socialization, subconsciously influences one's own behavior, and is a popular hobby that can provide a circle of communication.

Zodiac culture is good for socializing

I believe that many people will encounter such a scene. In a gathering of friends, when you meet someone you don't know, after exchanging names, you are often asked about your zodiac sign. This is the embodiment of the horoscope culture that is suitable for socialization, because it is something that everyone has, and this question will definitely be answered, accordinglyAfter getting the message that someone is a certain zodiac sign, you may talk about hobbies related to this zodiac sign, and use this as a starting point to get to know each other betterZodiac culture is best developed among young people, because the frequency of young people making friends is much higher than that of other types of people, and horoscope is a topic that is very easy to talk about in their interactions, especially at the beginning of the acquaintance stage, because it canOpen an opening so that each other has something to talk about.

The subconscious mind influences its own behavior

There is a saying becauseThe "Barnum Effect".The Barnum Effect refers to the fact that people are prone to believe in a general description of their personality and think that it is particularly appropriate for them and accurately reveals their personality traits, even if the content is empty. My understanding is that when we look at the interpretation of the constellations, we are actually "looking for identity", most of the interpretations of the constellations are relatively general, and the personality descriptions of various constellations are actually common to peopleBut when each of us goes to "reinterpretation", we will automatically ignore those that are inaccurate and absorb those that we recognize.

A typical example is: if there is a "xx dog don't talk about it", if the ex happens to be this sign, there will be a strong sense of identity. But weIt does not mean that the interpretation of the horoscope is worthless, or that it is completely incorrect.

People need to agree, especially when we encounter something that cannot be explained by reason, we need to find a relatively reasonable explanation in other places and find a sense of identity. So when we're studying horoscopes, we're actually looking for explanations for the part of our personality that we identify with in our careers and relationships. In a sense, horoscopes and religious beliefs are identical.

"When you choose to believe, He is the answer".

It is a popular hobby that provides a circle of communication

This is very easy to understand, constellation culture is liked by many people, even if people who are not interested in occasionally brushing up on their own constellation commentary when brushing **,There is a high probability that they will stop and take a look。There are many people in life who may become friends and establish friendly relationships because of their zodiac signs. It's one in itselfCover all the peculiar hobbies as everyone will find their own zodiac sign, and the relevant analysis of the constellation, the horoscope commentary is also endless, as a public hobby, it is very qualified, and it will not collapse.

The horoscope is a thing that is true as long as you are willing to believe it.

That's all