How to explain astrology as pseudoscience with psychology?

I recommend reading a book, "This is Psychology".

This is an orthodox work of psychology.

In the first chapter of this book, it is clearly pointed out that such mystical things as astrology, palmistry, and face reading are pseudoscience.

For something to be called science, it must first meet three points.

The first is the positivism of applied systems, the second is the generation of public knowledge, and the third is the ability to verify solvable problems.

I won't talk about public knowledge, those "experts" in astrology have indeed created a lot of "theories", and when these knowledge and theories are taken as correct, they are indeed a kind of public knowledge.

In the same way, they can use these theories to verify some problems, but often when they verify the problems, their theories can be "changed as they please".

But when it comes to the most important first point, something like astrology is completely out of the ordinary.

What is Positivism? For example, when an ancient scholar wanted to argue that Galileo had discovered the moons around Jupiter, he made this point:

Man has two ears, two nostrils, two eyes, and a mouth. This corresponds to the two calamity stars, the two auspicious stars, the two shining stars, and an inconsequential Mercury in the sky.

And because there is no positivist concept, the two are related to ancient scholars! There is no connection for any reason. Just because the quantity is just right and in line with the observation, it is determined to be true.

The same is true of astrology, which forcibly associates the date of birth corresponding to the heavenly constellations with people's personalities and fortunes.

There is no empirical evidence, just saying: Ah! Sagittarians are in bad luck today!

Once a certain Sagittarius is really out of luck today, this is a strong argument for them.

How can this absurd logic be called science?

In fact, I personally believed in astrology in the past, and I believe that many people will feel particularly in line with themselves when they see some articles like me, or the analysis of horoscopes in the push, especially when they analyze their own horoscopes. First of all, I myself am a Gemini, and then I sometimes see some evaluations of Gemini, some say fickle, or sensitive, I will feel very in line with myself, but in fact, later, those who believe in astrology, you can look at other zodiac signs, the character of the constellation, judgment, will feel that some of them are in line with themselves, because in fact, the constellation's judgment of people, some of the words he uses are more extensive, or more neutral. Just like the word sensitive I just mentioned, in fact, most people in life belong to the sensitive group, that is, they are more concerned about what others think of themselves, and only a few people can be truly open-minded.

Therefore, no matter what type of constellation the word is used to evaluate it, it is correct. Others will think that what they said is right, this sign is like this.

Then as far as psychology is concerned, there will also be a hint effect, for example, this zodiac sign implies that your personality will be like this, maybe you didn't feel like this before, when you encounter a certain thing, because of the constellations you have seen before, the hints, then you will, after making some behaviors according to that hint, you will feel particularly in line with the previous horoscope. Therefore, from the perspective of psychology, this kind of suggestion, in terms of appearance, the constellation does achieve a suggestive effect on people's behavior, and under this hint, people's behavior will be in line with the astrology, the personality and characteristic analysis.

The four words "Barnum effect", and I don't understand it anymore - "Barnum effect".

I think there is actually a certain scientific basis for constellations. This is actually related to psychology, it is a kind of psychological suggestion, everyone actually doesn't know themselves so well, they can only label themselves, compare them with the horoscope table, this psychological suggestion will make you more and more like the person you want to become, so everyone believes it. <>

Some people think that horoscope divination is just nonsense or childish gadgets; There are also some people who worship horoscope divination as a god, and everything is big or small, and they first look at the results of horoscope divination before making a decision. But it is clear that these ideas are extreme and bad. Personally, I believe that horoscope divination is a form of statistics, a type of statistics that classifies the characteristics of human personality.

A unique horoscope can be obtained by using the year, month, day, time and place of birth, and the characteristics of a person's personality can be obtained through analysis. Note: Recently, I have seen some articles that cite the difference between astrology and statistics in terms of the time of production, in order to deny the theory that astrology is statistics.

It seems that astrology is becoming more and more mysterious! Some people question the accuracy of horoscopes, feeling that the results of divination are sometimes inconsistent, so they arbitrarily conclude that horoscope divination is just a deceptive thing.

This is the result of the psychologist's analysis of the personality of each month, and now many people believe in this because the analysis of this horoscope is really accurate, and it is easy to compare it with their own situation.

Modern science cannot yet explain it, it belongs to the occult science. It can't be denied that it's true, but it's impossible to say for sure. But a large number of facts have proved that there is some evidence.

Hehe! I don't think so, it's like our Chinese genus, saying that the tiger is fierce, but how many children are born in the year of the tiger, are they all fierce?

It's like there is a saying: get married on a rainy day, and take a daughter-in-law who is amazing! Excuse me, on the day it rains in the northeast and doesn't rain in the south, is it good to marry a daughter-in-law!?