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The Full Facts Book Of Cold Reading
Book • 2019
This book systematically describes a wide range of techniques used in cold reading, enabling readers to understand how psychics, mediums, and mentalists create the illusion of having psychic abilities.
It covers various methods, including vagueness, fishing for clues, and other psychological manipulation techniques.
Although primarily descriptive, the book also touches on the application of these techniques in other fields such as sales, negotiation, management, and therapy.
It aims to demystify cold reading by explaining its logical and psychological basis rather than promoting supernatural claims.
It covers various methods, including vagueness, fishing for clues, and other psychological manipulation techniques.
Although primarily descriptive, the book also touches on the application of these techniques in other fields such as sales, negotiation, management, and therapy.
It aims to demystify cold reading by explaining its logical and psychological basis rather than promoting supernatural claims.
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Michael Shermer as a book containing hundreds of things you can say when performing a cold reading.
Michael Shermer as a book containing hundreds of things you can say when performing a cold reading.
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