Why does your horoscope seem so accurate? Is it possible to believe and not believe in something at the same time? And is Mike a classic Gemini?
- SOURCES:
- P. T. Barnum, 19th-century American showman and businessman.
- David Brooks, New York Times Opinion columnist.
- Bertram Forer, 20th-century American psychologist.
- Daniel Kahneman, professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University.
- Irving Kirsch, associate director of the Program in Placebo Studies and lecturer in medicine at Harvard Medical School.
- Sten Odenwald, Director of STEM Resource Development at NASA.
- Sydney Page, staff reporter for The Washington Post.
- Jane L. Risen, professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
- RESOURCES:
- "Young People Are Flocking to Astrology. But It Comes With Risks," by Sydney Page (The Washington Post, 2023).
- "The Age of Aquarius, All Over Again!" by David Brooks (The New York Times, 2019).
- "Response Expectancy and the Placebo Effect," by Irving Kirsch (International Review of Neurobiology, 2018).
- "Believing What We Do Not Believe: Acquiescence to Superstitious Beliefs and Other Powerful Intuitions," by Jane L. Risen (Psychological Review, 2016).
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman (2011).
- "Effects of Stress and Tolerance of Ambiguity on Magical Thinking," by Giora Keinan (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1994).
- Changing Expectations: A Key to Effective Psychotherapy, by Irving Kirsch (1990).
- "The Fallacy of Personal Validation: A Classroom Demonstration of Gullibility," by Bertram Forer (The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1949).
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
