你們都被黑布蒙蔽了雙眼 You re blind.

You have a great need for other people to like and admire you. You have a tendency to be critical of yourself. You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage. While you have some personality weaknesses, you are generally able to compensate for them. Your sexual adjustment has presented problems for you. Disciplined and self-controlled outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure inside. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You pride yourself as an independent thinker and do not accept others' statements without satisfactory proof. You have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. At times you are extroverted, affable, sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, reserved. Some of your aspirations tend to be pretty unrealistic. Security is one of your major goals in life.

祈求受到他人喜愛卻對自己吹毛求疵。雖然人格有些缺陷，大體而言你都有辦法彌補。你擁有可觀的未開發潛能尚未就你的長處發揮。看似強硬、嚴格自律的外在掩蓋著不安與憂慮的內心。許多時候，你嚴重的質疑自己是否做了對的事情或正確的決定。你喜歡一定程度的變動並在受限時感到不滿。你為自己是獨立思想者自豪並且不會接受沒有充分證據的言論。但你認為對他人過度坦率是不明智的。有些時候你外向、親和、充滿社會性，有些時候你卻內向、謹慎而沉默。你的一些抱負是不切實際的。

Later studies have found that subjects give higher accuracy ratings if the following are true:

• the subject believes that the analysis applies only to him or her
• the subject believes in the authority of the evaluator
• the analysis lists mainly positive traits

後期的研究發現，假如以下的條件實現，實驗對象將會對於分析給予更高的準確評價：

• 實驗對象相信該分析只應用於他們身上
• 實驗對象相信分析者的權威
• 分析主要集中在正面描述方面

讀後感

The Forer effect(Barnum effect)，當一個人在缺乏安全感，自信心，情緒低落，對自已的生活失去控制感，心理上希望依賴別人，內心就渴望被人認同(因為自已不願面對自我)，逃避現實，這些心理狀態就好像被黑布蒙頭，特別容易受外來言語、行為所影響，什麼也看不清楚，「對號入座」。打破自已的懦弱，打破自已的恐懼，打破自已內心的爭扎，接受自已的懦弱，勇於嘗試，勇於面對自已缺陷，做正確就事不要猶豫太多，這些都是成長的必經之路，並無SHORTCUT。

P.S. 以上也解釋了星座、占卜、睇相、算命等等能夠普及的原因。

參考資料:

Dickson, D.H.; Kelly, I.W.. The 'Barnum Effect' in Personality Assessment: A Review of the Literature. Psychological Reports. 

大紀元文化網 心理學中的巴納姆效應

wikipedia forer effect