I have FINALLY started reading "Quirkology" (: I love hard cover books!
Okay, I am going to try and predict your personality. Just follow my instructions(:
Done? Cool! I'm done too! Ready? :D Alright, click Okay, I can't think of way to generate a unique URL for everyone-.-|| So my "trick" won't work. I'll probably trick the village women (namely, Mabel and Sivan) and Scotchey only. *runs away before I get killed*
But if you have the Quirkology book, look at the little experiment/study on page 15(:
I seriously thought the description was about me! And then I read the rest of the study and when "ERM....".
Astrology readings are usually accurate as they are really general and they play on flattery. Besides, there's no way of proving them wrong because they are so general!
Even seemingly specific statements from astrology readings can be true for a large percentage of people, such as "You have someone in your family name Jack!". A study conducted by psychologist Susan Blackmore of 6000 people found that a fifth of the population had a "Jack" in their family and a tenth had spent the previous night dreaming about someone they hadn't see for a long time! (An excerpt from the book)
Here's another little interesting information-
Imagine that your favorite soccer team (Arsenal, Man U, etc) won a match. What will you say?
How about if that same team lost the match?
Did you say, "We won!" and "They lost!" ? (:
Here, we have "Basking in Reflected Gory", a psychological phenomenon taking place! Most people are subjected to this so no worries, it doesn't mean you are selfish/have a huge ego/hate losers or anything.
(FYI, I never say "They lost!". I always say, "We LOST?!?!?!" )
This book contains quite a lot of weird and funny psychology experiments that are probably left out by journals. But they are really interesting! I am only at the first chapter and some experiments/study that really caught my attention was the one on financial astrology, human ability to control the time of our death and chronopsychology!
I would recommend it to anyone!(: Buy it or borrow it from me!! (:
If you know more books like this, RECOMMEND IT TO ME!
Off to read chapter 2(:
Okay, I am going to try and predict your personality. Just follow my instructions(:
- Make sure you are in a quiet or conducive place.
- Clear your mind of all interruptive thoughts.
- Take a deep breath.
But if you have the Quirkology book, look at the little experiment/study on page 15(:
I seriously thought the description was about me! And then I read the rest of the study and when "ERM....".
Astrology readings are usually accurate as they are really general and they play on flattery. Besides, there's no way of proving them wrong because they are so general!
Even seemingly specific statements from astrology readings can be true for a large percentage of people, such as "You have someone in your family name Jack!". A study conducted by psychologist Susan Blackmore of 6000 people found that a fifth of the population had a "Jack" in their family and a tenth had spent the previous night dreaming about someone they hadn't see for a long time! (An excerpt from the book)
Here's another little interesting information-
Imagine that your favorite soccer team (Arsenal, Man U, etc) won a match. What will you say?
How about if that same team lost the match?
Did you say, "We won!" and "They lost!" ? (:
Here, we have "Basking in Reflected Gory", a psychological phenomenon taking place! Most people are subjected to this so no worries, it doesn't mean you are selfish/have a huge ego/hate losers or anything.
(FYI, I never say "They lost!". I always say, "We LOST?!?!?!" )
This book contains quite a lot of weird and funny psychology experiments that are probably left out by journals. But they are really interesting! I am only at the first chapter and some experiments/study that really caught my attention was the one on financial astrology, human ability to control the time of our death and chronopsychology!
I would recommend it to anyone!(: Buy it or borrow it from me!! (:
If you know more books like this, RECOMMEND IT TO ME!
Off to read chapter 2(:
1 comment:
"Astrology readings are usually accurate as they are really general and they play on flattery. Besides, there's no way of proving them wrong because they are so general!"
Coincidentally, I've just blogged about astrology a couple of days ago and that is exactly what I think too!
Anyway, Quirkology sounds like a good book. Will check it out after my exams. :)
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