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How Psychics Exploit Our Cognitive Biases
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
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A fortuneteller's ability to read your future might seem magical, but those “psychic powers” have way more to do with psychology than the supernatural.
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Perfect timing: I was just trying to decide whether or not to finally start learning Turkish. Guess that´s a yes!
I love how this video was all about how psychics are scamming people yet it was sponsored.... That sounds a little scammy to me and hypocritical.
@@IxAMxSMILEY Whut? Open and honest sponsoring is now a scam?
psychics know how to exploit many glitches on the human mind's hardware and software
Please do an extensive video about how psychological exploitations are used by governments, religions, and corporations to control the individual.
The confirmation bias is my favourite bias.
Because every time I experience it, it reminds me that it's the best.
Cognitive bias quote
"Most people don't really want the truth. They just want constant reassurance that what they believe is the truth"
Hmm, this has inspired me to do an animated video on this topic...
Lol, perfect!! Don't tell psychics that!!
Haha, awesome stuff Mr Planet Psych
I predict i will like this quote
@@cruzcastillo6227 Yep
That's a good quote, I'm glad I thought of it 😉
Me and some of my friends do Tarot but fully acknowledge that it's basically Barnum statements. We basically treat it as a tool to aid in introspection which is still very useful even if the tarot cards themselves aren't really doing much but giving an angle to look at our lives and problems from.
I use them the same way! It's interesting to confront what you feel about a reading and whether or not you agree with it
Same, it also has the added bonus of pissing of my more religious and homophobic family members.
I use it the same way. It feels like you're bouncing ideas off another person, someone who might give you a different take on things. Whether you believe in a high power or spirits or not, it can be very helpful. Like if you're asking about possibly taking a new job, a negative card might might make you realize some risk you might not have considered before. Or if you're hesitant about a fiend who was giving you trouble and you get a positive card, you might be more willing to see things from their perspective and give them a second chance. If you're just starting out, you have to make sure you aren't just feeding your own confirmation bias, though. Being a good card reader for yourself is all about knowing yourself, so you'll get better over time. Experience can prevent you from just validating your own preconceptions about the situation you're reading for.
@@n3v3rm0r3 Religious I get, but homophobic? What's that got to do with Tarot?
@@jacksonpercy8044 they are homophobic because they are religious, and I have an issue with them because of their homophobia. So I use the Tarot to pissed them off.
*shows this to everyone who annoys me with astrology*
Typical Capricorn 🙄
@@rabbitwho No it litterally bloody doesn't
90% of astrology people are aware its bs but that it's fun anyway, like online personality polls that tell you what spongebob character you are, etc
@@canesugar911 I’m a Capricorn 😭 and I don’t believe astrology to be a statement of truth of who a person is but I just find it funny I don’t get along with most Virgo’s I meet but get along with a lot of Aries so I know everything isn’t accurate because people’s real personalities aren’t all the same. Who else isn’t a Taurus who LOVES food lol
I once read into a huuge book about astrology in the library, because I was curious of how someone can write so much about something that doesn't exist, and Every. Single. Thing I read in it was a Barnum statement.
• People are often surprised at how applicable their horoscopes usually are to them, but they rarely bother to read the other sign's horoscopes to see that they are usually equally applicable. ¬_¬
• Houdini really hated fake psychics and scammers and fought hard to expose them, but _South Park_ probably had the best take on them and cold-reading on in the episode "The Biggest Douche in the Universe". 😀 (Speaking of Houdini, he was really distraught when a psychic told him that after he dies, they'll be able to conjure his spirit and make him say whatever they want and there's nothing he'll be able to do about it. 😕)
• Peter Popoff is a big fan of hot-reading. He'd have people at the entrance get people to fill out forms before going in, then they'd tell him stuff from the forms through his ear-wig. And people actually fell for it… after they filled out the forms. 🤦 Some people just can't be helped. 🙄
• Your late grandma wants you to pay your taxes with Steam gift-cards. Go get them before the sheriff puts you behind the bars.
You have to remember that by and large psychics are preaching to the choir. They don't have to do a lot of work influencing their customers because well, they are customers lol. They clearly already believe in this stuff. It's a self selection bias. For a lot of those people you don't even need to hide the scam all that well, they have already fooled themselves.
I always liked Nebuchadnezzar's line of thinking when it comes to psychics: You can't trust a psychic to tell you something you don't know until they can tell you something you do know. That is, something only you know, and they couldn't have guessed or looked up.
I wonder how many psychics would pass the test of having to recite the dream their client had in the morning.
@Van
It's one thing to be able to guess someone might have had a certain dream "recently" (pretty vague). It's another to be able to recite the specific dream had right before the appointment. And the savvy way to do this is to be sure not to lead the witness in any way (i. e. instead of saying, "yes, I was falling through the sky from a plane," say "was I on something before falling through the sky, or was there no context to the falling?").
Another one; when talking to large audiences, they will get more specific...without saying who the thing they're saying applies to. If you get enough people together, there are lots of things you can be reasonably sure will apply to some of them.
I wrote a horoscope for a student magazine, and deliberately made it ridiculous by saying things like "This week with the Sun rising in Uranus, your future looks bright". I thought that everybody would realise that it was meant to be satire. I was gobsmacked when several people told me they thought it was real, and accurate.
You underestimate people foolishness XD
What does "the Sun rising in Uranus" even mean?
@@NovaSaber Some silly people seem to think that the stars and planets align to predict their future, and that the universe actually cares that they exist. 🙄
Everybody should've known that was fake. The sun don't shine there! ;-)
reason why the church does so well
Oh, y'all are going to get some real interesting emails for this one
You must be psychic!
"A mystical process known as googling your client ahead of time"
I keep forgetting we all own magical glowing crystals in our home that answer any questions we might have. Psychics don't need a crystal ball, they already got a quartz laptop
This makes me think of that Adam Ruins Everything episode
Don't get it, someone explain please
I've found that this all also applies to religious leaders. Only they attribute what they do to 'the holy spirit' or some other supernatural thing giving them their insights.
Brit, you used your psychic power because I was literally having this discussion a few days ago!
Patrick Jane laughs at psychics.
" there is no such thing as psychics". - Patrick Jane
Can you please do more videos on cognitive biases please? They would be super helpful to everyone.
I have a lot of respect for SciShow for giving any potential viewers who have fallen prey to these types of scams the benefit of the doubt and explaining the mechanism behind it without condescension.
Good job as always, Sci Show. The world is better because of your team!
One time I used these tricks against a 'psychic' to not only keep them from figuring me out, I got into _their_ head and made them think I was legit a mind reader >:3
Did you pay them?
If there are youtube videos of people doing what you did I would totally watch them.
Mollytov Xx no, I almost made them pay me XD I could have given them lessons....
Jackson Percy maybe I should do that as my thing XD
@@DoctorX17 You're guaranteed to get at least one view & like if you do 😉
Hell yes! Brit has such an amazing voice. I'm absorbing her knowledge into my body!
You're not stupid, they're just scamming you out of your money.
This is also somewhat how religions work
*exactly
They just can't afford pissing off so many people so they chose the psychics instead
Thank you for these videos!!!
¡Excelente video! Lo hemos agregado a una de nuestras playlists sobre sesgos cognitivos :) ¡Felicitaciones por el buen video!
Ah yes. How physics exploits our mental bias.
I liked what Jonathan Edwards used to do on his show. He would wave around on one side of the audience and say something, "I sense the presence of someone... male... the person's name starts with a J... someone's father who died recently."
You have an audience of something like 200 people who want to make contact with someone they lost. You're selecting half of them. Someone in that group of 100 people is going to have a father who died whose name starts with J.
a family friends brother is claiming to be one. Hes completely fooled my mom into thinking hes contacting my recently deceased sister. Its so messed up and i cant change her stance on it. What are the odds that in our sample pool someone has "powers" as if those exist. She just looks at me with a smile and says, okay... okay youre not open to the truth. How do i keep loving my mom like this? Shes not open to changing her stance because it lets her feel closer to her dead daughter. I want to respect her like i always have, but anyone would be able to tell she's clearly coping and grasping for straws in her delusion. I dont know what to do, i miss respecting my mom. I cant respect her when she believes something so disprovable
This also applies to astrology. If you know enough about roman and Greek lore and you print a map of the solar system with an outline of the constellation, You just have to trow in a few Barnum statement constructed with that knowledge and suddenly you you have Horoscopes.
Quick example, Mars is in the sign of you client, you just say "due to mars being in [insert sign] be prepare to face some conflict", since mars is the god of war. Even more generic is "you are prepared to face any conflict that can come your way" which is more Feel good then telling him conflict will come. If your client knows their ascendants and other bull crap then you will have to work a bit harder for your statements to be general enough to hit home. That's why Online and newspaper horoscope stick to just the birth sign.
There is an other form of horoscope which is called a sky map(that's how we literally call it in french, I don't know the English). You have to know the positions of the planets for every month and basically construct and horoscope for the whole year in advance for a client. My mother still gets those done even If if I could literally predict what horoscope would say by looking into a Astronomy application. she had one done for me too once and although I was a bit into it back when that happened, the lady who made it was explaining it to me and I would in other words formulate what she was about to explain because I knew the roman gods enough to know what each one would mean.
It aint rocket science, it's just the Art of bullshittery. It is still a usefully art if you find yourself back in early medieval or ancient time. You will rise the social order quite quickly
the tv show leverage has a great episode about this called the future job! highly recommend both the show as a whole and that episode specifically
Thanks- now I can send this to my mom
And learning about cognitive biases helps in making decisions in politics.. and not following cults that don't give sources but give wrong predictions that people forget or dismiss.
Q is real. Wake up sheeple!
@@jellyfishbrained But Q is real what? Have you ever asked yourself that? Other than what Q tells you and others he/she is? You don't really know that person do you? You don't know who is behind Q and their true purposes. They could be anyone online, like you or me.
Q is like a psychic who does a cold reading. They will tell you things that make you feel special, so you ignore the other things. Q has used generalities instead of pinpointing exact information even to those followers who push for definitive details around Q's predictions. And the predictions that fail, there is always a ready explanation. Cognitive and confirmation biases.
@@ursaltydog Lol it was sarcasm. I should've indicated it somehow, I guess.
Is Q what you were referring to?
@@jellyfishbrained Sorry, I didn't pick up on the sarcasm.. usually I do.. ;)
I'm a psychic and I wasn't expecting this video
And I don't blame u at all!! Im a sincere Empath and am serious. All of these answers made me kinda upset and laughable. People who do not believe should NOT be here.
@@seanascala2947 stfu
Shots fired!! 😂 🔥
My mom went to a psychic once, who told her she'll have 3 kids. My mom stopped her and told her she already has 3 kids, and is currently pregnant with the fourth. She even gave her a way out, and tried to "bragain" with the psychic that maybe she saw 3 pregnancies and not 3 kids (this was only the 3rd pregnancy, cause twins). Psychic refused to back down from her non-barnum 3 kids reading and made my mom stressed for the rest of the pregnancy, which ended with a healthy birth and we're still 4 kids 18 years later.
I just want to say, she's one of my favourite hosts in SciShow
I didn't see that coming!
It's not at all unusual for people who do psychic or card readings to do cold-reading subconsciously, and pick up a good bit of information by instinct, and then come to believe that they really do have The Gift! They're falling prey to exactly the same cognitive biases that trip up their clients.
This is also something I do a bit when counseling others. I'm not necessarily trying to trick them so much as help them realize they kinda already have the answer they want lol XD.
I've found that using tarot or reading cards as a way to help guide introspection is quite helpful. Rather than blindly trusting the readings as "telling the future" or being "all knowing" it's more a form of meditation and helping sort out my problems and priorities. I suppose it helps that I don't really go to other people for readings, but mainly do them for myself lol!
I was thinking this while she was talking. Like, maybe some readings can actually be insightful. If the psychic says something that strikes a chord with you, but you hadn't thought up yourself before (such as the grandma being proud of you example), it might be beneficial prompting to explore your own thoughts.
As a tarot reader myself I believe that I am actually helping people. I want people to walk away from my reading with a better perspective and hopefully a positive one. I don't always talk about relatives and I don't always talk about the future. I generally care about how people are doing and what they might be going through this video to say it's all fake is a bit insensitive because there are many people all over the world that go to psychics everyday.
@@IxAMxSMILEY I definitely see your point! I think there are ways to read that are productive and there are ways to read that are counterproductive. Your goal to help people get a better perspective on their life is in my eyes a productive way to read! You're helping guide them to deeper understanding of what's going on in their lives and encouraging them to reflect and perhaps approach problems from a different angle.
I knew they were gonna say this.
I have I always thought subconsciously this is what was going on, even in my curious earlier years when I played it, but it is intriguing.
I'd love to know more about how the minds of people who believe they are psychic work. My sister believes she is psychic and words and voices in her head are guiding her to answers that she wouldn't have known otherwise...like a voice told her that the Tupperware container for a stray lid was in a particular cupboard. Instead of thinking she remembered...she attributes it to "intuition".
Not all psychics are trying to scam you. Many of them actually believe they have some sort of ability.
This video made me look up star signs. What I found was like: "Leo likes taking holidays". With that I understood the extent of the Barnum statements
I thought this said, "how physics exploit our cognitive biases", and was confused at the beginning of this video :S
same! but then I just went along with it
Me too....
26 psychics didn't see this video coming.
I've read horoscopes sometimes, as someone who is a total sceptic and can barely even remember what my sign is. I decided not to try to remember, and approach them all equally and see what I thought of them. Sure enough, most of them applied to me, although some more than others. Some I thought were genuinely good life advice. However, a few of them didn't apply to me at all, and that made me wonder about people who actually believe in them that get one that's inaccurate to them. Does it make them wonder? Do they somehow make it fit them, or somehow kid themselves that it does? Do they change themselves for it? I sure hope not! Anyway, in conclusion they seem like a useful tool to look through if you're feeling a bit lost or just need a little advice, but just do what I did and decide for yourself which one fits you best. But yeah, I've always been pretty sceptical with those general statements. I think "Yeah! ...Well, not really." And then think of all these examples of how it doesn't really fit me, and I realise that it could apply to pretty much anyone reasonably well. So I just think "Huh. Smart, but you don't fool me." Also I'm not that normal I guess... I question everything _(everything)_ and also I guess maybe my abnormalness is part of the reason they don't quite fit me anyway.
You should do a video on how people gas light other people using religion / cults.
Thank you for correctly pronouncing "biases." 💯
I try to reserve the long "e" sound for pluralizing words that end in -is ;) -Brit
@@natureleague so many "academics" mispronounce plurals. It's refreshing to see one not falling for the ”attempts at sounding smart" by pronouncing certain plurals like "crises." Processes and biases are the usually victims. It's refreshing to hear someone who knows better. Thank you.
@@johnjanney For sure! I happen to really love language and etymology, which makes it easier. Always nice to meet another word nerd ;)
To be clear, this find was a more recent deep dive into some Greek, so it's totally possible I use the long "e" in a previous video (who knows). What's great is that it's never too late to learn and correct :)
@@natureleague lol, it's be great if SciShow Psych did an episode, but they'd likely upset a lot of people. 😆
I predict I will like this video.
Now, to watch it.
Science!
Barnum got this market on lock!
Yay, I was wondering if there was a phrase for those type of truisms.
I honestly don't feel like I fall for this stuff as bad as others :/ I'm sure everyone thinks this but aren't some people more susceptible to scams than others?
For instance, I've always noticed horoscopes are too general and relatable but also there's always a tid bit that doesn't apply. If this is a prediction, I don't ignore the stuff that doesn't apply.
Yeah, I'm the same way... I also believe I'm a psychic so since I tend to hate reading generalized statements, I try to be either as accurate as I can be, or don't try at all. Most people in my life don't know I'm a psychic but when I do make predictions or otherwise psychic-like statements, it almost always turns out to be true in a very convincing way.
Whoa, how did you know I was thinking of learning another language?! 😦
I always despised Horoscopes for that reason
I read it as "physics" and didn't realize until halfway through the video.
Q: do brain tumor / cancer cell"s synapses fire?
like do (f)mri or eeg detect activity?
could normal brain cells somehow interface with them?
too late i spend 200 dollars of my future reading :) I was told I would one day smell roses and this woulld be jesus telling me i am loved ! my teller must have been working for the church $$
The Barnum effect there's one born every minute
Please do a video on the psychology of circumcision. Thank you!
SciShow Psych, how did you know i started believing in the existence of real psychic powers yesterday, for the first time in years??? are you a psychic youtube channel?????
Psychic: I can see that your father's name is James if not it's michael. If it's not it's John.
Me: oh I'm a chinese. My father's name Ye lin xiao.
Psychic: get out.
Creaky Blinder just covered this topic
I should try consulting a psychic and see where that goes. I am very empathic and have a talent to read people, and I think I have a very good eye for conversation tricks - I use that in my daily job a lot. Could a psychic even "hack" an overanalytic person like me?
What I want to know is why so many women firmly believe in such things, even to the point where if you don't, they see it as a negative.
It's one thing to say that you don't believe in it It's another thing to say that it's all completely fake because that's not respecting that person's belief.
@@IxAMxSMILEY Well, I didn't say anything about accusing of it being fake, though... it is. What you said is a bit of a double-edged sword too. Astrology is a good example for both of these points:
It was never properly adjusted for leap years, making the whole calendar of it completely off-sync. It's _literally_ fake. Meanwhile, there are those who change the way they interact with you strictly because of your sign. So ironically, the only reason your sign has any influence is because they basically force it to be that way, and use it as a crutch for bad behaviors.
I am well within my right to not show respect for someone who treats people a certain way because of some random person's generalized opinion of what kind of personality you get because of an artificially-defined star pattern (let alone, the WRONG one), instead of actually getting to know the person.
One was arrested in Florida ripping poor man off.
What’s the difference between a psychic, psychologist and psychopath?
How do you mean "your horoscope isn't real"? 😱
Lol sarcasm... I hope?
@@maszlagma Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't 😉
The best way to "beat" a psychic, is to never meet one in the first place.
Though, I am left to wonder how well some of this works on people who are autistic, which don't necessarily have as many of these sorts of built-in mental shortcuts, and what ones' are present don't necessarily work in the same way as those in neurotypicals?...Or, at least from what I can gather, NTs have some sort of built-in pattern recognition and response generation mechanism, vs needing to shuffle through memories and extrapolate from previous similar scenarios, and then filter possibilities and/or switch scenarios as new events come in. Presumably things may function differently on the input end as well (or, at least, usually an emotional response doesn't occur until after deciphering what the other person is trying to say and then realizing any implications; which is often difficult given how ambiguous people tend to be sometimes...), and it seems like these things would be less likely to both have an effect and go unnoticed. Then again, psychology can be curious sometimes...
I think I now know why I hate psychics.
Annette Martin: Gift of the White Light. ...when you're ready.
I believe psychic power isn't real, but I still want to explore astrology. Historically speaking, it's one of the oldest practices ever recorded by many ancient civilizations (Greek, Persian, Indian, Chinese etc.) Amazing how it still exists and ingrains in many societies, including mine. I know about the Barnum effect and be aware of it though.
I have to admit that I'm kind of surprised that no *believers* in psychics have trashed this video, excoriating you for being blind to truths more profound than your tiny mind can understand. ;-/ *I* got that response once, when I commented under a post about the so-called "Hollywood Psychic" who's duped so many celebrities. Despite the fact that the whole video was about debunking psychics, and everyone else in the comments section was debunking psychics, my mention of this particular guy brought down the wrath of some moron upon me. Maybe it was because I called him a twerp. ;-) Anyway, I just ignored the commenter. There's no point in arguing with idiots.
Can psychics read skidmarks.
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Nice necklace.
Yeah but it's fun
I totally misread the title, I was super curious how physics affects your cognitive biases.
Now to turn these biases against the psychics during the reading.
What confuses me are the ones that do it for free
Some might think they help people by telling them white lies about someone who died so they can go on with their lives. I think they also do it to feel good about themselves tho
Some people genuinely believe they have supernatural abilities.
Some psychics are cons. Some psychics are delusional.
because some psychics actually generally care about people and a lot of people go to psychics because they're going through something that they're questioning and they just need advice. a lot of psychics actually care about people and emotions and want to make someone feel better. Psychics don't always talk about the future and they don't always talk about a relative either. To say it's all fake is a bit insensitive. Psychics help people all over the world every day.
Brit is always getting more beautiful and amazing. What a woman...
Turns out I am not the only one who read physics instead of psychics.
psychics know how to exploit many glitches on the human mind's hardware and software
Watch anything by Derren Brown. This guy says he's cheating and using clever misdirection and yet the things he does will convince you he's magical. Mentalism is the only field of magic which people still have a hard time accepting it's just a trick.
Commercial psychics, I love it. I'm only calling them that now.
1:25 how the comments work.
Knew that. It’s called social Engineering apart of cyber security.
Anyone else concerned that a language-learning service is called Babbel-incoherent speech?
How could we be politically incorrect at astrology but not with psychology/psychiatry/religion as they're not science based?
(and it's emerging child: gender).
I'll leave this here.
I had a reading with a well known psychic many years ago. I knew beforehand not to volunteer information. All she knew about me was my name and where I worked. There were a few things she told me she had no way of knowing, such as my father wanting to be a policeman (he wasn't one). No one outside of the immediate family would know that. As the Brits would say, I was gobsmacked.
Yes, there are fakes out there, and there are people who do know things they couldn't possibly know.
@Fredrik Lindgren no one in my family wanted to be a policeman so she would have gone wrong with me. You can doubt the accuracy of the reading, but it's not a reasonable guess.
Using those 2 they can find your social media, and can know a lot about you.
This reading took place way before social media was a thing. All the woman knew about me was I worked in this store, I had helped her on two separate occasions, and my first name. Not where I lived, not my last name, nothing about my family. The first thing she asked me at the reading was when did my father die. Even if she knew my last name and my father's first, there are quite a few people with that same name in my hometown. Again, this was before the rise of social media, so not easy to track down information. And with all the people I've met in my life, no one expressed a desire to be a policeman.
I'm not getting defensive or saying anyone's wrong, I'm just saying this is what happened to me, and it made me wonder. Others results may vary. 😉
It would have been fair to say that these techniques can be used by some people who give psychic readings. It would also have been fair to mention that there are reputable psychics with metaphysical skills that they use ethically.
Just like horoscopes! It's a hit or miss bs.
Bisayawa!
So what you're saying is that, thanks to my brains shortcomings, I will get scammed no matter what? 😶
PLEASE TALK ABOUT AUTISM IN FEMALES
My mother in law was a card reader. She said a reading is like a counseling session. She never took money. She believed that God had give her a gift to help people. So that's what she did.
As a card reader myself I wouldn't exactly say it's a counseling session but I do believe that I help people and I help people feel better about their situation so I totally agree with your statement. Thank you for posting
It sort of is in the sense that they provide perspective if the situation applies. If you're going through a rut and have a good reading, they can be uplifting and maybe that day, you decide it's too early to give up.
@@IxAMxSMILEY yeah, they feel better, but only because both you and them are lying to them. lol
I want to see a psychic and bs everything.
I'm honestly surprised Trump and his supporters haven't been mentioned constantly in the comments.
Commercial psychic tricks