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Cold reading is a set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, and mediums. Without prior knowledge, a practiced cold-reader can quickly obtain a great deal of information by analyzing the person's body language, age, clothing or fashion, hairstyle, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, level of education, manner of speech…
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| Cold reading | is a | set of techniques used by mentalists | 0.90 | text |
| Cold reading | is a | subject eager to make connections or reinterpret vague statements in any way that will help the reader appear to make specific predictions or intuitions | 0.90 | text |
| changes in facial expression or body language can indicate whether a particular line of questioning is effective or not | instance of | which are then refined and restated by the reader so as to reinforce the idea that the reader got something correct.Subtle cues | 0.80 | text |
| mood | instance of | vaguely linked by factors | 0.80 | text |
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| or potential | instance of | vaguely linked by factors | 0.80 | text |
| Cold reading | related to Basic procedure | Before | 0.60 | section |
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