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Cold reading

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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Basic procedure

Specific techniques

Contrasting claims of performers

Sitter misremembering

Subconscious cold reading

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Cold reading

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Avg. degree1.98
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Cold reading

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related to In media · 65
Cold reading → Army MP, BBC TV, Comedian John Oliver, Crossing Over, Dalton Rand, Depicted, Dorothy, Early, Edward, Edward's TV, Episode, Eventually, Faith, February, Four Horsemen, Frank Morgan, Has, High Spirits, His, In
related to Bibliography · 50
Cold reading → Angelo, August, Austin, Barnum, Buffalo, Cline, Colin, Confessions, Convince Strangers That You, Cross Over One Last, Deconstructing The Dead, Denis The Cold Reading, Dutton, Flim-Flam, Guide, How, Hunter, Hyman, James, John Edward
related to External links · 20
Cold reading → Archived, Cold Reading Tricks, Daniel Loxton, Denis DuttonForer Effect, Guide, Junior Skeptic, Lynne KellyJunior Skeptic Magazine, Methods Exposed, Paranormal, Robert NovellaThe Cold Reading, Skeptic Friends NetworkCold Reading, Technique, The Psychic's True Power, The Skeptic's DictionaryCold Reading, The Skeptic's DictionaryHow, The Skeptic's DictionaryPsychic, The Skeptic's DictionaryThe Skeptic's, Tony YouensShotgunning, TV, Wayback Machine
related to Contrasting claims of performers · 7
Cold reading → Derren Brown, Ian Rowland, Kari Coleman, Lynne Kelly, Only, Some, The
related to Basic procedure · 6
Cold reading → After, Before, In, One, The, While
related to Shotgunning · 5
Cold reading → John, Mike, Shotgunning, The, This
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Cold reading → set of techniques used by mentalists, subject eager to make connections or reinterpret vague statements in any way that will help the reader appear to make specific predictions or intuitions

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Cold readingis aset of techniques used by mentalists0.90text
Cold readingis asubject eager to make connections or reinterpret vague statements in any way that will help the reader appear to make specific predictions or intuitions0.90text
changes in facial expression or body language can indicate whether a particular line of questioning is effective or notinstance ofwhich are then refined and restated by the reader so as to reinforce the idea that the reader got something correct.Subtle cues0.80text
moodinstance ofvaguely linked by factors0.80text
timeinstance ofvaguely linked by factors0.80text
or potentialinstance ofvaguely linked by factors0.80text
Cold readingrelated to Basic procedureBefore0.60section
Cold readingrelated to Basic procedureOne0.60section
Cold readingrelated to Basic procedureWhile0.60section
Cold readingrelated to Basic procedureAfter0.60section
Cold readingrelated to Basic procedureThe0.60section
Cold readingrelated to Basic procedureIn0.60section

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