Effects in which people accept vague or general statements as personally meaningful, such as the Barnum effect. A phenomenon belongs here when its cited article describes this acceptance of general statements as personal. Every member sits in the Psychology Atlas as its own page with a definition, cited sources and links to related effects, so the group works as a reading path through Subjective Validation Effects rather than as a claim that the members share one cause. Where scholars disagree about how an effect should be classified, the member page says so.
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Wikipedia: Barnum effect
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The Barnum effect, also called the Forer effect or, less commonly, the Barnum-Forer effect, is a common psychological phenomenon whereby individuals give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically to them, yet which are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a broad range of people.
Wikipedia: Subjective validation
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Subjective validation, sometimes called personal validation effect, is a cognitive bias by which people will consider a statement or another piece of information to be correct if it has any personal meaning or significance to them.
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