A Content Analysis on Psychological Techniques used in different Fortune telling Systems
Journal Title: International Journal of Research in Social Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 2
Abstract
The art of reading people and their personality is always exciting for general public as well as Psychologists. This study is an attempt to find out the psychological techniques used for describing their client‟s personality by professional fortune tellers in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Investigator approached fortune tellers in their place, gave their professional fees for consultation. The sample consisted of 8 fortune tellers from different systems like palm reading, face reading, prayer reading, and Pakshisasthram. Sample selected based on convenient sampling method. Investigator recorded their responses (personality description of investigator) using mobile phone voice recorder system without fortune teller‟s awareness. That recorded data converted to text form and later printed on paper. These contents analyzed with standard content analysis method. The result of content analysis clearly showed different linguistic deception techniques used by fortune tellers.
Authors and Affiliations
Dr. Sherin V George and Dr. H. Sylaja
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