A Christmas experiment

Every Saturday, I post an article about whatever pops up in my mind. Sometimes fun -always personal.

"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Everywhere you go."

A Christmas Experiment

In 1948, an American Psychologist performed an experiment on his students.

He placed them in a classroom and gave them paper. He carefully instructed them only to turn the paper when he said so.

He told them that he had made a personal analysis of each student and wanted to know how much they would agree with his observations.

When they students were told to turn the paper, they were shocked. The professor had described them all perfectly.

'It was accurate!'

The professor even mentioned their intimate and most personal feelings.

What they did not know... They all received the same paper. Today, this is now known as the Barnum Effect.

In the light of Christmas. This experiment still proves that we are all very much alike. We all feel and desire the same things. However, our programming has led us to believe that we are, in fact, different. Our sources of information taught us to love, distrust or even hate.

Asking for love and peace sounds ambitious, but if this post inspires you to focus on your love and happiness, it is worth it.

I wish you all the best -with the best.

PS: Want to know what was on that paper?

1. You have a great need for other people to like and admire you.

2. You tend to be critical of yourself.

3. You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have yet to turn to your advantage.

4. While you have personality weaknesses, you can generally compensate for them.

5. Your sexual adjustment has presented problems for you.

6. Disciplined and self-controlled outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure inside.

7. Sometimes, you have severe doubts about whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing.

8. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations.

9. You pride yourself as an independent thinker and do not accept others' statements without satisfactory proof.

10. You have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others.

11. At times, you are extroverted, affable, and sociable, while at other times, you are introverted, wary, and reserved.

12. Some of your aspirations tend to be pretty unrealistic.

13. Security is one of your primary goals in life.

From a score of 0/13, how much do you score?