How The Power Of Expectations Can Allow You And Bend Reality By Gareth Cook

This, compared to the belief about the zodiac signs, is a significant change during the

Funder (2006) defines personality as a person’s pattern of thought, emotion, and behavior, with psychological mechanisms and underpinnings. Studying personality within the field of social psychology makes logical senses. While the study of personality psychology seeks to determine the various ways that people differ from one another, and figure out individuals from the inside out, personality within social psychology seeks to figure out individuals from the inside out in varying contexts. Personality psychologists deal with one main challenge – there are so many facets to one’s personality that it is hard to view one’s personality within one single lens. Therefore, before exploring personality within the context of social realms, it is important to view the many facets and approaches to examining personality and its variations.

De La Fontaine, Jean. "The Horoscope." Book VIII. Ed. Jean De La Fontaine. 1678-679. Print.

According to the article “The Power of Personality” it is abundantly clear that specific personality traits predict important life outcomes, such as mortality,

Expectancy refers to what an individual expects or predicts what may happen in an interaction (Dickter & Gyurovski, 2012; Miller-Ott & Kelly, 2015; Sidelinger & Bolen, 2015). Researchers note that predictive expectancies are what individuals expect in a certain situation based on what generally happens in a specific context, while prescriptive expectancies are what individuals expect based on the social norms of what is appropriate (Sidelinger & Bolen, 2015; Walther-Martin, 2015). Furthermore, arousal may take place when a person’s expectations are violated (Dickter & Gyurovski, 2012; Johnson, 2012; West & Turner, 2014). Arousal is shown through an increase in interest or attention when deviations from expectations occur (West & Turner, 2014). Threat threshold is the ‘distance at which an interactant experiences physical and psychological discomfort by the presence of another’ (West & Turner, 2014, p.

28.|In convincing people that they can accurately assess their personalities, astrologers, palm readers, and graphologists take advantage of:|

As someone once said…. “Sometimes people come into your life for a moment, a day, or a lifetime. It matters not the time they spent with you but, how they impacted your life at that time.” – Unknown. If it wasn’t for three remarkably wise people Ian, character of the novel, Shattered by Eric Walters, wouldn’t have changed into a better person. In order to pass Social Studies, fifteen- year- old, spoiled, self-centered Ian Blackburn must complete community volunteer hours. Encouraged by getting a BMW car from his father for his upcoming birthday, Ian decides to work at “The Club”, which sounds good at first until he stepped into what was a soup kitchen for the homeless. While slowly completing his hours, Ian

When I was little, I really didn’t know what astrology was or what your zodiac sign was. When I was growing up, I finally figured out what it all meant and how it worked. From that point on I was instantly clicked. I loved reading my horoscope and when ever I did read it, nine out of ten times it would be right, and that’s why I loved reading my horoscope. It was just something I did every morning, and then I would go throughout my day. Then at night when I would be back on the computer, i would reread them, and realize that most of the time those things did happen, or I did feel that type of emotion.

Rationale for Birth Chart I chose to do a birth chart so I would have a solid foundation for my character profiles on these original characters. As explained in my essay, a birth chart is a map of the heavens during the specific moment a person is born, showing the positions of the planets and other celestial objects with the individual at the center. The calculations of where these planets are located in accordance with the person’s birth place and time indicate their potential personality traits. I realize for my audience, this chart without explanation wouldn't be useful to anyone, as they are not astrologers; however, I felt it was necessary to include it to maintain consistency and accuracy throughout the presentation. I had to research what each planet meant according to which zodiac house they were in so I could accurately interpret the chart and the potential personality traits to

(I can’t remember the website now but) A website said that if you believe in astrology wholeheartedly that is 90%-100% true for you. If you believe on the down low, just dabble here and there, it is most likely 40%-60% true for you. Finally, if you don’t believe at all it would only be 0%-20% true for you. In some aspects it seems totally fake. The chance of everyone born in the same month as you having similar traits to you is about as likely as evolution, it can’t happen. But if you think about it, I would say at least half of those people wouldn’t believe in astrology at all and maybe 20-ish% would just believe a little. Though that may be the case, I would still say it is highly unlikely. Most of the tools used in “reading your horoscope” I believe are “hocus pocus” (no pun intended… well maybe a little…). Things like Tarot Cards, dowsing rods and runes may help you to “feel the energy” but really all they’re doing is putting on a show. Astrology is definitely not irreducibly complex, and I could probably rip this apart piece by piece and dive head first into the root of all the stars. [For the sake of my sleep schedule I will save that for my final copy xD] I will add something though, the horoscopes you see in the paper are definitely not something you should believe, and they are most likely not done by someone who knows what they’re doing.

The idea of expectations is a strange concept. Expectations, from what I have gathered, are what we are supposed to do – or at least what we think we are supposed to do. The idea is that an action or actions are required of a person. Yet, expectations placed on us can cause duress as well as anguish if it seems beyond our skill. In “Shooting an Elephant”, George Orwell tells of a time in which he is placed under scrutiny of the public eye. When confronted with a serious problem, he feels the pressure of the crowd who were watching him. Orwell assumes that the crowd wants him to kill an escaped elephant due to their anticipation and excitement. To know with certainty what his audience is thinking at the time is impossible. All we can gather with certainty from

So the numbers we got was not different from what we expected. Since we accepted hypothesis there were no errors in the lab that affected results. Which proves our point that horoscopes cannot predict anyone’s life. Also it was noticed that some people got higher correct answers but that does not say that they are psychic. Nick Allum tested an experiment which was to study Europeans believing in Astrology. He had three basic hypothesis which were they don’t have enough education in science to differentiate pseudoscience to science, confused about astrology, and people with authoritarian values believe in astrology. He tested it and it came out that “all three of his hypotheses are most likely true” (Allum, 2011, p. 361-363). This experiment tells us that horoscopes aren’t really believable. There weren’t errors with our data but one little error would be if a group didn’t get what the journal entry was saying they would have just guessed a later cause they were really annoyed by it. This error wouldn’t do major damage to our data but it might have done

Analyses shows that personality changes throughout life as different personality traits are used and forgotten. The results are generalized and don’t always apply to people but typically the results are correct.

Astrology should be taken more seriously. There are five key reasons that outline the truth of astrology. First, astrology has been used for over six thousand years and was historically considered to be more accurate than medical professionals. Several scientific studies have been conducted to support astrological findings. Several yearly predictions that were made astrologically have been known to come true with a high success rate. Additionally, astrologers use a twelve-sign system to analyze individual personality traits, one study on these predictions held a 96% accuracy rate. Lastly, some psychologists today have taken to using astrology as a diagnosis tool and to treat their clients. These clients responded positively to their treatment.

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