A cognitive bias where one automatically attributes any perceived accuracy in personality descriptions, horoscopes, or generalized feedback to the Barnum-Forer effect, without considering other possibilities. Barnumist-Forerist Bias assumes that if a description could apply to many people, it cannot hold meaningful truth for any individual. The bias protects a materialist worldview by explaining away experiences of insight or resonance, regardless of their depth or context. It's the mirror image of credulity: instead of believing too easily, it disbelieves too readily.
"The personality profile described her so well she teared up. Barnumist-Forerist Bias: 'It's just vague statements that could apply to anyone.' But it didn't feel vague to her—it felt seen. The bias dismisses the experience without engaging it. Maybe it was Barnum; maybe it was insight. The bias assumes the former without investigation."
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Pronounced Klō-dee fō-der
Sounds like: clothing folder
Spoken with a “Canadian” (east coast; “Newfie”) accent
Said to someone endearingly, not with malice
NOT to be said during real altercations
Pronounced Klō-dee fō-der
Sounds like: clothing folder
Spoken with a “Canadian” (east coast; “Newfie”) accent
Said to someone endearingly, not with malice
NOT to be said during real altercations
Person A: *Does or says something kinda silly without malicious intent, accompanied by poor interoception, for example, slightly trips over the cord for a fan that is turned on and pulls the plug out from the socket, either despite of being warned of the cord’s presence on the floor, or not, and is NOT harmed or injured psychologically and/or physically*
Person B: are you okay? Yes? Awesome! Ha! *faces towards the invisible crowd, gestures with thumb to Person A, and makes the face that Christian Bale made in American Psycho (2000) when he is holding the axe somewhat upright with the axe blade is near his right shoulder, wearing a pale blue button-down shirt, with almost a smirk of desperation, idk I haven’t seen the movie*
“Get a load of this clodey foder!”
Person B: are you okay? Yes? Awesome! Ha! *faces towards the invisible crowd, gestures with thumb to Person A, and makes the face that Christian Bale made in American Psycho (2000) when he is holding the axe somewhat upright with the axe blade is near his right shoulder, wearing a pale blue button-down shirt, with almost a smirk of desperation, idk I haven’t seen the movie*
“Get a load of this clodey foder!”
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