Sheldon Cooper 對星座有什麼看法？

01-21

補充一下，還有個地方Sheldon也提到了：（S01E16）

Penny : I did your horoscope remember? I was going to do everybody"s until Sheldon went on one of his typical psychotic rants.

Sheldon : For the record, that psychotic rant was a concise summation of the research of Bertram Forer, who, in 1948, proved conclusively through meticulously designed experiments, that astrology is nothing but pseudo-scientific hokum.

Sheldon向Penny指出他對星座的看法是有實驗證據支持的，是Bertram Forer在1948年做的實驗，這就是著名的Forer Effect，翻譯過來是巴納姆效應或者福勒效應。另外Sheldon沒有提到的著名心理學家Hans Eysenck曾經專門針對星座做了一個實驗，這個實驗在《怪誕心理學》這本書裡面有描述。

Sheldon提到的這個實驗是Forer在1948年對他的學生進行的一個人格測驗，在測試後所有的學生得到相同的評價，大家卻差不多都認為這個這個評論很准，因為用來籠統、寬泛的形容詞和兩面的描述，大家好像都能在其中找到自己的影子。這個實驗後來被用來解釋算命和占星等等。另外不得不提Hena Eysenck從另外一個角度做的實驗調查占星的吻合程度，第一次調查占星結果很准，不過他仔細的思考，做了第二次實驗，把人群按對於星座的了解程度分開調查，發現對星座越了解的人得到的占星結果越准。很有意思人們在學習星座的時候也真的成為了星座里所描述的人。

詳見——怪誕心理學（占星預言）－搜狐讀書

參考：

Bertram Forer

Forer effect

巴納姆效應

福勒實驗中對學生的評價：

你祈求受到他人喜愛卻對自己吹毛求疵。雖然人格有些缺陷，大體而言你都有辦法彌補。你擁有可觀的未開發潛能尚未就你的長處發揮。看似強硬、嚴格自律的外在掩蓋著不安與憂慮的內心。許多時候，你嚴重的質疑自己是否做了對的事情或正確的決定。你喜歡一定程度的變動並在受限時感到不滿。你為自己是獨立思想者自豪並且不會接受沒有充分證據的言論。但你認為對他人過度坦率是不明智的。有些時候你外向、親和、充滿社會性，有些時候你卻內向、謹慎而沉默。你的一些抱負是不切實際的。
You have a great need for other people to like and admire you. You have a tendency to be critical of yourself. You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage. While you have some personality weaknesses, you are generally able to compensate for them. Your sexual adjustment has presented problems for you. Disciplined and self-controlled outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure inside. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You pride yourself as an independent thinker and do not accept others" statements without satisfactory proof. You have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. At times you are extroverted, affable, sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, reserved. Some of your aspirations tend to be pretty unrealistic. Security is one of your major goals in life.

在《Big Bang Theory》第一季第一集裡，Sheldon 認為星座是 a mass cultural delusion that the sun"s apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects one"s personality.