Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, South Holland, The Netherlands.
Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands.
PLoS One. 2022 Sep 7;17(9):e0273233. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0273233. eCollection 2022.
Fortune telling is a widespread phenomenon, yet little is known about the extent to which people are affected by it-including those who consider themselves non-believers. The present research has investigated the power of a positive fortune telling outcome (vs. neutral vs. negative) on people's financial risk taking. In two online experiments (n1 = 252; n2 = 441), we consistently found that positive fortune telling enhanced financial risk taking particularly among men. Additionally, we used a real online gambling game in a lab setting (n3 = 193) and found that positive fortune telling enhanced the likelihood that college students gambled for money. Furthermore, a meta-analysis of these three studies demonstrated that the effect of positive fortune telling versus neutral fortune telling was significant for men, but virtually absent for women. Thus, positive fortune telling can yield increased financial risk taking in men, but not (or less so) in women.
算命是一种普遍存在的现象，但人们对它的影响程度知之甚少，包括那些自认为不相信算命的人。本研究调查了积极的算命结果（与中性结果和消极结果相比）对人们财务风险承担的影响。在两项在线实验中（n1=252；n2=441），我们一致发现，积极的算命结果尤其会增加男性的财务风险承担。此外，我们在实验室环境中使用了一款真实的在线赌博游戏（n3=193），发现积极的算命结果会增加大学生为钱赌博的可能性。此外，对这三项研究的元分析表明，积极的算命结果与中性的算命结果对男性的影响显著，而对女性的影响几乎不存在。因此，积极的算命结果可以增加男性的财务风险承担，但对女性则不然（或影响较小）。
