Cold Reading
"Cold reading is a series of techniques used by <a title="Mentalism" href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentalism">mentalists</a>, <a title="Magic (illusion)" href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_%28illusion%29">illusionists</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" title="Fortune telling" href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_telling">fortune tellers</a>, <a title="Psychic" href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic">psychics</a>, <a title="Mediumship" href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediumship">mediums</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" title="Con artist" href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_artist">con artists</a> to determine or express details about another person, often in order to convince them that the reader knows much more about a subject than they actually do.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Dutton1988_0-0"><a href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading#cite_note-Dutton1988-0">
[1
]</a></sup> Without prior knowledge of a person, a practiced cold reader can still quickly obtain a great deal of information about the subject by analyzing the person's <a title="Body language" href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_language">body language</a>, <a title="Ageing" href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageing">age</a>, <a title="Clothing" href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing">clothing</a> or <a title="Fashion" href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion">fashion</a>, <a title="Hairstyle" href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairstyle">hairstyle</a>, <a title="Gender" href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender">gender</a>, <a title="Sexual orientation" href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_orientation">sexual orientation</a>, <a title="Religion" href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion">religion</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" title="Race (classification of human beings)" href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_%28classification_of_human_beings%29">race</a> or <a class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnicity" href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnicity">ethnicity</a>, level of <a title="Education" href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education">education</a>, manner of <a class="mw-redirect" title="Speech communication" href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_communication">speech</a>, place of origin, etc. Cold readers commonly employ high probability guesses about the subject, quickly picking up on signals from their subjects as to whether their guesses are in the right direction or not, and then emphasizing and reinforcing any chance connections the subjects acknowledge while quickly moving on from missed guesses" Wikipedia.org
This is a very interesting video I found...it's shocking somehow and impressive. It tell us about how our mind work, and how similar we all are, and specially, how easy is to fool a person with the right elements, and the right abilites. I hope someone finds it useful. It's also useful for practicing english and it also has some spanish in it, both the accents are pretty clear in the video.
<a href="
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEFndH5KOD0&feature=player_embedded#!">www.youtube.com/watch</a>