What is "cold reading"?
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When actors go over a script for the first time. They are just reading the material- their parts- with each other, not acting. {I suppose it could be a zero on the thermometer, too}
Reading a novel in a snowbank and I could do that here lately!
What you read when you have pulled a sickie from work with a snotty nose
It is a scam, a predatory( 'psychic' )charlatan's firing of questions to a 'client victim', fishing for a line of inquiry to pursue.
A true psychic, in contrast, presents clear cut, irrefutable messages from the dead, with little or no such 'prompting'.
The technique used by "psychics" to trick their victim, is also used by magicians as part of some routines.
It works by asking general questions, then homing in on specifics. The end result appears like the target is being given information no one else could know.
South Park did an episode based on this and fake psychics.
Another good example is when James Bond first meets Vesper in Casino Royale.
Is a series of techniques used by mentalists, illusionists, fortune tellers, psychics, and mediums 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.
Cold reading is a used by actors and other performers like theater, television and films.
basically it is improv
Cold reading refers to a set of techniques used by professional manipulators to get a subject to behave in a certain way or to think that the cold reader has some sort of special ability that allows him to "mysteriously" know things about the subject.
Total Answers: 10, Total Page Views: 461.It's when you're stuck in a blizzard and your reading a book while waiting and praying that someone will come and rescue you.
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