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Knowledge › Eastern › Psychology A 2024 study of Vietnamese firms links lower fixed asset investment to directors aged 49 to 53, the tuoi han years. The effect is larger in small firms.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Folk belief, harmful superstition and pseudoscience differ in nature. Definitions and examples show how to tell cultural faith from fraud.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Psychology Contagious magic rests on two laws: contact transfers properties, and similarity means shared essence. Rozin's 1986 experiments show they still shape us.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Western › Psychology Friday the 13th stock studies give conflicting results, and any effect is tiny. Vietnamese lunar bad days have not been studied the same way.
Updated 28 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Western › Tarot Explore the symbolism and in-depth meaning of the Nine of Cups tarot card: joy, fulfillment, gratitude, and caveats for interpretation.
Updated 10 Sept 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Joss paper is a symbolic exchange between the living and ancestors or spirits, covering its origins, len dong rituals and Buddhist critiques.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Vietnam's 2016 Law on Belief and Religion separates protected belief from banned superstition, with fines and criminal penalties.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Astrology is not science in the modern empirical sense, yet calling it pure superstition ignores its roots in Yin-Yang, the Five Elements and the I Ching.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Psychology Superstition survives because our learning machinery produces it: chance coincidences become rituals, and false beliefs may cost less than missed causes.
Updated 28 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of science Lunar dates, leap months and solar terms are verifiable astronomy, while auspicious days and lucky stars are a later day-selection layer.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Psychology Economists use Dragon year birth timing to measure how a first child affects mothers' employment, and what that timing reveals about ethnic identity.
Updated 28 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Psychology Studies in Vancouver, Auckland, Singapore, Hồng Kông and Russia show buyers pay more or less for house and floor numbers.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Western › Psychology Many people know a taboo has no scientific basis yet still follow it. Psychology calls this acquiescence, a mechanism that reconciles intuition and reason.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Psychology Evidence from Taiwan's futures exchange and IPO data shows that choosing prices and tickers by lucky numbers comes with lower returns.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Date and hour selection Year-end dates for the gathering, altar cleaning, debt repayment and New Year opening: lunar calendar principles and flexible use without superstition.
Updated 16 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Psychology Hồng Kông license plate auction data shows number 8 sells higher and number 4 lower. That price gap measures belief and status signaling, not luck.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Folk traditional practices Palm reading is a folk divination practice that reads palm lines to infer personality and destiny, yet it has no scientific basis.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Psychology Prices ending in 8, 88 or 168 may attract buyers. Research on superstition and price clustering shows lucky numbers can work as a pricing tool.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Psychology Zodiac beliefs may shape birth numbers in Vietnam and East Asia, with larger cohorts in good years and Dragon and Tiger year shifts.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Western › Psychology Anxiety and ritual seeking track together in observational data, but experiments that induced lost control have not replicated.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Western › Psychology The illusion of control explains why choosing your own lottery numbers or casting your own hexagram makes a random result feel more trustworthy.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Folk traditional practices Young people turn to fortune telling, tarot or astrology amid study and work pressure and uncertainty about the future, not from full belief in the occult.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Folk traditional practices Online fortune telling can be harmless fun, but scams steal money and personal data. Warning signs include fear tactics and upfront transfer demands.
Updated 22 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Psychology A 2010 study reported that lucky charms improved performance, but larger replications found no such effect. What does this say about the evidence?
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Folk traditional practices Cold reading uses body language, double-edged statements and the Barnum effect to make vague claims feel like an accurate reading of your private life.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Fortune telling on social media often exploits existing anxieties rather than supernatural ability. Spot vague statements, cold reading and upselling.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Philip Taylor links the Sam Mountain pilgrimage boom to the Đổi Mới market economy, where traders borrow fortune from Bà Chúa Xứ as sacred capital.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Hanoi field research shows sao giai han attendees span many ages and jobs, drawn by belief in inauspicious stars and peace of mind.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Zi Wei Dou Shu Nhật Nguyệt pairs Thái Dương and Thái Âm in Tử Vi, two stars whose meaning shifts with palace position and birth hour. Position decides how they read.
Updated 16 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Psychology Studies in mainland China, Taiwan, Hồng Kông and Asian-American communities find Dragon-year children score slightly higher.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Glossary Nhật Nguyệt is the Sino-Vietnamese pair for sun and moon, symbolizing yin and yang, time, and the cosmos in East Asian culture.
Updated 16 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Vietnam's 'tam linh' shifted from 20th-century dictionary meanings, and researchers now define 'spiritual tourism' through the post-Doi Moi religious market.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Psychology Birth month can shape school and career outcomes through the relative age effect, the age gap within a class, not through astrology or star signs.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Anthropology finds modernisation does not erase spirit belief in Vietnam. Temples and festivals grew busier after Đổi Mới for several overlapping reasons.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi The heavenly stems in Bát Tự: the four clashing pairs, the pairs that only overcome one another, and how Trích Thiên Tủy speaks of stems at war.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Dictionary › Other Phù Ức is a balancing principle in BaZi that uses supportive deities when the Day Master is weak and restraining deities when it is strong to achieve harmony.
Updated 21 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Western › Psychology The Gauquelin Mars Effect was astrology's strongest apparent hit in statistical data, but later independent tests failed to replicate it.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Western › Tarot Explore the detailed symbolism and deep meaning of The Moon tarot card, from its imagery and symbols to its interpretation in readings.
Updated 10 Sept 2026 Modern system
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