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The astrological doctrine of ‘aspects’: A failure to validate with personality measures
Author(s) -
Startup Michael
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
british journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.855
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 2044-8309
pISSN - 0144-6665
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8309.1985.tb00693.x
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , doctrine , social psychology , test (biology) , function (biology) , philosophy , paleontology , theology , evolutionary biology , biology
A series of three studies was designed to test the astrological doctrine of ‘aspects’. In the first, a group of astrologers was asked to specify how personality varies with specific aspects between 32 pairs of planets; these predictions were tested against scores on 10 personality dimensions. In the second, a comparison of ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ aspects was made using multivariate methods. The third study ignored the traditional aspects and simply investigated whether personality varies in any manner as a function of the angular separation between planets at birth. No evidence for the validity of astrological ideas was found in any of these studies.