Subjective validation

Subjective validation is a cognitive bias in which a person accepts a statement or other information to be correct if it has some personal meaning or significance for the person. In other words, a person whose opinion is affected by subjective validation, two events, for example, without reference, that is a coincidence regarded as dependent because their personal belief demands that they are dependent. Subjective validation has a direct relation to the Barnum effect and plays an important role in cold reading. It is considered the main reason for most messages of paranormal phenomena.