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PSYCHOLOGY ANDASTROLOGY
Because so much of astrology—at least as it is currently practiced—is psychological,
the relationship between psychology and astrology is complex. Examined here are
some of the issues that psychological researchers have addressed when questioning the
validity of astrology.
Femininity
In the September 1973 issue of the Journal of Psychology,Robert J. Pellegrini
noted significant correlations between people’s sun sign and their score on the Cali-
fornia Psychological Inventory’s femininity scale. In March 1975, the same journal
published another article by Pellegrini in which he noted that the highest femininity
scores in the 1973 study corresponded with the consecutive signs from Leo through
Capricorn, a correlation that does not correspond with the traditional astrological
characterization of every othersign as feminine. Later studies failed to confirm Pellegri-
ni’s original findings.
Introversion/Extroversion
In a 1978 Journal of Social Psychologyarticle, Jeff Mayo and others found correla-
tions between people’s sun sign and their score on a measure of introversion and extro-
version. This study found that, congruent with what one might anticipate from astro-
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