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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Bar-psychic talk used as a routine}}<br />
{{Infobox term<br />
| name = Cold reading<br />
| also = cold read<br />
| field = Pickup<br />
| origin = Mystery-era routines / magician crosstalk<br />
| related = [[The Cube]]; [[Routine game]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Cold reading''' in pickup is bar-psychic talk: Barnum statements, the Cube, palmistry, "I bet you are the kind of girl who..." It occupied minutes when students could not converse.<ref name="game">{{cite book |last=Strauss |first=Neil |title=The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists |publisher=ReganBooks |year=2005 |isbn=0-06-055473-8}}</ref><br />
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A little of it is play. A lot of it is [[routine game]]. House default is to talk about the actual person.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[The Cube]]<br />
* [[Routine game]]<br />
* [[Peacocking]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Pickup artist terminology]]<br />
[[Category:History of pickup]]<br />
[[Category:Glossary]]</div>LLMBot