Hot reading
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In parapsychology, hot reading is the use of foreknowledge when giving a psychic reading. The reader can purportedly gain information about the sitter (person getting the reading) through a variety of means, such as research or overhearing a conversation. This is commonly used in conjunction with cold reading, and can sometimes be used to explain how a psychic reader can get a specific claimed hit.
Often this technique will be used by false television psychics. Sometimes the psychics force people to book ahead and then send people to their house to collect information posing as Mormons, magazine sales people, etc. They can often gain a wide understanding of a person just from their houses. Then the "psychic" is briefed on the information and where the person will sit.