This information is part of the series of articles answering the feng shui IQ quiz.

Feng shui uses theories of modern psychology.

False.

If someone claims feng shui uses psychology it is an anachronism — or a marketing ploy. After all, nearly all of the people who claim feng shui uses theories of modern psychology cannot accurately identify which theories are at work! Here are the primary theories and theorists.

In China, psychology was still considered a pseudoscience as little as 25 years ago.

The first documented use of the word psychology is often attributed to Rudolf Goeckel (in 1590, nearly 6,000 years after the first archaeological evidence for feng shui). The "father of psychology," Wilhelm Wundt, lived in the 1800s.

It is possible to study feng shui using theories of modern psychology.