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SUBMITTER: Lan Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6258475 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lan Yuxuan Y Mohr Christine C Hu Xiaomeng X Kuhn Gustav G
PloS one 20181127 11
Magicians use deception to create effects that allow us to experience the impossible. More recently, magicians have started to contextualize these tricks in psychological demonstrations. We investigated whether witnessing a magic demonstration alters people's beliefs in these pseudo-psychological principles. In the classroom, a magician claimed to use psychological skills to read a volunteer's thoughts. After this demonstration, participants reported higher beliefs that an individual can 1) read ...[more]