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SUBMITTER: Wiseman R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7067183 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wiseman Richard R Watt Caroline C
PeerJ 20200309
For hundreds of years, magic tricks have been employed within a variety of pedagogic contexts, including promoting science and mathematics, delivering educational messaging, enhancing scepticism about the paranormal, and boosting creative thinking for product design. This review examines this diverse body of work, focusing on studies that have assessed the impact of such interventions. Although the studies tended to yield positive outcomes, much of the work suffered from methodological shortcomi ...[more]