A new research program has recently emerged that investigates magicians' mind control
tricks, also called forces. This research highlights the psychological processes that underpin …

Past research demonstrates that unconscious primes can affect people's decisions.
However, these free choice priming paradigms present participants with very few …

There has been considerable interest in empirical research on epistemic emotions, ie,
emotions related to knowledge-generating qualities of cognitive tasks and activities such as …

Magicians have developed a wide range of techniques to influence and control spectators'
choices of such things as card, word, or number. These techniques are what is called …

We often fall victim of an illusory sense of control and agency over our thoughts and actions.
Magicians are masters at exploiting these illusions, and forcing techniques provide a …

Forcing techniques allow magicians to subtly influence spectators' choices and the outcome
of their actions, and they provide powerful tools to study decision-making and the illusory …

Magicians' forcing techniques allow them to covertly influence spectators' choices. We used
a type of force (Position Force) to investigate whether explicitly informing people that they …

Magic tricks are deceiving, yet we can readily generate an explanation for a trick that we do
not fully understand. In three experiments, we show that the way people explain a mental …

Magic is an art form that allows us to experience the impossible, but some magic tricks are
more implausible than others. We present two experiments that examined whether the …

Forcing is usually described as the effect in which stage magicians covertly influence
decisions made by spectators. The phenomenon has been subject to a number of recent …