Cognitive style predicts how people explain mental magic tricks

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 trick depends on their individual cognitive style. Analytical thinkers tend to generate explanations that appea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Giorgio Gronchi, Jeffrey C. Zemla
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-07-01
Series:Acta Psychologica
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691821000974