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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2021-07-01
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Series: | Acta Psychologica |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691821000974 |