A Science of Magic Bibliography: 2021 Update

Science of Magic Bibliography (1887 – Present)

Inclusion Criteria: All publications listed describe experimental research related to performance magic or magicians. This list is limited to studies involving adult participants. This list does not include reviews, commentaries, theoretical papers, or surveys. 

Numbering: Studies are listed by year of publication, and studies are ordered alphabetically by author within each year

Please Cite as: Tompkins, M. L. (2021). A Science of Magic Bibliography. https://www.matt-tompkins.com/blog/2021/3/29/a-science-of-magic-bibliography-2021-update

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Science of Magic Bibliography (1887 – Present)

 

Inclusion Criteria: All publications listed describe experimental research related to adults experiencing or performing magic. This list does not include reviews, commentaries, theoretical papers, or surveys. 

Numbering: The list is ordered by year of publication, and studies are ordered alphabetically by author within each year

 

 

1.       Hodgson, R., and S. J. Davy. (1887). The possibilities of mal-observation and lapse of memory from a practical point of view. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 4, 381-495.


2.      Jastrow, J. (1896). Psychological notes upon sleight-of-hand experts. Science, 3, 685-689.


3.      Triplett, N. (1900). The psychology of conjuring deceptions. The American Journal of Psychology, 11, 439-510.


4.     Besterman, T. (1932). The psychology of testimony in relation to paraphysical phenomena: Report of an experiment. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 40, 363-387.


5.      Marcuse, F. L., & Bitterman, M. E. (1944). A classroom demonstration of "psychical phenomena." The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 39, 238-243.


6.     Benassi, V. A Singer, B., & Reynolds, C.B. (1980). Occult Belief: Seeing is believing, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 19, 337.


7.      Jones, W. H. and D. Russell. (1980). The selective processing of belief disconfirming information. European Journal of Social Psychology, 10, 309-312.


8.     Trinkaus, J. (1980). Preconditioning an audience for mental magic: An informal look. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 51, 262.


9.     Smith, M. D. (1993). The effect of belief in the paranormal and prior set upon the observation of a ‘psychic’ demonstration. European Journal of Parapsychology, 9, 24-34.


10. Wiseman, R., & Morris, R. L. (1995). Recalling pseudo‐psychic demonstrations. British Journal of Psychology, 86, 113-125.


11.   Subbotsky, E. (1996). Explaining impossible phenomena: object permanence beliefs and memory failures in adults. Memory, 4, 199-233.


12.  Subbotsky, E. (1997). Explanations of unusual events: phenomenalistic causal judgements in children and adults. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 15, 13-36.


13.  Subbotsky, E. (2001). Causal explanations of events by children and adults: Can alternative causal modes coexist in one mind? British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 19, 23-46.


14.  Subbotsky, E. & Quinteros, G. (2002). Do cultural factors affect causal beliefs? Rational and magical thinking in Britain and Mexico. British Journal of Psychology, 93, 519-543.


15.  Wiseman, R., Greening, E., & Smith, M. (2003). Belief in the paranormal and suggestion in the séance room. British Journal of Psychology, 94, 285-297.


16.  Hergovich, A. (2004). The effect of pseudo-psychic demonstrations as dependent on belief in paranormal phenomena and suggestibility. Personality and Individual Differences, 36, 365-380.


17.  Johansson, P., Hall, L., Sikstrom, S., & Olsson, A. (2005). Failure to detect mismatches between intention and outcome in a simple decision task. Science, 310, 116-119.


18.  Kuhn, G. & Tatler, B. W. (2005). Magic and fixation: Now you don't see it, now you do. Perception, 34, 1153-1161.


19.  Wiseman, R., & Greening, E. (2005). It's still bending: Verbal suggestion and alleged psychokinetic ability. British Journal of Psychology, 96, 115-127.


20.Kuhn, G. & Land, M. F. (2006). There's more to magic than meets the eye! Current Biology. 16, R950.


21.  Linney, Y. M., & Peters, E. R. (2007). The psychological processes underlying symptoms of thought interference in psychosis. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 2726-2741.


22. Kuhn, G. & Tatler, B. W. Findlay J.M. Cole G. G. (2008). Misdirection in magic: Implications for the relationship between eye gaze and attention. Visual Cognition, 16, 391-405.

23. Kuhn, G., Tatler, B. W., & Cole, G. G. (2009). You look where I look! Effect of gaze cues on overt and covert attention in misdirection. Visual cognition, 17(6-7), 925-944.

24. Parris, B. A., Kuhn, G., Mizon, G. A., Benattayallah, A., & Hodgson, T. L. (2009). Imaging the impossible: An fMRI study of impossible causal relationships in magic tricks. Neuroimage, 45, 1033-1039.


25. Hall, L., Johansson, P., Tärning, B., Sikström, S., & Deutgen, T. (2010). Magic at the marketplace: Choice blindness for the taste of jam and the smell of tea. Cognition, 117, 54–61. 


26. Kuhn, G. Kourkoulou, A. Leekam, S.R. (2010). How magic changes our expectations about autism. Psychological Science, 21, 1487-93.


27. Kuhn, G., & Findlay, J. M. (2010). Misdirection, attention and awareness: Inattentional blindness reveals temporal relationship between eye movements and visual awareness. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology,63, 136-146.


28. Subbotsky, E. (2010). Curiosity and exploratory behavior toward possible and impossible events in children and adults. British Journal of Psychology, 101, 481-501.


29. Cavina-Pratesi, C., Kuhn, G., Ietswaart, M., Milner, A. D. (2011). The Magic Grasp: Motor Expertise in Deception. PLoS ONE, 6, e16568. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0016568


30.Cui, J., Otero-Millan, J., Macknik, S. L., King, M., & Martinez-Conde, S. (2011). Social misdirection fails to enhance a magic illusion. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5, 103. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00103


31.  Hergovich, A., Gröbl, K., & Carbon, C. C. (2011). The paddle move commonly used in magic tricks as a means for analysing the perceptual limits of combined motion trajectories. Perception 40, 358.


32. Otero-Millan, J., Macknik, S. L., Robbins, A., & Martinez-Conde, S. (2011). Stronger misdirection in curved than in straight motion. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00133


33. Demacheva, I., Ladouceur, M., Steinberg, E., Pogossova, G., & Raz, A. (2012). The Applied Cognitive Psychology of Attention: A Step Closer to Understanding Magic Tricks. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 26, 541-549.


34. Hall, L., Johansson, P., & Strandberg, T. (2012). Lifting the veil of morality: Choice blindness and attitude reversals on a self-transforming survey. PloS one, 7, e45457. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0045457


35. Smith, T. J., Lamont, P., & Henderson, J. M. (2012). The penny drops: Change blindness at fixation. Perception, 41, 489-492.


36. Danek, A. H., Fraps, T., von Müller, A., Grothe, B., & Öllinger, M. (2013). Aha! experiences leave a mark: facilitated recall of insight solutions. Psychological Research, 77, 659-669.


37. Hall, L., Strandberg, T., Pärnamets, P., Lind, A., Tärning, B., & Johansson, P. (2013). How the polls can be both spot on and dead wrong: Using choice blindness to shift political attitudes and voter intentions. PloS one, 8, e60554. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060554


38. Johansson, P., Hall, L., Tärning, B., Sikström, S., & Chater, N. (2013). Choice Blindness and Preference Change: You Will Like This Paper Better If You (Believe You) Chose to Read It! Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. doi: 10.1002/bdm.1807


39. Rieiro, H., Martinez-Conde, S., & Macknik, S. L. (2013). Perceptual elements in Penn & Teller’s “Cups and Balls” magic trick. PeerJ, 1, e19. doi: 10.7717/peerj.19


40.      Shalom, D. E., de Sousa Serro, M. G., Giaconia, M., Martinez, L. M., Rieznik, A., & Sigman, M. (2013). Choosing in Freedom or Forced to Choose? Introspective Blindness to Psychological Forcing in Stage-Magic. PloS one,8, e58254. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058254


41.  Smith, T. J., Lamont, P., & Henderson, J. M. (2013). Change blindness in a dynamic scene due to endogenous override of exogenous attentional cues. Perception, 42, 884-886.

42.  Taylor, H. E., Parker, S., Mansell, W., & Morrison, A. P. (2013). Effects of appraisals of anomalous experience on distress in people at risk of psychosis. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 41(1), 24–33.


43. Ward, T. A., Gaynor, K. J., Hunter, M. D., Woodruff, P. W., Garety, P. A., & Peters, E. R. (2013). Appraisals and responses to experimental symptom analogues in clinical and nonclinical individuals with psychotic experiences. Schizophrenia Bulletin, sbt094.


44. Aardema, F., & Johansson, P. (2014). Choice Blindness, Confabulatory Introspection, and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms: A New Area of Investigation. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 7, 83–102.

45. Ali, S. S., Lifshitz, M., & Raz, A. (2014). Empirical neuroenchantment: from reading minds to thinking critically. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 8, 357.

46. Barnhart, A. S., & Goldinger, S. D. (2014). Blinded by magic: Eye-movements reveal the misdirection of attention. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01461.


47. Danek, A. H., Fraps, T., von Müller, A., Grothe, B., & Öllinger, M. (2014a). It’s a kind of magic—what self-reports can reveal about the phenomenology of insight problem solving. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1408. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01408

48.Danek, A. H., Fraps, T., Von Mueller, A., Grothe, B., & Öllinger, M. (2014b). Working Wonders? Investigating insight with magic tricks. Cognition, 130, 174-185.


49. Williams, H., & McOwan, P. W. (2014). Magic in the machine: a computational magician's assistant. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01283


50. Wilson, K. & French C. C. (2014) Magic and memory: Using conjuring to explore the effects of suggestion, social influence and paranormal belief on eyewitness testimony for an ostensibly paranormal event. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01289


51.  Beth, T., & Ekroll, V. (2015). The curious influence of timing on the magical experience evoked by conjuring tricks involving false transfer: decay of amodal object permanence? Psychological Research, 79, 513-522


52. Bouvet, R., & Bonnefon, J. F. (2015). Non-reflective thinkers are predisposed to attribute supernatural causation to uncanny experiences. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 955-961.


53. Danek, A.H., Öllinger, M., Fraps, T., Grothe, B., & Flanagin, V.L. (2015). An fMRI investigation of expectation violation in magic tricks. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 84.


54. Mohr, C., Koutrakis, N., & Kuhn, G. (2015). Priming psychic and conjuring abilities of a magic demonstration influences event interpretation and random number generation biases. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01542


55. Olson, J., Amlani, A., & Rensink, R. (2015). Using magic to influence choice in the absence of visual awareness. Consciousness and Cognition, 37, 225- 236.


56. Olson, J. A., Demacheva, I., & Raz, A. (2015). Explanations of a magic trick across the life span. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00219


57.  Phillips, F., Natter, M. B., & Egan, E. J. (2015). Magically deceptive biological motion—the French Drop sleight. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 371. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00371

58. Smith, T. J. (2015). The role of audience participation and task relevance on change detection during a card trick. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00013


59. Tachibana, R., & Gyoba, J. (2015). Effects of different types of misdirection on attention and detection performance. Took Psychologic Folia, 74, 42-56.


60.      Tachibana, R., & Kawabata, H. (2015). The effects of social misdirection on magic tricks: How deceived and undeceived groups differ. i-Perception, 5, 143-146. doi: 10.1068/i0640sas 


61.  Thomas, C., & Didierjean, A. (2015). No need for a social cue! A masked magician can also trick the audience in the vanishing ball illusion. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 78(1), 21–29. doi:10.3758/s13414-015-1036-9 


62. Caffaratti, H., Navajas, J., Rey, H. G., & Quian Quiroga, R. (2016). Where is the ball? behavioral and neural responses elicited by a magic trick. Psychophysiology. 53, 1441-1448. 


63. Hedne, M. R., Norman, E., & Metcalfe, J. (2016). Intuitive Feelings of Warmth and Confidence in Insight and Noninsight Problem Solving of Magic Tricks. Frontiers in Psychology, 7.

64. Hergovich, A., & Oberfichtner, B. (2016). Magic and Misdirection: The Influence of Social Cues on the Allocation of Visual Attention While Watching a Cups-and-Balls Routine. Frontiers in Psychology, 761.


65. Kuhn, G., & Rensink, R. A. (2016). The vanishing ball illusion: A new perspective on the perception of dynamic events. Cognition, 148, 64-70.


66. Kuhn, G., Teszka, R., Tenaw, N., & Kingstone, A. (2016). Don’t be fooled! Attentional responses to social cues in a face-to-face and video magic trick reveals greater top-down control for overt than covert attention. Cognition, 146, 136-142.


67. Olson, J. A., Landry, M., Appourchaux, K., & Raz, A. (2016). Simulated thought insertion: Influencing the sense of agency using deception and magic. Consciousness and Cognition, 43, 11-26.


68.Thomas, C., & Didierjean, A. (2016a). The ball vanishes in the air: can we blame representational momentum? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23(6), 1810–1817. 

69. Thomas, C., & Didierjean, A. (2016b). Magicians fix your mind: How unlikely solutions block obvious ones. Cognition, 154, 169-173.


70. Tompkins, M. L., Woods, A. T., & Aimola Davies, A. M. (2016). Phantom Vanish magic trick: Investigating the disappearance of a non-existent object in a dynamic scene. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 950.

71.  Underwood, R., Kumari, V., & Peters, E. (2016). Appraisals of psychotic experiences: An experimental investigation of symptomatic, remitted and non-need-for-care individuals. Psychological Medicine, 46(6), 1249–1263


72. Williams, H., & McOwan, P. W. (2016). Magic in Pieces: An Analysis of Magic Trick Construction Using Artificial Intelligence as a Design Aid. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 30, 16-28.


73. Wiseman, R. J., & Nakano, T. (2016). Blink and you’ll miss it: the role of blinking in the perception of magic tricks. PeerJ, 4, e1873.

74. Danek, A. H., & Wiley, J. (2017). What about false insights? Deconstructing the Aha! experience along its multiple dimensions for correct and incorrect solutions separately. Frontiers in Psychology7, 2077.



75.  Kawakami, N., & Miura, E. (2017). Can Magic Deception Be Detected at an Unconscious Level? Perception46(6), 698-708.

76. Lin, J. L., Cheng, M. F., Lin, S. Y., Chang, J. Y., Chang, Y. C., Li, H. W., & Lin, D. M. (2017). The effects of combining inquiry-based teaching with science magic on the learning outcomes of a friction unit. Journal of Baltic Science Education16, 218-227. 



77.  Moss, S. A., Irons, M., & Boland, M. (2017). The magic of magic: The effect of magic tricks on subsequent engagement with lecture material. British Journal of Educational Psychology87(1), 32-42.



78. Rieznik, A., Moscovich, L., Frieiro, A., Figini, J., Catalano, R., Garrido, J. M., Heduan, F. A., Sigman, M., & Gonzalez, P. A. (2017). A massive experiment on choice blindness in political decisions: Confidence, confabulation, and unconscious detection of self-deception. PloS one, 12(2), e0171108.

79. Rinsma, T., van der Kamp, J., Dicks, M., & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2017). Nothing magical: pantomimed grasping is controlled by the ventral system. Experimental brain research, 235(6), 1823-1833

80.     Bagnoli, F., Guarino, A., & Pacini, G. (2018). Teaching physics by magic. Physics Education, 54(1), 015025.


81.  Barnhart, A. S., Ehlert, M. J., Goldinger, S. D., & Mackey, A. D. (2018). Cross-modal attentional entertainment: Insights from magicians. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-10.

82. Cocchini, G., Galligan, T., Mora, L., & Kuhn, G. (2018). The magic hand: Plasticity of mental hand representation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(11), 2314–2324.



83. Ekroll, V., De Bruyckere, E., Vanwezemael, L., & Wagemans, J. (2018). Never Repeat the Same Trick Twice—Unless it is Cognitively Impenetrable. i-Perception9, 2041669518816711.


84.Kuhn, G., & Teszka, R. (2018). Don’t get misdirected! Differences in overt and covert attentional inhibition between children and adults. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology71(3), 688-694.



85. Lan, Y., Mohr, C., Hu, X., & Kuhn, G. (2018). Fake science: The impact of pseudo-psychological demonstrations on people’s beliefs in psychological principles. PLOS ONE, 13(11), e0207629. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0207629 


86.Lesaffre, L., Kuhn, G., Abu-Akel, A., Rochat, D., & Mohr, C. (2018). Magic performances-When explained in psychic terms by university students. Frontiers in Psychology9, 2129.



87. Ortega, J., Montañes, P., Barnhart, A., & Kuhn, G. (2018). Exploiting failures in metacognition through magic: Visual awareness as a source of visual metacognition bias. Consciousness and cognition65, 152-168.



88.      Schönauer, M., Brodt, S., Pöhlchen, D., Breßmer, A., Danek, A. H., & Gais, S. (2018). Sleep Does Not Promote Solving Classical Insight Problems and Magic Tricks. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2018.00072 



89.Strandberg, T., Sivén, D., Hall, L., Johansson, P., & Pärnamets, P. (2018). False beliefs and confabulation can lead to lasting changes in political attitudes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(9), 1382-1399. 



90.      Thomas, C., Didierjean, A., & Kuhn, G. (2018). The Flushtration Count Illusion: Attribute substitution tricks our interpretation of a simple visual event sequence. British Journal of Psychology, 109, 850-861. 

91.  Thomas, C., Didierjean, A., & Kuhn, G. (2018). It is magic! How impossible solutions prevent the discovery of obvious ones? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 2481-2487.



92.     Barnhart, A. S., Costela, F. M., Martinez-Conde, S., Macknik, S. L., & Goldinger, S. D. (2019). Microsaccades reflect the dynamics of misdirected attention in magic. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 12 (6), doi.org/10.16910/jemr.12.6.7


93.     Danek, A. H., & Flanagin, V. L. (2019). Cognitive conflict and restructuring: The neural basis of two core components of insight. AIMS Neuroscience, 6(2), 60. 


94.     Gygax, P., Thomas, C., Didierjean, A., & Kuhn, G. (2019). Are women perceived as worse magicians than men? Social Psychological Bulletin, 14(3), 1-19.


95.      Ikhsanudin, I., Sudarsono, S., & Salam, U. Using Magic Trick Problem-Based Activities to Improve Students' Engagement in a Listening Class. JELTIM (Journal of English Language Teaching Innovation and Materials), 1(1), 7-15.


96.     Mansour, H., & Kuhn, G. (2019). Studying “natural” eye movements in an “unnatural” social environment: The influence of social activity, framing, and sub-clinical traits on gaze aversion. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(8), 1913-1925. 


97. Øhrn, H., Svalebjørg, M., Andersen, S., Ring, A. E., & Ekroll, V. (2019). A perceptual illusion of empty space can create a perceptual illusion of levitation. i-Perception, 10(6), 2041669519897681. 


98.     Pétervári, J., & Danek, A. H. (2019). Problem solving of magic tricks: guiding to and through an impasse with solution cues, Thinking & Reasoning, DOI: 10.1080/13546783.2019.1668479


99.     Scott, H., Batten, J. P., & Kuhn, G. (2019). Why are you looking at me? It’s because I’m talking, but mostly because I’m staring or not doing much. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81(1), 109-118. doi:10.3758/s13414-018-1588-6

100.Wong, S. F., Aardema, F., Giraldo-O’Meara, M., Hall, L., & Johansson, P. (2019). Choice Blindness, Confabulatory Introspection, and Obsessive–Compulsive Symptoms: Investigation in a Clinical Sample. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 1-10. 


101.  Yao, R., Wood, K., & Simons, D. J. (2019). As if by magic: An abrupt change in motion direction induces change blindness. Psychological science, 30(3), 436-443.

102. Bestue, D., Martínez, L. M., Gomez-Marin, A., Gea, M. A., & Camí, J. (2020). Long-term memory of real-world episodes is independent of recency effects: magic tricks as ecological tasks. Heliyon, 6(10), e05260.

103. Danek, A. H., & Wiley, J. (2020). What causes the insight memory advantage? Cognition, 205, 104411.

104. Danek, A.H., Williams, J. & Wiley, J. Closing the gap: connecting sudden representational change to the subjective Aha! experience in insightful problem solving. Psychological Research, 84, 111–119 (2020). doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-0977-8

105. Dergisi, T. E. (2020). Opinions on the use of magic card tricks in teaching English to young learners. Trakya Journal of Education, 10, 263-275.

106. Kuhn, G., Pailhès, A., & Lan, Y. (2020). Forcing you to experience wonder: Unconsciously biasing people’s choice through strategic physical positioning. Consciousness and Cognition80, 102902.

107.  Kumar, M., & John, S. (2020). Attitude of Higher Secondary School Teachers towards the Use of Magic Tricks in the Classroom. Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 9(2), 47-47.

108. Lau, J. K. L., Ozono, H., Kuratomi, K., Komiya, A., & Murayama, K. (2020). Shared striatal activity in decisions to satisfy curiosity and hunger at the risk of electric shocks. Nature human behaviour4(5), 531-543.

109. Lesaffre, L., Kuhn, G., Jopp, D. S., Mantzouranis, G., Diouf, C. N., Rochat, D., & Mohr, C. (2020). Talking to the Dead in the Classroom: How a Supposedly Psychic Event Impacts Beliefs and Feelings. Psychological Reports, 0033294120961068.

110.  Li, T. (2020). Use of magic performance as a schema disruption method to facilitate flexible thinking. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 38, 100735.

111.    Pailhès, A., & Kuhn, G. (2020). Subtly encouraging more deliberate decisions: using a forcing technique and population stereotype to investigate free will. Psychological research, 1-11.

112.   Pailhès, A., & Kuhn, G. (2020). Influencing choices with conversational primes: How a magic trick unconsciously influences card choices. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(30), 17675-17679.

113.   Pailhès, A., & Kuhn, G. (2020). The apparent action causation: Using a magician forcing technique to investigate our illusory sense of agency over the outcome of our choices. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(11), 1784-1795.

114.   Pailhès, A., Kumari, S., & Kuhn, G. (2020). The Magician’s Choice: Providing illusory choice and sense of agency with the Equivoque forcing technique. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

115.   Pétervári, J., & Danek, A. H. (2020). Problem solving of magic tricks: guiding to and through an impasse with solution cues. Thinking & Reasoning, 26(4), 502-533.

116.   Quarona, D., Koul, A., Ansuini, C., Pascolini, L., Cavallo, A., & Becchio, C. (2020). A kind of magic: Enhanced detection of pantomimed grasps in professional magicians. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(7), 1092-1100.

117.   Rummel, J., Iwan, F., Steindorf, L., & Danek, A. H. (2020). The role of attention for insight problem solving: Effects of mindless and mindful incubation periods. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 1-13.

118.  Strandberg, T., Olson, J. A., Hall, L., Woods, A., & Johansson, P. (2020). Depolarizing American voters: Democrats and Republicans are equally susceptible to false attitude feedback. PloS one, 15(2), e0226799.

119.   Svalebjørg, M., Øhrn, H., & Ekroll, V. (2020). The illusion of absence in magic tricks. i-Perception, 11(3), 2041669520928383.

120. Ward, T., Garety, P. A., Jackson, M., & Peters, E. (2020). Clinical and theoretical relevance of responses to analogues of psychotic experiences in people with psychotic experiences with and without a need-for-care: An experimental study. Psychological Medicine, 50(5), 761–770. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291719000576

121.   Wiseman, R., Houstoun, W., & Watt, C. (2020). Pedagogic prestidigitation: using magic tricks to enhance educational videos. PeerJ, 8, e9610.

122.  Ozono, H., Komiya, A., Kuratomi, K., Hatano, A., Fastrich, G., Raw, J. A. L., Haffey, A., Melissa, S., Lab, J. K. L., & Murayama, K. (2021). Magic Curiosity Arousing Tricks (MagicCATs): A novel stimulus collection to induce epistemic emotions. Behavior Research Methods, 53(1), 188-215.