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| Title |
Explanations of a magic trick across the life span
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, March 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00219 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jay A. Olson, Irina Demacheva, Amir Raz |
| Abstract |
Studying how children and adults explain magic tricks can reveal developmental differences in cognition. We showed 167 children (aged 4-13 years) a video of a magician making a pen vanish and asked them to explain the trick. Although most tried to explain the secret, none of them correctly identified it. The younger children provided more supernatural interpretations and more often took the magician's actions at face value. Combined with a similar study of adults (N = 1008), we found that both young children and older adults were particularly overconfident in their explanations of the trick. Our methodology demonstrates the feasibility of using magic to study cognitive development across the life span. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 11 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 | 36% |
| Finland | 1 | 9% |
| Canada | 1 | 9% |
| Germany | 1 | 9% |
| United States | 1 | 9% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 9% |
| Unknown | 2 | 18% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 64% |
| Scientists | 3 | 27% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 9% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 33 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 32 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 21% |
| Researcher | 5 | 15% |
| Lecturer | 2 | 6% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 6% |
| Other | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 5 | 15% |
| Unknown | 11 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 10 | 30% |
| Neuroscience | 3 | 9% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 6% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 6% |
| Mathematics | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 5 | 15% |
| Unknown | 10 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 November 2023.
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#161
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