Calling all Psychology Students

[O'Brien#12]

Good day, just doing a mini dissertation and i can not for the life of me find out the information i need.
I was wondering if anyone has any sites which give information on how we enjoy being decieved? I googled it but it just brings up islamic relgious crap.

ARGGHHHH

Also anyone ever researched the psychology behind magic??

[MX113]

Hey - PM me your email address and I'll send a great article. I'd upload as an attachment, but it exceeds the max file size for the forum.

I can give you the full Jastrow article if you need it and a ton more on deception once you narrow your search parameters. This should get you started for now.

[Tubesteak Cowboy]

Hey - PM me your email address and I'll send a great article. I'd upload as an attachment, but it exceeds the max file size for the forum.

I can give you the full Jastrow article if you need it and a ton more on deception once you narrow your search parameters. This should get you started for now.Would you mind sending it to me, too? I'm interested. pcmx28@comcast.net

[MX113]

Yeah, I'll send it now. You gotta' love still having access to the unversity's password protected research database.

[O'Brien#12]

awesome My e-mail is obrieny2k@hotmail.com
Cheers mate, i appreciate it!

[MX113]

Sent. Let me know if you need anything more specific. I saw a lot of interesting stuff.

[O'Brien#12]

Thanks man.....i am doing it on the basic stuff....misdirection, choreographic misdirection. The normal stuff. i am also chucking in hypnosis and that because its a bit more meaty in regards to the info i can use. So that involves NLP and susceptibility to "hypnosis"

Cheers man i appreciate your help.....seriously you may well be a life saver! :D

[MX113]

Yeah, I have no idea what any of the means. I just did a basic search on my university's search database and got the articles. I didn't even read far into them, if the title looked relevent was basically my criteria.

When's the paper due?

[O'Brien#12]

ummm 7th of june
its only 4000 words so i should bust it out a treat!! :-D

[ybloc657]

I have access to UCLAs psych database so i did a quick search. I found this:

Misdirection in magic: Implications for the relationship between eye gaze and attention
Abstract

Magicians use misdirection to manipulate people's attention in order to prevent their audiences from uncovering their methods. Here we used a prerecorded version of a magic trick to investigate some of the factors that accompany successful misdirection. Prior information about the nature of the trick significantly improved participants' detection of the method. The informed participants fixated closer to the event in question, suggesting that they were monitoring it more closely once they knew about the trick. The probability of detection was independent of how far the participant was looking from the “secret” event as it happened, but participants who detected the event moved their eyes towards where it took place much earlier than participants who missed it. This result is consistent with the notion that attention is allocated ahead of the current locus of fixation, and we present evidence that attention may be allocated two or more saccade targets ahead of where the participant is fixating.

if your interested i can email you the full article. i found some other ones that sound better for you, but they arent availble to me online. i could give you the article names and you could try finding them. let me know...

[O'Brien#12]

Yeah that would be ace thanks mate.....if you could send it to me i would appreciate it. I like to have as much info as poss! :-D

e-mail is obrieny2k@hotmail.com