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Modern enchantments : the cultural power of secular magic
Magic, During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's work gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts--and by \"magic,\" During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows--affect people?.
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Magic disappearing acts
Step-by-step instructions teach readers about disappearing magic and tricks performed by notable magicians.
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SimSAARlabim study – The role magic tricks play in reducing pain and stress in children
Vaccination is an essential preventative medical intervention, but needle fearandinjection painmay result in vaccination hesistancy.
To assess the role of magic tricks – no trick vs. one trick („disappearing handkerchief trick“) vs. three tricks (“disappearing handkerchief trick“, “jumping rubber band trick“, and “disappearing ring trick“) – performed by a professional magician and pediatrician during routine vaccination in reducing discomfort/pain and the stress response (heart rate, visual analogue scale (VAS), and biomarkers (cortisol, Immunoglobulin A (IgA), α-amylase, and overall protein concentration in saliva before and after vaccination).
Randomized controlled trial (RCT) in healthy children aged 6–11 years undergoing routine vaccination in an outpatient setting.
50 children (26 female) were enrolled (no trick: n = 17, 1 trick: n = 16, 3 tricks: n = 17) with a median age of 6.9 years (range: 5.3–10.8 years). We detected no significant differences among the three groups in their stress reponse (heart rate before and after vaccination and cortisol, IgA, α-amylase, and overall protein concentrations in saliva before and after vaccination) or regarding pain assessment using the VAS.
Although children undergoing routine outpatient vaccination appeared to enjoy a magician’s presence, the concomitant performance of magic tricks revealed no significant effect on the stress response.
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Presto change-o! : jaw-dropping magic with dinner table objects
Step-by-step instructions and photos describe how to perform magic tricks.
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Trade of the tricks
From risqué cabaret performances to engrossing after-hours shop talk, Trade of the Tricks offers an unprecedented look inside the secretive subculture of modern magicians. Entering the flourishing Paris magic scene as an apprentice, Graham M. Jones gives a firsthand account of how magicians learn to perform their astonishing deceptions. He follows the day-to-day lives of some of France's most renowned performers, revealing not only how secrets are created and shared, but also how they are stolen and destroyed. In a book brimming with humor and surprise, Jones shows how today's magicians marshal creativity and passion in striving to elevate their amazing skill into high art. The book's lively cast of characters includes female and queer performers whose work is changing the face of a historically masculine genre.
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Abracadabra! : tricks for rookie magicians : 4D a magical augmented reading experience
\"Describes how to prepare and perform several magic tricks for beginner level magicians. Includes embedded links for added online instructional videos that can be accessed with the Capstone 4D app\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Influencing choices with conversational primes
Past research demonstrates that unconscious primes can affect people’s decisions. However, these free choice priming paradigms present participants with very few alternatives. Magicians’ forcing techniques provide a powerful tool to investigate how natural implicit primes can unconsciously influence decisions with multiple alternatives. We used video and live performances of the mental priming force. This technique uses subtle nonverbal and verbal conversational primes to influence spectators to choose the three of diamonds. Our results show that a large number of participants chose the target card while reporting feeling free and in control of their choice. Even when they were influenced by the primes, participants typically failed to give the reason for their choice. These results show that naturally embedding primes within a person’s speech and gestures effectively influenced people’s decision making. This raises the possibility that this form of mind control could be used to effectively manipulate other mental processes.
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P.J. Funnybunny's bag of tricks
P.J. studies and practices to perform a magic show for his family and friends but afterwards no one seems to be interested in his tricks, so he shows them the best trick of all.
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Too perfect to be good? An investigation of magicians’ Too Perfect Theory
The “Too Perfect Theory” states that if a trick is too perfect, it might paradoxically become less impressive, or give away its secret method. This theory suggests that an increased impossibility results in a less magical effect. The Too Perfect Theory is often applied to magic effects, but it conflicts with recent scientific investigations showing that participants’ level of enjoyment of a magic performance is positively related to their perceived impossibility of the trick. The current article investigated whether an imperfect magic performance is more impressive than a perfect one. Across two experiments, we studied whether participants enjoy a performance more if the effect is not perfect. We also examined the different types of explanations people give to these two types of performances. The results showed that participants enjoyed a perfect performance more than an imperfect one. However, consistently with the Too Perfect Theory, participants watching the perfect performance also discovered the correct method behind the magic trick more frequently and believed the performance was staged more often. Moreover, participants’ method explanation significantly impacted their reports about the performance.
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