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The Psychology of MagicPage 12004 Outagamie County Historical SocietyThe Psychology of MagicWisconsin State Curriculum Alignment:Theater Arts E.4.6 Rehearse and perform a scene or play for peers and invited guestsHealth F.4.1 Distinguish between and demonstrate verbal and nonverbalcommunicationIn order to be successful magicians also rely on psychology. Psychology is the sciencethat deals with the way our brains work and how we behave as a result. Magicians relyon their knowledge of psychology and specifically memory perception (how werecognize and interpret things we see hear taste touch or smell according toinformation stored in our brains) and deception (the act of misleading someone intobelieving something that is false) in order to practice their art. Using psychology theycreate an effect (what the audience sees or perceives). The way that they do this iscalled the method. Author Simon Singh describes the method as the magicians secretway of achieving the effect. Often psychology is used to disguise the method andseparate it from the effect. The audience will then see the effect but not the method.Physical misdirection is one way magicians use psychology to disguise their method.Through physical misdirection the magician can direct the audiences attention tosomething and while they are focused on that the magician can perform the trickeryelsewhere totally unnoticed. Misdirection works because of psychological principleslike the tendency of the human mind to be easily distracted by movement or theintroduction of something new and the tendency to look where others are looking. Asimple example follows: A magician shows an empty hat then turns to introduce hisassistant. As he looks toward her so does the audience. The assistant trips coming ontothe stage and while the audiences attention is on her the magician sneaks a rabbit intothe empty hat.In mental misdirection a magician misdirects the audiences suspicion rather than theirattention. The magicia ...

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