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• 2025

  Challenging magicians’ intuitive insights: The role of audience participation in experiencing a magic trick.

  Wincza, R. & Kuhn, G., 24 Apr 2025, In: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • magician 100%
  • trick 100%
  • Audience Participation 100%
  • Performance Art 100%
  • Cultural Users 60%
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• Expertise in magicians - testing the insight hypothesis.

  Kuhn, G., Pailhès, A. & Cole, G., 4 Jun 2025, In: The Journal of Performance Magic. 9, 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Deception 100%
  • Human Cognition 100%
  • Make Believe 100%
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• More Than Just a Magic Trick? Exploring an Audience’s Supernatural Attributions for Magicians’ Performances

  Silvia, P. J., Crasson, S. J., Greengross, G. & kuhn, G., 1 Apr 2025, (Submitted).

  Research output: Working paper › Preprint

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  • Openness to Experience 100%
  • Extraversion 100%
  • Neuroticism 100%
  • precognition 25%

• The enjoyment of live magic and its relation to other forms of entertainment

  Kuhn, G., Rustrick, E., Pattundeen, S. K. & Chamberlain, R., 20 Apr 2025, (Accepted/In press) The Journal of Performance Magic.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  • Regression Analysis 100%
  • Performance Art 100%
  • dance theater 8%
  • Film music 8%
  • Aversion 8%

• The eye-gaze following mechanisms in naturalistic scenes: Evidence from an eye tracker study

  Monachesi, B., Pecchinenda, A. & kuhn, G., 15 Jan 2025, (Submitted).

  Research output: Working paper › Preprint

  • Visual Search 100%
  • Cognitive Function 50%
  • Eye Movement 50%

• What Can Conjuring Tell Us About Cognition? The Future of the Science of Magic

  Cole, G. G. & Kuhn, G., Feb 2025, In: Current Directions in Psychological Science. 34, 1, p. 64-70 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Psychological Theory 100%
  • Human Cognition 100%
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• 2024

  Explaining the inexplicable: a study of people's reactions to futuristic AI

  Masters, P., Smith, W., Kuhn, G., Lui, J. J. & Kelly, R. M., 4 Dec 2024, In Proceedings of OZCHI Nov 30 - Dec 4, 2024 (OzCHI'24).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceedings published in a book › peer-review

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• Magic for the blind: are auditory tricks impossible?

  Kuhn, G., Thomas, C., Gibgot, T. & Ekroll, V., 4 Oct 2024, In: Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 28, 11, p. 971-973 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Auditory Perception 100%
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• Priming (dis)Belief in Free Will with Illusionism

  Peng, W., Cracco, E., kuhn, G., Pailhes, A. & Brass, M., 5 Mar 2024, (Submitted).

  Research output: Working paper › Preprint

• Toward a Theory of Exposure

  Rappert, B. & Kuhn, G., 27 Oct 2024, In: The Journal of Performance Magic. 7, 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Empirical Research 100%
  • Justice 100%
  • Social Interaction 100%
  • Familiarity 100%
  • Disclosure 100%
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• 2023

  A balanced view of impossible aesthetics: An empirical investigation of how impossibility relates to our enjoyment of magic tricks

  Bagienski, S. E. & Kuhn, G., Jan 2023, In: i-Perception. 14, 1, p. 204166952211425-204166952211425

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Empirical 100%
  • Esthetics 100%
  • Impossible 100%
  • trick 100%
  • Enjoyment 100%

• Don’t read this paper! Reverse psychology, contrast and position effects in a magician forcing technique

  Pailhès, A. & Kuhn, G., 2 Mar 2023, In: The Journal of Performance Magic. 7, 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Attractivity 100%
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• Experiencing misinformation: The effect of pre-exposure warnings and debunking on psychic beliefs

  Kuhn, G., Ortega, J., Simmons, K., Thomas, C. & Mohr, C., Jun 2023, In: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 76, 6, p. 1445-1456

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Deception 100%

• Experiencing the improbable: How does the objective probability of a magic trick occurring influence a spectator’s experience?

  Kuhn, G., Pailhès, A., Jay, J. & Lukian, M., 16 Oct 2023, In: Decision. 0, 0

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• The Psychology of magic - From lab to stage

  Pailhès, A. & Kuhn, G., 2023, Vanishing Inc.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

• What Can Magic and Science Tell Us About the Experience of Thought Insertion

  Pailhès, A., Olson, J. A. & Kuhn, G., 1 Oct 2023, Intruders in the Mind: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Thought Insertion. p. 225-238

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Priming 100%
  • Mind-Reading 100%
  • Psychology 100%
  • Thought insertion 100%
  • Mentalism 16%
• 2022

  Breaking’ the Magician’s Code: The Problem with Exposure Rules

  Kuhn, G., Dec 2022, VANISH, December.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

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  • Secret 100%
  • Human Mind 100%
  • magician 100%
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• Mastering the impossible: Piloting an easier-than-expected magic intervention that acts as a source of self-efficacy.

  Bagienski, S. E., Kuhn, G., Goddard, L. & de, A. E. S. B. S., Sept 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. 9, 3, p. 243-256

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Misdirection in Global Health

  Peeters, G. K., Kingori, P., Friesen, P., Gerrets, R., Douglas-Jones, R. & Kuhn, G., 15 May 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Science & Technology Studies. 35, 2, p. 2-12

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Misdirection – Magic, Psychology and its Application

  Kuhn, G., Kingori, P. & Peeters, G. K., 15 May 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Science & Technology Studies. 35, 2, p. 13-29

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Public Health 100%
  • Deception 50%

• Not Just a Trick: A survey study exploring how ‘exposing’ exhibition visitors to science of magic concepts impacts their appreciation of magic

  Medeiros, G., Tompkins, M., Bagienski, S. & Kuhn, G., 21 Oct 2022, In: The Journal of Performance Magic. 6

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Psychology 100%
  • Research 100%
  • Scientific Explanation 16%
  • dislike 16%
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• Supporting the psychological health of our students: An arts-based community magic workshop for adapting to university life.

  Bagienski, S. E., Kuhn, G. & Oliver, B., Sept 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. 9, 3, p. 285-303

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Too perfect to be good? An investigation of magicians’ Too Perfect Theory

  Pailhès, A., Lee, K. & Kuhn, G., 30 May 2022, In: PeerJ. 10, 0

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • magician 100%
  • trick 100%
  • Impossibility 66%
  • Imperfect 66%
  • Secret 33%
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• What can Magic Reveal About the Brain

  Kuhn, G. & Thomas, C., 2022, Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience, 2nd edition. Elsevier, Vol. 0. p. 597-604

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• 2021

  Differential Effects of Experience and Information Cues on Metacognitive Judgments About Others’ Change Detection Abilities

  Ortega, J., Montañes, P., Barnhart, A. & Kuhn, G., Jul 2021, In: i-Perception. 12, 4, p. 204166952110392-204166952110392

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Change Blindness 100%

• Mind Control Tricks: Magicians’ Forcing and Free Will

  Pailhès, A. & Kuhn, G., May 2021, In: Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 25, 5, p. 338-341

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Reply to Cole: Magic and deception—do magicians mislead science?

  Pailhès, A. & Kuhn, G., 19 Jan 2021, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118, 3

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Subtly encouraging more deliberate decisions: using a forcing technique and population stereotype to investigate free will

  Pailhès, A. & Kuhn, G., Jun 2021, In: Psychological Research. 85, 4, p. 1380-1390

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Free Will 100%
  • Embodied Cognition 50%
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• Talking to the Dead in the Classroom: How a Supposedly Psychic Event Impacts Beliefs and Feelings

  Lesaffre, L., Kuhn, G., Jopp, D. S., Mantzouranis, G., Diouf, C. N., Rochat, D. & Mohr, C., Dec 2021, In: Psychological Reports. 124, 6, p. 2427-2452

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open-Ended Question 100%
  • Confirmation Bias 50%
  • Confederates 50%
  • Spiritualism 50%

• The magician’s choice: Providing illusory choice and sense of agency with the equivoque forcing technique.

  Pailhès, A., Kumari, S. & Kuhn, G., Jul 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 150, 7, p. 1358-1372

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• What can Magic Reveal About the Brain

  Kuhn, G. & Thomas, C., 1 Jan 2021, Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience: Volumes 1-3, Second edition. Elsevier, Vol. 1-3. p. V3-597-V3-604

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

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  • Human Brain 100%
  • Research 100%
  • Review 33%
  • magician 33%
• 2020

  A psychologically based taxonomy of Magicians’ forcing Techniques: How magicians influence our choices, and how to use this to study psychological mechanisms

  Pailhès, A., Rensink, R. A. & Kuhn, G., Nov 2020, In: Consciousness and Cognition. 86, 0, p. 103038-103038

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Beyond the crossroads of magic, health, and well-being

  Bagienski, S. & Kuhn, G., 2020, In: Public Health Panorama. p. 155-210

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Forcing you to experience wonder: Unconsciously biasing people’s choice through strategic physical positioning

  Kuhn, G., Pailhès, A. & Lan, Y., Apr 2020, In: Consciousness and Cognition. 80, 0, p. 102902-102902

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• How Stage Magic Perpetuates Magical Beliefs

  Mohr, C. & Kuhn, G., 2020, Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 93-106 14 p. (Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture; vol. Part F2180).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Human 100%
  • Confirmation Bias 100%

• Influencing choices with conversational primes: How a magic trick unconsciously influences card choices

  Pailhès, A. & Kuhn, G., 28 Jul 2020, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117, 30, p. 17675-17679

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Mental Process 100%
  • Decision Making 50%

• Magic on the Menu: Where Are All the Magical Food and Beverage Experiences?

  Spence, C., Youssef, J. & Kuhn, G., 28 Feb 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Foods. 9, 3, p. 257-257

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Dining 100%
  • Review 33%
  • Popular 33%
  • Brown 33%
  • Hope 33%

• Nothing else matters: Video games create sustained attentional selection away from task-irrelevant features

  Cutting, J., Cairns, P. & Kuhn, G., Nov 2020, In: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 82, 8, p. 3907-3919

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The apparent action causation: Using a magician forcing technique to investigate our illusory sense of agency over the outcome of our choices

  Pailhès, A. & Kuhn, G., Nov 2020, In: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 73, 11, p. 1784-1795

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2019

  Are Women Perceived as Worse Magicians Than Men? Gender Bias When Evaluating Magic Tricks

  Gygax, P., Thomas, C., Didierjean, A. & Kuhn, G., 13 Nov 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Social Psychological Bulletin. 14, 3

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • magician 100%
  • trick 100%
  • Cognitive 20%
  • Cognitive Dissonance 20%

• Experiencing the Impossible

  Kuhn, G., 2019, In: Default journal. 0, 0

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Magical Potential: Why Magic Performances Should be Used to Explore the Psychological Factors Contributing to Human Belief Formation

  Mohr, C., Lesaffre, L. & Kuhn, G., Mar 2019, In: Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. 53, 1, p. 126-137

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Studying “natural” eye movements in an “unnatural” social environment: The influence of social activity, framing, and sub-clinical traits on gaze aversion

  Mansour, H. & Kuhn, G., Aug 2019, In: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 72, 8, p. 1913-1925

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Eye Movement 100%
  • Social Activity 100%
  • Social Interaction 100%
  • Social Environment 100%
  • Skype 33%

• The crossroads of magic and wellbeing: A review of wellbeing-focused magic programs, empirical studies, and conceivable theories

  Bagienski, S. & Kuhn, G., 8 Jul 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of Wellbeing. 9, 2, p. 41-65

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Why are you looking at me? It’s because I’m talking, but mostly because I’m staring or not doing much

  Scott, H., Batten, J. P. & Kuhn, G., Jan 2019, In: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 81, 1, p. 109-118

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2018

  Exploiting failures in metacognition through magic: Visual awareness as a source of visual metacognition bias

  Ortega, J., Montañes, P., Barnhart, A. & Kuhn, G., Oct 2018, In: Consciousness and Cognition. 65, 0, p. 152-168

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Fake science: The impact of pseudo-psychological demonstrations on people’s beliefs in psychological principles

  Lan, Y., Mohr, C., Hu, X. & Kuhn, G., 27 Nov 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: PLoS ONE. 13, 11, p. e0207629-e0207629

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• It is magic! How impossible solutions prevent the discovery of obvious ones?

  Thomas, C., Didierjean, A. & Kuhn, G., Dec 2018, In: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 71, 12, p. 2481-2487

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Magic Performances – When Explained in Psychic Terms by University Students

  Lesaffre, L., Kuhn, G., Abu-Akel, A., Rochat, D. & Mohr, C., 6 Nov 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Frontiers in Psychology. 9, 0

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Mental states modulate gaze following, but not automatically

  Kuhn, G., Vacaityte, I., D'Souza, A. D. C., Millett, A. C. & Cole, G. G., Nov 2018, In: Cognition. 180, 0, p. 1-9

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review