Debatable Mind Control

You can read Geoff Cole’s critiques of the MAGIC Lab’s recent research into forcing HERE and HERE

And you can read Alice & Gustav’s response HERE

You can also see the original paper that the sparked the debate HERE

References:

Pailhès, A., & Kuhn, G. (2020). Influencing choices with conversational primes: How a magic trick unconsciously influences card choices. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(30), 17675-17679.

Cole, G. G. (2020). Forcing the issue: Little psychological influence in a magician’s paradigm. Consciousness and Cognition, 84, 103002.

Cole, G. G. (2020). Who’s fooling whom in the science of magic?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(3).

Pailhès, A., & Kuhn, G. (2021). Reply to Cole: Magic and deception—do magicians mislead science?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(3).