Misdirection In The Magician

Misdirection The most frequently used method by the magicians when performing is visual and social misdirection. Visual illusions are commonly used by neuro scientists to disconnect the neural activities that matches the physical reality the person is seeing. A magician Hieronymus Bosch (2008) said that a static object can seem to be more noticeable than a dynamic object. An experiment was done by Ryo Tachibana, from the Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, in order to investigate how different types of misdirection affected the deceptiveness of the trick. In the experiment, a magician placed down and shuffled three cups on the table with one cup containing a ball. While the cups were being shuffled,

Misdirection is considered the central method used by magicians and has attracted the entire magic industries (Martinez & Kuhn, 2011). There are many different ways such as social cues and illusions other than misdirection, however according to Posner (1980), misdirection was used in every single tricks in the magic history. For example, the ball tossing vanish is to be considered to be done with only misdirection. The rising of the head by the magician when tossing the ball is considered a misdirection, since the spectator is watching the place where the magician is watching (Barnhart, 2010). This vanishing ball trick and the experiment with the three cups and a ball are no different but are examples of the use of misdirection. Nonetheless, this is not true as these two experiments have their own purpose to prove different aspects of psychology. The vanishing ball experiment does use a part of misdirection, however in this case, the illusion of memory is the umbrella of the entire experiment and misdirection is only a small part. The magician purposely raises his head every time the ball is tossed, in order to create a ‘habit’ for the spectator to follow. Therefore, this repetition is more of a force and not a complete