Choosing in freedom or forced to choose? Introspective blindness to psychological forcing in stage-magic.
We investigated an individual ability to identify whether choices were made freely or forced by external parameters. We capitalized on magical setups where the notion of psychological forcing constitutes a well trodden path. In live stage magic, a magician guessed cards from spectators while inquiri...
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| author | Diego E Shalom Maximiliano G de Sousa Serro Maximiliano Giaconia Luis M Martinez Andres Rieznik Mariano Sigman |
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| description | We investigated an individual ability to identify whether choices were made freely or forced by external parameters. We capitalized on magical setups where the notion of psychological forcing constitutes a well trodden path. In live stage magic, a magician guessed cards from spectators while inquiring how freely they thought they had made the choice. Our data showed a marked blindness in the introspection of free choice. Spectators assigned comparable ratings when choosing the card that the magician deliberately forced them compared to any other card, even in classical forcing, where the magician literally handles a card to the participant This observation was paralleled by a laboratory experiment where we observed modest changes in subjective reports by factors with drastic effect in choice. Pupil dilatation, which is known to tag slow cognitive events related to memory and attention, constitutes an efficient fingerprint to index subjective and objective aspects of choice. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9541bc0c9b0240a8944850d2eb1152ef2022-12-21T23:09:29ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032013-01-0183e5825410.1371/journal.pone.0058254Choosing in freedom or forced to choose? Introspective blindness to psychological forcing in stage-magic.Diego E ShalomMaximiliano G de Sousa SerroMaximiliano GiaconiaLuis M MartinezAndres RieznikMariano SigmanWe investigated an individual ability to identify whether choices were made freely or forced by external parameters. We capitalized on magical setups where the notion of psychological forcing constitutes a well trodden path. In live stage magic, a magician guessed cards from spectators while inquiring how freely they thought they had made the choice. Our data showed a marked blindness in the introspection of free choice. Spectators assigned comparable ratings when choosing the card that the magician deliberately forced them compared to any other card, even in classical forcing, where the magician literally handles a card to the participant This observation was paralleled by a laboratory experiment where we observed modest changes in subjective reports by factors with drastic effect in choice. Pupil dilatation, which is known to tag slow cognitive events related to memory and attention, constitutes an efficient fingerprint to index subjective and objective aspects of choice.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23516455/?tool=EBI |
| spellingShingle | Diego E Shalom Maximiliano G de Sousa Serro Maximiliano Giaconia Luis M Martinez Andres Rieznik Mariano Sigman Choosing in freedom or forced to choose? Introspective blindness to psychological forcing in stage-magic. PLoS ONE |
| title | Choosing in freedom or forced to choose? Introspective blindness to psychological forcing in stage-magic. |
| title_full | Choosing in freedom or forced to choose? Introspective blindness to psychological forcing in stage-magic. |
| title_fullStr | Choosing in freedom or forced to choose? Introspective blindness to psychological forcing in stage-magic. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Choosing in freedom or forced to choose? Introspective blindness to psychological forcing in stage-magic. |
| title_short | Choosing in freedom or forced to choose? Introspective blindness to psychological forcing in stage-magic. |
| title_sort | choosing in freedom or forced to choose introspective blindness to psychological forcing in stage magic |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23516455/?tool=EBI |
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