Misdirection in magic: Implications for the relationship between eye gaze and attention

By Gustav Kuhn, B. Tatler, J. Findlay, G. Cole. 2008

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You look where I look! Effect of gaze cues on overt and covert attention in misdirection (2009, methodology): “We have developed magic tricks that allow us to consider the extent to which an observer's gaze is misdirected by the magician's gaze (Kuhn & Tatler, 2005 ; Kuhn, Tatler, Findlay, & Cole, 2008 ).”
Example-Based Learning: Integrating Cognitive and Social-Cognitive Research Perspectives (2010, background): “On the one hand, eye tracking research has shown that our gaze allocation is socially directed, that is, we tend to follow another person's gaze (which is often used in magic tricks to misdirect observers' attention; Kuhn et al. 2008).”
Get real! Resolving the debate about equivalent social stimuli (2009, background): “For example, recent work has shown that the effect of misdirection in a cigarette magic trick (occurring when the magician looks at one hand while secretly dropping a cigarette with the other, giving the impression that the cigarette has “vanished”) is stronger in live demonstrations than in videota”