People's perceptions of magic tricks and why they are effective are often in direct contrast to how magicians feel their performances are being received by their audiences, new research has suggested.

Do magic tricks work on monkeys? Only if they have opposable thumbs like us. Psychologists tested how different species of monkey reacted to the famed French drop. Laura Baisas Apr 4, 2023 11:00 ...

Monkeys without opposable thumbs aren’t fooled by magic tricks, study finds By attempting sleight-of-hand magic tricks on monkeys, scientists learned some interesting things about cognition ...