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Ozono H, Komiya A, Kuratomi K, Hatano A, Fastrich G, Raw JAL, Haffey A, Meliss S, Lau JKL, Murayama K. Magic Curiosity Arousing Tricks (MagicCATs): A novel stimulus collection to induce epistemic emotions. Behav Res Methods 2021; 53:188-215. [PMID: 32651737 PMCID: PMC7880926 DOI: 10.3758/s13428-020-01431-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
There has been considerable interest in empirical research on epistemic emotions, i.e., emotions related to knowledge-generating qualities of cognitive tasks and activities such as curiosity, interest, and surprise. One big challenge when studying epistemic emotions is systematically inducting these emotions in restricted experimental settings. The current study created a novel stimulus set called Magic Curiosity Arousing Tricks (MagicCATs): a collection of 166 short magic trick video clips that aim to induce a variety of epistemic emotions. MagicCATs are freely available for research and can be used in a variety of ways to examine epistemic emotions. Rating data also support that the magic tricks elicit a variety of epistemic emotions with sufficient inter-stimulus variability, demonstrating good psychometric properties for their use in psychological experiments.
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- Hiroki Ozono
- Faculty of Law, Economics and Humanities, Kagoshima University, Korimoto, Kagoshima, 890-0065, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
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- Faculty of Psychology, Aichi Shukutoku University, Nagakute, Japan
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- Department of Cognitive Psychology in Education, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Earley Gate, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AL, UK
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- School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Earley Gate, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AL, UK
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- School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Earley Gate, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AL, UK
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- School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Earley Gate, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AL, UK
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- Research Institute, Kochi University of Technology, Kochi, Japan.
- School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Earley Gate, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AL, UK.
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Thomas C, Didierjean A, Maquestiaux F, Gygax P. Does Magic Offer a Cryptozoology Ground for Psychology? REVIEW OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY 2015. [DOI: 10.1037/gpr0000041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Cyril Thomas
- Laboratoire de Psychologie, Université de Franche-Comté
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- Département de Psychologie, Université de Fribourg
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Revealing ontological commitments by magic. Cognition 2015; 136:43-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.10.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2012] [Revised: 10/30/2014] [Accepted: 10/31/2014] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Rensink RA, Kuhn G. A framework for using magic to study the mind. Front Psychol 2015; 5:1508. [PMID: 25698983 PMCID: PMC4313584 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2014] [Accepted: 12/07/2014] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Over the centuries, magicians have developed extensive knowledge about the manipulation of the human mind—knowledge that has been largely ignored by psychology. It has recently been argued that this knowledge could help improve our understanding of human cognition and consciousness. But how might this be done? And how much could it ultimately contribute to the exploration of the human mind? We propose here a framework outlining how knowledge about magic can be used to help us understand the human mind. Various approaches—both old and new—are surveyed, in terms of four different levels. The first focuses on the methods in magic, using these to suggest new approaches to existing issues in psychology. The second focuses on the effects that magic can produce, such as the sense of wonder induced by seeing an apparently impossible event. Third is the consideration of magic tricks—methods and effects together—as phenomena of scientific interest in their own right. Finally, there is the organization of knowledge about magic into an informative whole, including the possibility of a science centered around the experience of wonder.
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- Ronald A Rensink
- Departments of Psychology and Computer Science, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths University of London London, UK
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