{"id":6288,"date":"2015-03-24T20:18:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T02:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6288"},"modified":"2015-03-24T20:18:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T02:18:39","slug":"the-hidden-tricks-of-powerful-persuasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6288","title":{"rendered":"The hidden tricks of powerful persuasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20150324-the-hidden-tricks-of-persuasion\">David Robson<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Olson has spent a lifetime exploring the subtle ways of tricking people\u2019s perception, and it all began with magic. \u201cI started magic tricks when I was five and performing when I was seven,\u201d he says.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;As an undergraduate in psychology, he found the new understanding of the mind often chimed with the skills he had learnt with his hobby. \u201cLots of what they said about attention and memory were just what magicians had been saying in a different way,\u201d he says.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;One card trick, in particular, captured his imagination as he set about his research. It involved flicking through a deck in front of an audience member, who is asked to pick a card randomly. Unknown to the volunteer, he already worked out which card they would choose, allowing him to reach into his pocket and pluck the exact card they had named \u2013 much to the astonishment of the crowd.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Robson: Olson has spent a lifetime exploring the subtle ways of tricking people\u2019s perception, and it all began with magic. \u201cI started magic tricks when I was five and performing when I was seven,\u201d he says.&nbsp;&nbsp;As an undergraduate in psychology, he found the new understanding of the mind often chimed with the skills he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6289,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions\/6289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}