An illusion involving a hidden thumb confounds capuchin and squirrel monkeys for the same reason it does humans -- it misdirects expected outcomes of actions they can carry out. However, marmosets ...

A Humboldt's squirrel monkey is fooled by the "French Drop" magic trick. Credit: E. Garcia-Pelegrin et al., 2023 The key to a successful sleight-of-hand magic trick is how well a magician manipulates ...

He’s known for cracking jokes and making people smile with his magic, and this week Jasen Magic is sharing his skills while guest-hosting “Live In The D.” Jasen’s love for magic started when he was a ...

When 10-year-old Cosmo Solano made a scarf disappear from his bare hands, his grandmother was beside herself. The devout Catholic thought her grandson was possessed by “Diablo,” and booted him out of ...

Monkeys with hands that resemble ours fall for a sleight-of-hand magic trick, but those without opposable thumbs aren’t fooled. These differences illustrate how primates’ expectations of the actions ...

Psychologists used a sleight-of-hand trick called the French drop, in which an object appears to vanish when a spectator assumes it is taken from one hand by the hidden thumb of the other hand. The ...