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Gustav Kuhn is affiliated with Plymouth University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a particular focus on social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. The scientist's work also touches on clinical psychology, sociology, political science, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their research encompasses diverse topics including paranormal experiences and beliefs, death anxiety and social exclusion, neural and behavioral psychology studies, psychedelics and drug studies, sleep and wakefulness research, decision-making and behavioral economics, and the psychology of social influence.

Gustav Kuhn has contributed to multiple publications, including the following recent papers:

  • Forcing you to experience wonder: Unconsciously biasing people's choice through strategic physical positioning, 2020, Consciousness and Cognition
  • Influencing choices with conversational primes: How a magic trick unconsciously influences card choices, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The apparent action causation: Using a magician forcing technique to investigate our illusory sense of agency over the outcome of our choices, 2020, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Magic on the Menu: Where Are All the Magical Food and Beverage Experiences?, 2020, Foods
  • Subtly encouraging more deliberate decisions: using a forcing technique and population stereotype to investigate free will, 2020, Psychological Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gustav Kuhn include:

  • Alice Pailhès
  • Cyril Thomas
  • Steven E. Bagienski
  • Christine Möhr
  • Jeniffer Ortega

The scientist regularly publishes in journals such as:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Consciousness and Cognition
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice

Best Publications

  • Potential social interactions are important to social attention

    Kaitlin E. W. Laidlaw;Tom Foulsham;Gustav Kuhn;Alan Kingstone

  • Look away! Eyes and arrows engage oculomotor responses automatically

    Gustav Kuhn;Alan Kingstone

  • Towards a science of magic

    Gustav Kuhn;Alym A. Amlani;Ronald A. Rensink

  • You look where I look! Effect of gaze cues on overt and covert attention in misdirection

    Gustav Kuhn;Benjamin W. Tatler;Geoff G. Cole

  • There's more to magic than meets the eye

    Gustav Kuhn;Michael F. Land

  • A framework for using magic to study the mind

    Ronald A. Rensink;Gustav Kuhn

  • Magic and fixation: now you don't see it, now you do.

    Gustav Kuhn;Benjamin W Tatler

  • Implicit learning of nonlocal musical rules: implicitly learning more than chunks.

    Gustav Kuhn;Zoltán Dienes

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

    Gustav Kuhn;Benjamin W. Tatler;John M. Findlay;Geoff G. Cole

  • Imaging the impossible: an fMRI study of impossible causal relationships in magic tricks.

    Benjamin A. Parris;Gustav Kuhn;Guy A. Mizon;Abdelmalek Benattayallah

  • The influence of eye-gaze and arrow pointing distractor cues on voluntary eye movements

    Gustav Kuhn;Valerie Benson

  • Eye movements affirm: automatic overt gaze and arrow cueing for typical adults and adults with autism spectrum disorder.

    Gustav Kuhn;Gustav Kuhn;Valerie Benson;Sue Fletcher-Watson;Hanna Kovshoff

  • A psychologically-based taxonomy of misdirection

    Gustav Kuhn;Hugo A. Caffaratti;Robert Teszka;Ronald A. Rensink

  • Increased gaze following for fearful faces. It depends on what you're looking for!

    Gustav Kuhn;Jason Tipples

  • Misdirection, attention and awareness: inattentional blindness reveals temporal relationship between eye movements and visual awareness.

    Gustav Kuhn;John M. Findlay

  • The Magic Grasp: Motor Expertise in Deception

    C. Cavina-Pratesi;Gustav Kuhn;M. Ietswaart;A. D. Milner

  • How Magic Changes Our Expectations About Autism

    Gustav Kuhn;Anastasia Kourkoulou;Susan R. Leekam

  • Misdirection – Past, Present, and the Future

    Gustav Kuhn;Luis M. Martinez

  • Don't be fooled! Attentional responses to social cues in a face-to-face and video magic trick reveals greater top-down control for overt than covert attention.

    Gustav Kuhn;Robert Teszka;Natalia Tenaw;Alan Kingstone

  • Sleights of mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our everyday deceptions

    Gustav Kuhn

  • Differences in the types of musical regularity learnt in incidental- and intentional-learning conditions

    Gustav Kuhn;Zoltán Dienes

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine Mohr
Christine Mohr University of Lausanne
Alan Kingstone
Alan Kingstone University of British Columbia
Ronald A. Rensink
Ronald A. Rensink University of British Columbia
Zoltan Dienes
Zoltan Dienes University of Sussex
Benjamin W. Tatler
Benjamin W. Tatler University of Aberdeen
Susan R. Leekam
Susan R. Leekam Cardiff University
John M. Findlay
John M. Findlay Durham University
Tom Foulsham
Tom Foulsham University of Essex
Amir Raz
Amir Raz Chapman University
Robert W. Kentridge
Robert W. Kentridge Durham University

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