These are not the droids you’re looking for… 😉 In psychology there aren’t actually that many “tricks” like hypnosis or anything that you see in films. The best thing we can hope to do is set up some tasks and scenarios where we can get a better look at the curious ways our brains process information. Here’s a couple:
1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit%E2%80%93duck_illusion
2) https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/words.html
More recent examples or these kind of tricks are ‘the dress’ (which could be blue/black or white/gold) and Yanny or Laurel…
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