Centre for Brain Science, University of Essex, CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom.
Conscious Cogn. 2020 Sep;84:103002. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2020.103002. Epub 2020 Aug 13.
Forcing is usually described as the effect in which stage magicians covertly influence decisions made by spectators. The phenomenon has been subject to a number of recent articles and is typically placed within the context of social influence, priming, decision making, awareness, free will, and the science of magic. In the present paper I will argue that forcing researchers, when framing and describing the phenomenon, have exaggerated what magicians typically achieve with the technique. Specifically, the magician is said to influence and manipulate the spectator's decision when in fact the vast majority of forces do not include any such influence. The consequence of this misrepresentation is that psychologists will be led to believe that the forcing phenomenon has more to contribute to priming and the psychology of influence than it actually does.
强迫通常被描述为舞台魔术师暗中影响观众决策的效果。这种现象已经成为最近一些文章的主题，通常被置于社会影响、启动、决策、意识、自由意志和魔术科学的背景下。在本文中，我将论证，当研究人员构建和描述这种现象时，他们夸大了魔术师通常通过这种技巧所能达到的效果。具体来说，魔术师被说成是在影响和操纵观众的决定，而实际上绝大多数的强迫都不包含任何这样的影响。这种误导的后果是，心理学家将认为强迫现象对启动和影响心理学的贡献比实际情况要大。
