Students in Dr. Morgan’s “Issues and Deception” class are learning magic tricks to help them better understand deception. Liam Orsini ’24 practices making several silver coins disappear one by one. He ...

A British society of magicians expelled a woman for tricking her way into the club in 1991. Now it wants to invite her back, but the woman seems to have pulled a disappearing act. By Amelia Nierenberg ...

Magicians, leaders, and manipulators all use the same principle: attention is everything. These three visual tricks are simple to learn but reveal the psychology of persuasion and illusion. You’ll ...

Through the recently digitized scrapbooks of Harry Houdini, you can be transported to the world of 19th-century magic, an era of deception and curiosity about the unknown. Houdini’s “Magicians ...