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Performance by Professor Christopher French

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Photograph of a male magician holding up 2 playing cards in each hand, looking directly to camera. In the foreground are the backs of the heads of his audience. The magician is bathed in the pink and blue of the stage lighting.
Smoke and Mirrors magic show, Steven Pocock. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

What you'll do

Explore explanations for paranormal phenomena with Professor Christopher French, Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths. You’ll encounter the cognitive biases that affect perception, memory, reasoning and other psychological processes, and reflect on how these biases make us human.

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Need to know

Location

We’ll be in Gallery 1. When you enter Wellcome Collection, it’s on the left on level 0.

Queuing likely

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