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Brown leather wallet, open

How pickpockets trick your mind

Source: BBC

The key to a successful pickpocket isn’t sleight of hand, but knowing about how our brains work, according to neuroscientist  Susana Martinez-Conde.

This entry was posted in Perception and Reality and tagged Culture & Society, Health & Medicine, Opinion, Science & Nature, Technology on May 1, 2015 by Hilary Woods.

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