Derren Brown Interview (1/6) - Richard Dawkins
This is the full uncut interview filmed for the Channel 4 TV program "The Enemies of Reason." This video is provided free online by http://RichardDawkins.net . If you enjoy the video and...
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Dawkins: Derren could you begin by telling me what cold reading is and how it's used? Brown: Cold reading is I suppose the way that a complete stranger can seemingly tell you everything about yourself without being psychic and without knowing anything about you. In essence the cold reader or psychic is supplying a lot of words and you as the sitter, the other person are supplying the meaning to those words And it relies on a lot of techniques, it's not really a question of forensic body reading and the sort of things that people might, it's not really normally even that clever. There are linguistic tricks, which are unless you are aware of them are very easy to fall for. Those tricks can give the impression that the person knows everything abou...
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Dawkins: Derren could you begin by telling me what cold reading is and how it's used? Brown: Cold reading is I suppose the way that a complete stranger can seemingly tell you everything about yourself without being psychic and without knowing anything about you. In essence the cold reader or psychic is supplying a lot of words and you as the sitter, the other person are supplying the meaning to those words And it relies on a lot of techniques, it's not really a question of forensic body reading and the sort of things that people might, it's not really normally even that clever. There are linguistic tricks, which are unless you are aware of them are very easy to fall for. Those tricks can give the impression that the person knows everything abou...
