I've seen several videos on cold reading in the past. While basic, this one is quick, dirty, fun and gets the point across in a cute British accent and creative directing.
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-be-psychic-cold-reading-techniques
Highly recommended. This is how instructional videos should look like.
Update:
A reader suggested the above video was minimal, barely a glance into the subject. I agree, but like it.
More instructional videos (more like Power Point presentations recorded into videos) on cold reading can be found on YouTube, in four parts:
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=labhmXW5VUU
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-KWkZ1UqJI
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpIMg5YmUK8
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AL91hPGlto
The most famous text on cold reading is by Ray Hyman, Cold Reading: How to Convince Strangers That You Know All About Them. From “The Outer Edge, Classic Investigations of the Paranormal”:
http://ruahmidbar.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/strangers.doc
And here are Ray Hyman's 13 points in Guide to "Cold Reading":
http://www.skeptics.com.au/articles/coldread.htm
As a final example, check out this excerpt from the film Young Sherlock Holmes, in which an adolescent Watson is given a quick lesson in “simple deduction”.
Other resources are readily available on Google.
Pinky.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
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