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Part of the fun of Derren Brown is he will sometimes completely lie about how a trick was performed.

British illusionist Derren Brown does a lot of stuff with hypnosis and subliminal influencing of people...

Most of the fun with Derren Brown stems from wondering what is a real effect and what is just elaborate trickery.

Milgram, the art of Sales plus the aforementioned Derren Brown and his many layers of deception are enough to make the point.

If any one is interested in tracking it down, Derren Brown - The Experiments.

Since the first broadcast of his show Derren Brown: Mind Control in 2000, Brown has become increasingly well known for his mind-reading act.

I'm not sure how many flips this took but Derren Brown gets 10 in a row.

That said, Derren is one of the masters in this field...

Think evil Derren Brown and you'll be close to the mark.

In fact Derren Brown made a career out of it.

Supposedly, what Derren Brown actually admites to doing is filming a scene N times with volunteers, and then discarding the N-m people who didn't fall for the trick.

I have long lost trust that anything Derren Brown does is legit.

For a good example of confirmation bias watch Derren Brown's "The System" [1] where he makes a woman believe an unknown benefactor has a foolproof system for betting on horses.

"Tricks of the Mind" by Derren Brown also has some basic information on memorization, along with a host of other interesting topics.

Derren Brown did a magic trick where he gave people scary accurate statements of their personality.

Derren Brown uses a lot of misdirection, including making you believe that he's using psychological techniques when he's actually doing traditional magic tricks.

Derren Brown is a 'mentalist', that is he performs illusions under the guise of mental tricks, psychology, the power of the mind etc.