- Hot reading
Hot reading is the use of foreknowledge when giving a "
psychic " reading instage magic performances.The reader can gain information about the sitter (person getting the reading) through a variety of means, such as research or overhearing a conversation. Hot reading is commonly used in conjunction with
cold reading (where no foreknowledge is available) and can explain how a psychic reader can get a specific claimed "hit" of accurate information.cite web | title="Hot Reading" | url=http://www.skepdic.com/hotreading.html | publisher=The Skeptic's Dictionary |author= Robert Tod Carroll | accessdate=2006-06-14]This technique is suspected by many in the skeptic community as being used by some television psychics in conjunction with
cold reading . cite web | title="Cold Reading: Confessions of a 'Psychic'" | url=http://www.skepticreport.com/psychicpowers/confessions.htm | publisher=Skeptic Report | author=Colin Hunter | accessdate=2007-10-18 ] The psychics may have clients schedule their appearance ahead of time, and then send collaborators to people's homes to collect information while posing as religious missionaries, magazine sales people, or the like. [" [http://www.reall.org/newsletter/v11/n05/psychic-secrets.html Secrets of Psychics Revealed] ",NBC (2003)] Such visitors can gain a wide understanding of a person from examining their home. The "psychic" may then be briefed on the information and where the person will sit in the audience. [Stagnaro, Angelo. "Something from Nothing". Manipulix Books. 2004.]A 2001 "Time" article reported that psychic
John Edward allegedly utilized hot reading on his television show, "Crossing Over".cite web | title="Talking to the Dead" | url=http://www.time.com/time/columnist/jaroff/article/0,9565,100555,00.html | publisher=Time Magazine |author= Leon Jaroff | accessdate=2006-06-14] In another incident, Edward was alleged to have used foreknowledge to hot read in an interview on the television show "Dateline".cite web | title="John Edward: Hustling the Bereaved"| url=http://www.csicop.org/si/2001-11/i-files.html | publisher=CSICOP |author=Joe Nickell | accessdate=2006-06-14] John Edward has denied ever using foreknowledge, cold or hot reading. [cite book | last = Edward | first = John | year = 2001 | title = Crossing Over | publisher = Jodere Group| id = ISBN 1-58872-002-0]References
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Mentalism
*Cold reading
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