The Gorilla Guys

From the psychologists who created the "invisible gorilla" experiment, a blog about how cognitive illusions and mistaken intuitions affect all of us, every day, whether we know it or not. 

Vision Sciences Stuff -- the skinny on a new illusion

Want to look skinny? It helps to be tall.

This week I'm attending the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society in Naples Florida. Every day or so, on The Invisible Gorilla, I'll post about some of the cool, interesting, funny, or quirky (I won't say which) talks/posters I happened to catch.  I've just written about a new size illusion presented by my colleague Diane Beck and her collaborators:

"Why women wear heels: A new size illusion?" by Diane Beck, Barbara Emanuele, and Silvia Savazzi. 

 

Here's an example of the illusion from their poster.  Which body below looks skinnier?

example of skinniness illusion

Which body looks skinnier?

 

Find out the answer and read more about the study here.

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Daniel Simons is a professor at the University of Illinois and co-author of The Invisible Gorilla, and Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us.

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