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SENSATION SCALES IN THE SIZE‐WEIGHT ILLUSION
Author(s) -
Sjöberg Lennart
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1969.tb00016.x
Subject(s) - illusion , sensation , psychology , scale (ratio) , sensation seeking , statistics , social psychology , mathematics , cognitive psychology , physics , personality , quantum mechanics
S joberg , L. Sensation scales in the size‐weight illusion. Scand. J. Psychol ., 1969, 10 , 109–112.‐The subjects gave magnitude estimations of heaviness of a set of cylinders varying simultaneously in weight and height. The size‐weight illusion could be well described by a simple model assuming heaviness to be inversely proportional to a sensation scale of size and directly proportional to a sensation scale of weight. The scale parameters corresponding to weight were a positively accelerated function of weight while the corresponding function for size was negatively accelerated.