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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERCEIVED SIZE AND PERCEIVED DISTANCE *
Author(s) -
RUMP E. E.
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1961.tb00773.x
Subject(s) - psychology , stimulus (psychology) , social psychology , perception , cognitive psychology , apparent size , linear relationship , subjective constancy , statistics , mathematics , neuroscience
Two experiments are described in which subjects judged both the real size and the distance of objects viewed under reduced‐cue conditions. The results provide further evidence that perceived size and perceived distance are not necessarily related in the positive linear manner that the Invariance Hypothesis predicts, and that therefore the predictive value of this hypothesis is limited. However, some aspects of the results of the first experiment do conform to its predictions. The results also show that the direction of the size‐distance relationship for successive judgements by individual observers may be affected by their assumptions concerning the relationship, and concerning the nature of the stimulus‐object, when stimulus‐cues are reduced.