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Footballers wearing jerseys featuring small numbers are rated as more slender than those wearing big numbers, in experiments indicating how visual perception may be influenced by cognition


Peer-Reviewed Publication

PLOS

Big number, big body: Jersey numbers alter body size perception 

IMAGE: TWO FOOTBALL PLAYERS, ONE (LEFT) WITH A LOW JERSEY NUMBER, AND ONE (RIGHT) WITH A LARGE JERSEY NUMBER. view more 

CREDIT: SHAMS ET AL., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (HTTPS://CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG/LICENSES/BY/4.0/)




Footballers wearing jerseys featuring small numbers are rated as more slender than those wearing big numbers, in experiments indicating how visual perception may be influenced by cognition

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287474

Article Title: Big number, big body: Jersey numbers alter body size perception

Author Countries: USA

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.

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