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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PLoS ONE
Article Title
Big number, big body: Jersey numbers alter body size perception
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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.