To examine 9-year trends and relationships regarding misperceptions of body size and dieting for weight loss among adolescents from 24 countries, and explore the influence of country-level overweight ...

Whether a product is described as small, medium or large affects consumer perception of portion sizes and could lead to “guiltless gluttony”, according to a new study. There is some confusion around ...

Neuroscientists from Western University have taken the all-important first step towards understanding the neural basis of size constancy or the ability to see an object as having the same size despite ...

Researchers have assessed the human perception of the size and weight of body parts, specifically the hand, comparing it to the perception of objects and concluded that it is different. In the case of ...

Golfers who play well are more likely to see the hole as larger than their poor-playing counterparts, according to a Purdue University researcher. "Golfers have said that when they play well the hole ...

“Do we see what we feel?” A new study in Cognition & Emotion finds that people who fear spiders tend to overestimate their size, while spider experts are more accurate in their assessments. Fear can ...