Category Archives: Fun Facts And Optical Illusions

Contains fun and interesting facts about psychology as well as literal optical illusions, physiological illusions, cognitive illusions

The Thatcher Illusion

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Look carefully…there’s something pretty special about the images above. What’s so great about four upside-down faces you ask? See for yourself. Below we have the same images when positioned right-side-up: Continue reading

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The Ames Room Illusion

In an Ames room, world renowned psychologist Philip Zimbardo can grow and shrink right before your very eyes! How does he do it? It’s not magic, nor is it a result of computer animation. On the contrary, what you see is all a matter of perception. Watch the video above for a full explanation.

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A Letters and Numbers Challenge

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Instructions: Count the number of F’s in the following sentence. Count them ONLY ONCE. Do not go back and count them again:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.

How many F’s did you get? For the correct answer and an explanation please scroll down. Continue reading

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The Flashed Face Distortion Effect – Pretty Girls Turn Ugly

Like most fascinating phenomena, the flashed face distortion effect was discovered completely by accident. Honors student Sean Murphy had eye-aligned pictures of faces in the University of Queensland psychology lab and was playing around with them when he first noticed the grotesque faces staring back at him. When he looked at the faces individually however, they appeared normal and some were even attractive. Continue reading

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