Researchers at The University of Western Australia have discovered that a psychological illusion could be making people think they are thinner than they actually are.
Dr. Jason Bell’s team from UWA’s School of Psychological Science worked collaboratively with the Pisa Vision group in Italy and found evidence that how we perceive our body is actually a distortion created by our blended past observations of ourselves and others.
This inherent bias is known as serial dependence and is an effect of our brain averaging information over time.
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