Perceived
Size and Distance of Persons in Natural Outdoor Settings: The Effects
of Familiar Size
A. Higashiyama, S. Kitano |
Two
experiments investigated the effects of familiar size on size and
distance estimates in natural outdoor settings. In Experiment 1,
the subjects compared perceived size and distance of a normal-sized,
undersized, or oversized photographic model of a woman with those
of the unfamiliar board of the same size as the model. In Experiment
2, the subjects reported perceived size and distance of a real woman
and an unfamiliar board at a viewing distance of 40, 80, or 160 m.
The obtained main results were: (1) The size estimates of off-sized
models partially approached the normal size, (2) the size estimates
of a real woman were constant over the range of distance (size constancy),
whereas the size estimates of an unfamiliar board increased with
increasing distance (over-constancy), and (3) the undersized and
normal-sized model were judged farther than the corresponding boards,
but the oversized model was judged at the same distance as the board.
These results were compared with the predictions from the size-distance
invariance hypothesis and the off sized perception hypothesis.
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