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 ...

When it comes to men, size does matter. Neck size, that is. A new study published in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology found the perception of how nurturing or protective a man is toward his ...

Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 37, No. 6 (April 2011), pp. 1095-1112 (18 pages) Size labels adopted by food vendors can have a major impact on size judgments and consumption. In forming size ...

Our perception of how large or small things are in the world is systematically influenced for how we perceive distance or depth. This is most famously shown by the Ponzo Illusion (discovered by Mario ...

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 ...

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 ...

Consumers are willing to pay for food portion sizes based on their label, even when both offer the same quantity. Researchers from Cornell University tested size perception among consumers by ...

This news release is available in Japanese. A group of researchers at Osaka University found that neurons in the monkey visual cortical area V4*1, one of the areas in the visual cortex, calculate the ...

A study finds that bees display an awareness of their own body size and shape as they navigate obstacles during flight. Vertebrates account for their body size while navigating obstacles as they move, ...