{"id":1621,"date":"2003-10-22T20:03:24","date_gmt":"2003-10-23T00:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/10\/22\/champaign-study-shapes-up\/"},"modified":"2003-10-22T20:03:24","modified_gmt":"2003-10-23T00:03:24","slug":"champaign-study-shapes-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/22\/champaign-study-shapes-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Champaign Study Shapes Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1555'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/biglass.jpg\" width=\"253\" height=\"241\" align=\"left\">Champaign,<br \/>\n        Ill. &#8212; Your eyes play tricks. And your brain makes it worse. Both teenagers<br \/>\n        and adults misjudge how much they pour into glasses. They will pour more<br \/>\n        into short wide glasses than into tall slender glasses, but perceive<br \/>\n        the opposite to be true. The delusion of shape even influences experienced<br \/>\n        bartenders, though to a lesser degree, a researcher at the University<br \/>\n        of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has found.<\/p>\n<p>      How shape can alter a person&#8217;s notion of size has been widely investigated.<br \/>\n      For instance, triangles are generally perceived to be larger than squares,<br \/>\n      and horizontal shapes are seen as smaller than vertical objects of identical<br \/>\n      volume. The results of his study will be published in the December issue<br \/>\n      of the Journal of Consumer Research.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2003-10\/uoia-sob102203.php\">from<br \/>\n    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign via EurekaAlert<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Champaign, Ill. &#8212; Your eyes play tricks. And your brain makes it worse. Both teenagers and adults misjudge how much they pour into glasses. They will pour more into short wide glasses than into tall slender glasses, but perceive the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/22\/champaign-study-shapes-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}