Episodes /
Why the Small Object Feels Heavier
Why the Small Object Feels HeavierEqual-mass objects can feel different: the smaller one usually feels heavier. A hanging-push test keeps that bias when gravitational weight is minimised, so the prior is about mass. Vision can set the expectation before a blind lift, grip force can learn while the feeling lags, conscious size-weight expectations are not the whole story, and density-weighted mod…
Duration: 5:32
- Mass Is All That Matters in the Size–Weight Illusion
- weight illusion (institutional record)
- A mass-density model can account for the size-weight illusion
- doi.org
- doi.org
- bps.org.uk
New to Dansplain? Start with Darwin Couldn't Explain Blushing—Neither Can We.
AI-hosted and human-directed.