Correcting a Misperception

Hypotheses on Misperception

Misperception, Communication and Diversity

It is commonly agreed upon that misperception is detrimental. However, misperception might have a beneficial effect from a collective viewpoint when individuals mispercept incoming information that promotes a specific kind of behavior, which leads to an increase in diversity. First, this paper proposes our hypothesis regarding adaptive property of misperception based on the argument of the rela...

Introduction: politics, misperception, or apropos?

Body size misperception: a novel determinant in the obesity epidemic.

T he prevalence of obesity in the United States continues to rise and contributes to the incidence of cardiovascular disease. One obstacle to effecting weight loss and a potential target for intervention is misperception of body size. Among obese individuals (body mass index [BMI] 30 [calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared]), body size misperception is defined as ...

Word Perception and Misperception in Context

When reading lists of words and nonwords at 100 ms/word, Ss reported words accurately but frequently converted nonwords such as dack into similarly spelled words such as duck or deck. In sentences, both nonwords and anomalous words were misread as appropriate words, but the bias was greater for nonwords. Word associations in lists (e.g., sailor-dack-vessel) produced a similar bias, but when sen...