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 ...

Neuroscientists from Western University have taken the all-important first step towards understanding the neural basis of size constancy or the ability to see an object as having the same size despite ...

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 ...

Golfers who play well are more likely to see the hole as larger than their poor-playing counterparts, according to a Purdue University researcher. "Golfers have said that when they play well the hole ...

NFL players have more freedom to select jersey numbers than ever before. However, if their figure is a factor in their jersey decision, they may want to look for a lower number. A new UCLA study ...

“Do we see what we feel?” A new study in Cognition & Emotion finds that people who fear spiders tend to overestimate their size, while spider experts are more accurate in their assessments. Fear can ...

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 ...