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20952791

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-10-18
pubmed:abstractText
The toilet of Venus is the subject of many paintings. Typically, Venus appears with a small mirror in which her face is visible. Observers tend to say that Venus is admiring herself in a mirror, even when the location of the mirror makes this impossible. We demonstrate that the Venus effect is not specific to paintings by showing that it occurs in real life (Experiment 1) and in photographs (Experiments 1-4). The original description of the effect implied that observers describe Venus as seeing in a mirror what they (the observers) see. We used different photographs to compare the responses when the person in front of the mirror could or could not see him or herself and when the image of his or her face was or was not visible to the observer. Observers tend to state that a person can see his or her own reflection when he or she appears near a mirror, whether or not his or her face is visible in the mirror. A task based on a top-down view of a room confirmed that people lack sensitivity to the role of the viewpoint (Experiment 5). We discuss these findings in relation to other evidence of difficulty in understanding what is visible in a mirror.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1943-393X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
72
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1948-64
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
The Venus effect in real life and in photographs.
pubmed:affiliation
School of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England. m.bertamini@liverpool.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article