wikipediabite: the Honi phenomenon

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_room

A type of selective perceptual distortion known as the Honi phenomenon causes some married persons to perceive less size distortion of the spouse than a stranger in an Ames room.

The effect was related to the strength of love, liking, and trust of the spouse being viewed. Women who were high positive in this area perceived strangers as being more distorted than their partners. Size judgements by men did not seem to be influenced by the strength of their feeling toward their spouse. (Dion & Dion, 1976)

(Dion & Dion, 1976)

Also, The Honi phenomenon does not exist, but I don't see what their abstract's successive sentences are doing together.

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I spent more time than I should have thinking about this today, only to come to the conclusion that some people get paid a lot of money to attempt to come up with interesting scientific explanations for things that are common sense.