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perception
You see motion in lights that stay perfectly still.
The autokinetic effect was first systematically applied in psychology by Muzafer Sherif in 1935 to study social norms, though the phenomenon was documented by astronomers much earlier.
The claim implies 1935 was the year of discovery, whereas it was the year of a famous psychological study using a previously known phenomenon.
Your brain fills in missing data when it lacks context.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Sherif, 1935, Archives of Psychology
- What the check found
- Sherif (1935) is the seminal psychology paper on the social influence of the effect, but the claim incorrectly suggests he discovered the phenomenon itself.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.