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College students judged, from memory, the relative size of the sun at the horizon and at the zenith, the relative distance to the sun at each position, and the relative distance to the sky at each position. Two major types of Ss were identified. The more numerous type remembered the sun at the horizon as larger and closer than the zenith sun; the other remembered the sun at the horizon as larger and more distant than the zenith sun. For the more numerous type, the size and distance judgments were negatively correlated; for the other type they were positively correlated.
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King, W.L., Hayes, M.C. The sun illusion: Individual differences in remembered size and distance judgments. Psychon Sci 5, 65–66 (1966). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03328282
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