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Document Type
Book Chapter
Date of this Version
1979
Publication Source
Cross-Cutural Contributions to Psychology: Selected Papers from the Fourth International Conference of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Start Page
40
Last Page
44
ISBN
9026503008
Abstract
Individual and group differences in susceptibility to various visual illusions have interested psychologists at least since Binet (1895). At present, there appear to be at least two more-or-less competing explanations of the ontogeny of illusion suscpetibility: Piaget's (1969) "Law of Relative Centrations" and Segall, Campell and Herskovits' 91966) "Carpentered World" hypothesis. While these theories sometimes produce similar predications, they may also lead to contradictory ones.
Copyright/Permission Statement
Originally published in Cross-Cultural Contributions to Psychology: Selected Papers from the Fourth International Conference of the International Association for Cross-Culural Psychology by Swwets and Zeitlinger B.V. © 1979. Since then, the publisher has ceased.
Recommended Citation
Wagner, D.A. and Heald, K. (1979). "Carpentered World" Hypothesis vs. Piaget: Revisiting the Illusions of Segall, Campbell and Herskovits." In Eckensberger, L., Lonner, W., and Poortinga, Y.H. (Eds.), Cross-Cultural Contributions to Psychology: Selected Papers from the Fourth International Conference of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, 40-44. The Netherlands, Swets and Zeitlinger.
Date Posted: 24 April 2018