UCLA study:
- Football players sometimes choose jerseys with lower numbers thinking that they’ll look slimmer and faster. There’s a scientific basis for that belief, according to a new UCLA study.
- In two experiments, volunteers consistently said that images of players in jerseys numbered 10 to 19 looked thinner than players in jerseys numbered 80 to 89, even when the bodies were the same size.
- The finding suggests that people’s previously learned associations between numbers and sizes influence their perceptions of body size.
