The 1966 book 'The Influence of Culture on Visual Perception' reported that people from some cultures were completely unaffected by certain visual illusions that affected U.S. college students.
Sources
- Are your findings 'WEIRD'? - American Psychological Association (apa.org)
- https://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~henrich/pdfs/WeirdPeople.pdf (www2.psych.ubc.ca)
- https://cspeech.ucd.ie/Fred/docs/weird.pdf (cspeech.ucd.ie)
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