This image of the old woman and the girl is a well-known optical illusion: what you see depends on your age
It is one of the most famous optical illusions and now after having made us have countless arguments with those who did not see one or the other image and after having made us roll our eyes, it reveals to us that everything depends on ours age. This is the image called ‘My wife and my mother-in-law’ in which both the profile of a young girl and that of an old woman.
What do you see first? the profile of a girl or an elderly woman? The slightly turned girl whose profile and jaw can be seen or the old woman with a noticeable jerk in profile? Now that you’ve seen one can’t you see the other? Do you only see one? We give you some suggestion.
Look carefully: the old woman’s nose is the girl’s jaw, the lady’s left eye is the young woman’s nose and the woman’s mouth is the young lady’s necklace. And again the old woman’s chin is the girl’s chest. However, they have the same hair: we see the girl from behind, the old woman the bangs.
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What does it mean if you see the girl or the old woman
This optical illusion has depopulated on the net and then ended up in the hands of two professors of psychology who wondered why some see the young woman and others the old woman. So they conducted a study looking for some kind of relationship between those who claim to see the young lady first and those who see the old woman first.
The studio which took place in Australia involved 393 participants aged between 18 and 70 years. He was shown the photo for only half a second and asked to indicate the gender and age of the person portrayed in the image. Well it has been noted that the older people saw the old woman first, while the group composed of the younger ones saw the girl first.
Therefore, what was supported by the thesis underlying the study was confirmed, namely that age prejudices influence the initial interpretation of an image at a subconscious level. In other words, older people project themselves into a world populated by elderly people and this affects the interpretation of what they see, an operation opposite to what young people do.
The study found that while the 18-30 group always saw the girl first, the middle group was less compact. A sign that, beyond the age, it also affects perceived age. So put yourself to the test!
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