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Developmental Influences on Geometric Illusion Susceptibility among Hong Kong Chinese Children

University of Hong Kong

Brian M. Young

University of Hong Kong

Peter P. C. Choi

Department of Social Welfare (Hong Kong)

Hong Kong Chinese developmental results are presented to test cross-cultural developmental theories relating to changes in illusion susceptibility with age. The Muller-Lyer (M-L) and Sander-Parallelogram (S-P) illusion data confirm the expected decrease with age from 3-12 (Walter, 1942), and the later increase to age 21 due to exposure to a more sophisticated environment (Wapner and Werner, 1957). The data also supported Piaget and Morf's (1956) developmental hypotheses regarding contiguous and noncontiguous versions of the Horizontal-Vertical (H-V) illustions. The United States, Hong Kong, and Arunta cross-cultural comparisons also support the "carpentered world hypothesis," while H-V illusion susceptibility was also related to ecologically valid desert/urban differences in habits of perceptual inference. However, intersample differences in retinal pigmentation and the cross-sectional nature of the study may have influenced the results.

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 4, No. 1, 49-74 (1973)
DOI: 10.1177/002202217300400105


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