Mind, Culture & Visual Illusions: Dorsa Amir and Chaz Firestone on Visual Illusions
Added 2025-07-19 08:41:52 +0000 UTCMatt and Chris sit down to chat with Dorsa Amir and Chaz Firestone (@chazfirestone) about their recent paper 'Is Visual Perception WEIRD? The Müller-Lyer Illusion and the Cultural Byproduct Hypothesis.'
In a conversation that serves as a welcome tonic to the endless lamentations of the gurus about academic groupthink and closed-minded silos, Dorsa and Chaz discuss the interdisciplinary nature of their work, debates around universal vs. culturally specific psychology, and the strength of evidence that visual perception varies between cultures.
A fun one that might even leave you a little bit more optimistic than usual!
Links
Chaz's Perception & Mind Lab Homepage, his Instagram, and his BJJ victory video.
Decoding Academia 33: The Great Müller-Lyer Debate from Fish Tanks to Eye Operations
Mickey Inzlicht's Substack on the Paper and the Debates around it.
Comments
More of this type of content. Love!
Jeanine Marie
2025-08-03 18:12:51 +0000 UTC
