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The latest offering of this illusion on the web (/ohpx9al) has celebrities turning into extremely ugly monsters before your very eyes! It is known as the flashed face effect (Tangen et al., 2011), and it’s quite astounding when you see it. If a person has a large forehead it becomes even larger, a small chin gets smaller, noses that are slightly bent become even more bent and crooked, the faces all becoming caricatures of themselves. They found that pairs of faces flashed at around four to five a second caused the observer to see the faces morph into grotesque images. One of the most bizarre demonstrations of our brain’s disposition to see fiendish creatures was discovered by researchers at the University of Queensland.
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Research during the last few years, and particularly from the fields of perception and anomalistic and developmental psychology, suggests that we actually seem to be wired to see monsters. Big, scary, and often even extremely ugly, it’s possible we may use the monster in all its forms as a means to crystallise our fears.
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There’s clearly historical precedent that some form of cognitive externalisation of this type is the case – from the monstrous Grendel of the ancient Beowulf epic to the terrifying creatures depicted in our modern-day fantasies (Asma, 2009), or the enormous shape-changing metallic aliens of the successful Transformers movie franchise. Could it be that the bigger the threat, the bigger the monsters we create? We’re potentially under threat these days – or so we’re told – to a far greater extent than ever before, whether it’s from global warming, solar flares, nuclear devastation caused by a rogue regime, or any other large-scale catastrophe. Largely these centre on an existential event that might well affect all of us in some terrible way. For evolution to accomplish the same thing would take millennia.įor a psychologist it’s fascinating to consider explanations for the popularity and increasing scale of such beasts. The creature started out much smaller, at around 50 metres in 1954 (see /pr368qb).
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At 150 metres this latest incarnation of the prehistoric sea monster was approximately 40 per cent the height of New York’s Empire State Building. Monsters loom large in our consciousness and literally too when you consider the recent Godzilla movie.
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We tell each other stories, share them online, watch scary movies and TV programmes. Love them or hate them, monsters keep coming back to frighten us.