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Nicholls et al. (2018) had participants estimate the age of the my wife/mother-in-law ambiguous figure and found that older participants reported higher ages than young participants. They suggest that this is the result of a subconscious social group bias: participants would have a bias toward processing faces of similar age. That is, older participants would be more likely to the perceive the ambiguous figure as an old lady, while younger participants would be more likely to perceive the ambiguous figure as a young lady. This bachelor thesis project is concerned with the question of whether the observed difference in age estimation can alternatively be attributed to an anchor effect: participants could use their own age as a yard stick to determine the figure’s age, regardless of whether the young or old lady is perceived. Nicholls, M. E. R., Churches, O., & Loetscher, T. (2018). Perception of an ambiguous figure is affected by own-age social biases. *Scientific Reports, 8*(1), 12661. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-31129-7
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