The Mueller-Lyer illusion is explained on the basis of the central tendency effect which refers to errors of overestimation and underestimation that occur whenever repeated judgments of a series of stimuli are made. It was noted that the theory could be extended to explain some, but not all, other types of geometrical illusions.
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Alexander W. Pressey (1967) studied this question.
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