“Vain” isn’t a word normally associated with football players, but many wide receivers believe they look slim and fleet-footed with a lower number on their jersey rather than a higher one.
“Vain” isn't a word normally associated with football players, but many wide receivers believe they look slim and fleet-footed with a lower number on their jersey rather than a higher one.
A longtime NFL rule required wide receivers to wear uniform numbers between 80 and 89, but the league changed the restriction in 2004. Shams offered a psychological explanation for the phenomenon to ESPN in that report, but emphasized at the time that there was no scientific research on the topic.Shams specializes in the science of perception, and she returned to the question about jersey numbers when theShams and her research group devised an online study to test her suppositions about the popularity of lower numbers.
Because the number 8 is wider than 1, the researchers wanted to see whether the amount of jersey space occupied by numbers from 80 to 89 made players look huskier. It appears that when processing perception of body size, the brain leans on already established associations between numbers and size attributes, Shams said.
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