I have never seen this done as a video before….
I think it works really well. What do you think? Did you spot it before the spin?
I have never seen this done as a video before….
I think it works really well. What do you think? Did you spot it before the spin?
Richard Wiseman 
I noticed it immediately, but I might not have if I wasn’t looking for it. Since you mentioned a spin in the video that gives away the illusion, it was pretty easy to spot.
Agreed. Telling people it’s an OLD ILLUSION that one might spot BEFORE THE SPIN is a sort of a big hint…
Also naming it The Thatcher Effect left me in no doubt as to what to expect.
Cool – didnt see it coming.
Rather odd to see a person’s eyebrows in the middle of their face. 😛
Seen it before, so I knew it was there, but I’ve never seen it as a video.
I kinda caught it with the eyes, but not the mouth. I think the eyes were peculiar in that way; distracting.
I saw something was wrong but couldnt detect it
Just seen it (though static) on QI, so the upside down face meant I looked for it straight away 😉
It was very well done, and worked really well as a video
Cool! Bu dude….don’t give it away, like with the spin- comment 🙂
Saw it with the eye brows too – but as has been mentioned, had been primed to spot something more than the mouth.
I wonder if it would work if seen slightly more to the side, and ear was flipped?
Ewww – I shouldn’t have watched that whilst eating breakfast – feel slightly sick! Just spotted the mouth, again, mainly cos the description warned me about the spin
i recognized the mouth right away; was proud of myself and stopped at that. Whoa… didn’t even notice the nose level eyebrows….
I noticed the eyes (blinking gave it away) but not the eyebrows or the mouth until afterwards!
Yay! I guessed it without even watching the vid! Calling it ‘The Thatcher Effect’ was the giveaway
I noticed the eyes immediately (well, the video’s title is a bit of a giveaway!), but I didn’t spot the mouth until the spin.
Watching a second time, both are really obvious.
I suppose the effect works because we’re primed to expect the eyes / mouth to be the right way up, so don’t tend to notice when combined with the rest of the face being upside down. Obviously, look at it the other way round, with the eyes/mouth upside down but the rest of the face the right way up, and the effect is immediately noticeable.
The mouth was very obvious for me, because I tend to look at the lips of a person when he/she is speaking. Spotted the eyebrows, and then the eye lashes, and knew it!
Even though I could spot the difference, it is very interesting how normal the face looks upside down. good video
That’s pretty clever.
I was messing around with something similar a while ago using upside down features and then spinning the face around.
http://www.johnbraine.com/playground/upsy-downy/
spotted the eyes/eyebrows as soon as the video loaded, didn’t catch the mouth.
i have ever seen in this book
Allan Phase : The difinitive book of body language
but it’s only picture too ^ ^”
acctually, is that mean people always recognize+interpret other’s emotion from eyes and mouth
I noticed the mouth and then was so please I had spotted it that I stopped looking, and missed the eyes.
I spotted the eyes but did not spot the mouth. Still pretty cool!
The illusion is one of my favourite so I knew it well. I never saw it in video, very nice find!
Damn, you catch me all the Time !
Make following experiment: One Person lay down on the Floor. The other person stand on the head side, watching to the face, upside down. When the lying person is moving his face or speaking, it will appear very weird. Especially if you try to find a normal rightup face ON the turned face. (Normal you start with the eyes, then search a mouth on a fold in the forehead). This effect will not be appear on a Photography, of coarse.
Amazing. I was completely taken in. Didn’t notice anything unusual about it.
Just the mouth. Not the eyebrows. But that may have been because of your book Quirkology
Thanx Man 🙂
theres no point wasting your dough on facelifts girls with tips like the above
Spotted the eyes first, only the mouth after, what is odd though, is when she is upside down, and eyes/mouth wrong way up she looks more attractive than when she is normal, and with her mouth and eyes right way up.
https://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/another-amazing-illusion/
Yeah I spotted it…can’t forget the cover of your book Dr. Wiseman.
saw it, I think from experience of having seen altered faces before.
This was on QI at some point a while back.
I noticed to eyes and eyebrows but didn’t notice the mouth until the spin, the mind is amazing in it’s adaptability. (or is that gullability!)
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