In a 2018 experiment, researchers investigated how linguistic framing influences visual estimation. Participants watched a high-definition video of a drone colliding with a stationary target. One group of participants was asked, "How fast was the drone travelling when it smashed into the target?" while another group was asked, "How fast was the drone travelling when it contacted the target?" The group asked with the verb "smashed" gave significantly higher speed estimates and was more likely to falsely recall seeing debris in the video.
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