Etymology

Mooney face test

Today it means: A test of a person's ability to form coherent mental pictures with very little visual information, involving identifying the features in simplified two-tone pictures of faces and distinguishing real faces from false ones. Full definition →

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The story

Developed by Craig M. Mooney, whose results were published in 1957.

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