The present paper describes judged attraction (forces) between objects, which, in my experiments, are parallel bars, approximately 17 cm. long and 8 mm. wide, placed in the middle of a black surface measuring 50 cm. × 50 cm. The maximum attraction between the bars was most frequently judged to occur when the distance between the bars was approximately 4 cm. When the distance between the bars grew smaller than 4 cm. judged attraction continued for a large majority of Ss until the bars lay close together. The range of judged attraction ended for most at 20 cm. but not for all.
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