Guns Can Make You Look Two Inches Taller

     Dr. Daniel Fessler and a team from UCLA published what they found in the journal Public Library of Science. Then they conducted an experiment to see if the perceptions of size depended on what they were holding. Dr. Fessler had 628 volunteers to see if they looked bigger with guns. To test this, the people held many tools, and the hands almost identical. They held a handgun, drill, a calking gun, and and a handsaw. The people that held a handgun were slightly bigger that those that held other tools. This proves that people can be slightly taller when holding a gun.