Field-independent subjects, on the

Field-independent subjects, on the other hand, following their characteristic style, determined the upright with reference to the direction of the force on the body rather than with reference to the prevailing visual field. In one experiment, where this force was displaced 40 from the true vertical, their judgment of the upright was off the objective upright by this amount. So in these circumstances, the judgment made by the field-independent person is “wrong”: it is the judgment of the field-dependent person that is “right”, though the judgment of each derives in a very understandable way from his particular mode of perceiving.