Attention and Distortion (09-06-11)
In an upcoming article in Psychological Science, Brandon Liverence and Brian Scholl (both from Yale) provide additional evidence that we don’t always “see” the world accurately.
In an upcoming article in Psychological Science, Brandon Liverence and Brian Scholl (both from Yale) provide additional evidence that we don’t always “see” the world accurately.
Whether we feel powerless or not influences how vigilant we are about our social environment, but what about our physical one?
Here’s something to ponder the next time you hear that an environment is too noisy.
Trips back from destinations generally seem shorter than trips to them.
Kuhbandner and his colleagues have collected additional evidence that emotional state, which can be influenced by design decisions, can influence sensory information stored in memory.
Cheema and Bagchi recently published research confirming the value of visually displaying information related to goal achievement.
Wargo reports on the “Inner Experience: It’s Not What You Think” presentation by Christopher Heavey (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) and Russell Herbert at the 2011 meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.
After a rigorous investigation, Pearce and Dunbar have determined that humans in various geographic locations have evolved visual systems that differ in size.
Some people are better at recognizing places than other people.
Warthen and his colleagues have investigated the relationship between learned fear and light levels in mice and their extrapolations from this research to humans are consistent with previous environmental psychology research.