Culture and Perception (01-21-10)
Ambady and Bharucha review recent research on how culture influences mental activity.
Ambady and Bharucha review recent research on how culture influences mental activity.
For some time, psychologists have recognized differences in the ways that people raised in Western cultures and Eastern cultures perceive visual information.
Social and demographic trends in the United States are influencing color preferences in the population.
Nonverbal messages may not be clear to all observers, especially when different cultures are involved.
Whether an arrowhead points to the left or to the right determines the sort of emotional response it generates in viewers.
David Brax, who is completing his dissertation at Lund University in Sweden, has integrated information from the cognitive sciences, neuroscience, and psychology to better understand what is valued.
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have found the area in the human brain responsible for our sense of personal space (how far we prefer to stand/sit from other people).
People in American and Japanese cultures have different associations to happiness.
Sherman and Clore have investigated the longstanding associations in Western cultures to black (linked to negative aspects of the world, such as evil) and white (associated with positive aspects of the world, such as purity).
Think the language you are speaking doesn’t influence how you perceive space? Think again.