APPARENT WARMTH AND HEAVINESS OF COLOURS

Lightness, Heaviness and Gravity

Lightness, heaviness and gravity

Seeing Heaviness

Participants watched a recording of the motions produced when another person wielded a pendulum. The participants’ task was to judge the heaviness of the pendulum. We found that participants were similarly adept at judging the pendulum’s heaviness as when participants wield the pendulum themselves and perceive heaviness haptically. It is hypothesized that people are able to make these visual he...

Experiencing physical warmth promotes interpersonal warmth.

"Warmth" is the most powerful personality trait in social judgment, and attachment theorists have stressed the importance of warm physical contact with caregivers during infancy for healthy relationships in adulthood. Intriguingly, recent research in humans points to the involvement of the insula in the processing of both physical temperature and interpersonal warmth (trust) information. Accord...

Heaviness in Circle Rotations

We are concerned with describing the structure of the set of points in the unit interval which, when subjected to rotation by irrational α modulo one, for all finite portions of the orbit contain at least as many points in the bottom half of the interval as in the top half. Specifically, an inductive procedure for describing the set based on the continued fraction expansion of α is developed, l...