Global-local visual processing impacts risk taking behaviors, but only at first

Global-local visual processing impacts risk taking behaviors, but only at first

We investigated the impact of early visual processing on decision-making during unpredictable, risky situations. Participants undertook Navon's (1977) task and attended to either global letters or local letters only, following which they completed the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART). It was observed that global-focused individuals made more balloon pumps during the BART (i.e., took more risk)...

Local Religious Beliefs and Organizational Risk-Taking Behaviors*

We study two distinct effects of local religions on organizational risk-taking: religious beliefs share a common aversion to pure risk but have diverging attitudes toward speculative risk. As predicted, we find that mutual fund managers’ speculative risk-taking behaviors vary with specific local religious beliefs – funds in low-Protestant (or high-Catholic) areas have higher return volatilities...

Global and Local Attention Processing in Depressed Mood

Background: Attention impairments are the hallmark feature of subclinical depression. The present study used Navon task to compare the allocation of attention to the local and global stimuli in depressed and nondepressed participants. Method: The primary sample included 186 female high school students from Shiraz city who were selected using cluster sampl...

Running head: ANXIETY SENSITIVTY AND RISK-TAKING BEHAVIORS Dowd 1 Anxiety Sensitivity and Risk-Taking Behaviors

Global processing takes time: A meta-analysis on local-global visual processing in ASD.

What does an individual with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) perceive first: the forest or the trees? In spite of 30 years of research and influential theories like the weak central coherence (WCC) theory and the enhanced perceptual functioning (EPF) account, the interplay of local and global visual processing in ASD remains only partly understood. Research findings vary in indicating a local pr...