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Where people look when watching movies: Do all viewers look at the same place?

Magnification around the most important point of a movie scene (center of interest-COI) might aid people with visual impairments that cause resolution loss. This will be effective only if most people look at the same place when watching a movie. We recorded the eye movements of 20 normally sighted subjects as each watched six movie clips, totaling 37.5 min. More than half of the time the distri...

Why Do People Enjoy Watching Natural Disasters and Human Violence on Television? A Reversal Theory Perspective

We explored the psychological links that may exist between people’s choices of television program, conversation topics around the content of these programs, and people’s perceived degree of threat associated with these programs. The theoretical framework of the study was reversal theory (Apter, 2001). Participants were presented with a series of questionnaires assessing the degree of threat ass...

People watching: The perception of the relative body proportions of the self and others.

We have an abundance of perceptual information from multiple modalities specifying our body proportions. Consequently, it seems reasonable for researchers to assume that we have an accurate perception of our body proportions. In contrast to this intuition, recent research has shown large, striking distortions in people's perceptions of the relative proportions of their own bodies. Specifically,...