Simple geometric shapes are implicitly associated with affective value

Affective Priming by Simple Geometric Shapes: Evidence from Event-related Brain Potentials

Previous work has demonstrated that simple geometric shapes may convey emotional meaning using various experimental paradigms. However, whether affective meaning of simple geometric shapes can be automatically activated and influence the evaluations of subsequent stimulus is still unclear. Thus the present study employed an affective priming paradigm to investigate whether and how two geometric...

Tifinagh Characters Recognition Using Simple Geometric Shapes

In this paper we present method of features extraction based on decomposition of the characters into several simple geometric shapes (segment, arc) by detecting the branch points and end points, as it explained follow a new methods are using to treated the obtained information in order to decide if the characters need to add more key points also in this step we extracte the type of the shapes (...

Implicit Essentialism: Genetic Concepts Are Implicitly Associated with Fate Concepts

Genetic essentialism is the tendency for people to think in more essentialist ways upon encountering genetic concepts. The current studies assessed whether genetic essentialist biases would also be evident at the automatic level. In two studies, using different versions of the Implicit Association Test, we found that participants were faster to categorize when genes and fate were linked, compar...

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Geometric Self-Assembly of Rigid Shapes: A Simple Voronoi Approach

Self-assembly of shapes from spheres to nonsmooth and possibly nonconvex shapes is pervasive throughout the sciences. These arrangements arise in biology for animal flocking and herding, in condensed matter physics with molecular and nano self-assembly, and in control theory for coordinated motion problems. While idealizing these often nonconvex objects as points or spheres aids in analysis, th...