Method for psychological status estimation by gaze location monitoring using Eye-Based Human-Computer Interaction: EBHCI is proposed. Through the experiment with English book reading of e-learning content, relation between psychological status and the distance between the correct location of English sentence reading points and the corresponding location derived from EBHCI is clarified. Psych9ol...

Through a large-scale field study of 166,215 online restaurant reviews, we found evidence of a distance boosting effect, whereby experiencing spatial distance (i.e., authoring a review about a geographically distant restaurant, rather than proximate one) and temporal distance (i.e., authoring a review after a lengthy delay, rather than immediately) jointly affect review positivity by amplifying...

It has been argued by Shepard that there is a robust psychological law that relates the distance between a pair of items in psychological space and the probability that they will be confused with each other. Specifically, the probability of confusion is a negative exponential function of the distance between the pair of items. In experimental contexts, distance is typically defined in terms of ...

Abstract Why do certain moral violations elicit amusement while others not? According to McGraw and Warren’s (2010) benign-violation theory of humor, for a situation it should involve benign violation. Furthermore, the greater psychological distance from situation, will elicit. We tested this by recording spontaneous facial expressions collecting self-ratings in response classic scenarios purit...

This paper argues that LOS is a reflection of the distance between tourist's origin and destination country. Past interpretations have been based solely on spatial parameters. study moves beyond physical instead considers psychological distance, multilayered construct. In this view, countries may be ‘‘distant’’ from one another in various ways; economic, social, cultural, religious, political d...