la question de l’interaction entre le lecteur et le personnage est cruciale en toute étude en littérature fictionnelle. pourtant, malgré l’intérêt que les chercheurs portent depuis longtemps à l’examen de cette relation, celle-ci n’a été que rarement l’objet d’une étude méthodique. c’est pour combler ce manque que vincent jouve propose sa théorisation sur « l’effet-personnage ». le modèle prése...

perspective, as proposed by us (Kingdom et al 2007a, 2007b), but a variant of the Jastrow illusion. Maniatis suggests that the Jastrow illusion is an example of simultaneous size contrast, and that the Leaning Tower illusion is the orientation analog of the Jastrow. In other words the Leaning Tower illusion is an example of simultaneous tilt (or orientation) contrast, or acute-angle expansion, ...

This paper examines the empirical analysis of the five main hypotheses subsumed under the generic term fiscal illusion. After placing these hypotheses within a common theoretical framework, the paper attempts to evaluate empirical research into the revenue-complexity hypothesis, the revenueelasticity hypothesis, the flypaper effect, renter illusion, and debt illusion.

Using a choice blindness paradigm, it is possible to switch decisions and outcomes in simple choice tasks. Such switches have been found to carry over into later choices, hypothesized to be mediated by beliefs about earlier decisions. Here we investigated participants’ memories for stimuli in a simple choice blindness task involving preferential choices between pairs of faces. We probed partici...

The Kanizsa illusion1 (Kanizsa, 1955), one of typical subtypes of the illusory contour, is a particularly intriguing phenomenon for considering the dynamics of our visual object perception (Fig.1). It has been stimulating interests of many researchers in this field for the last several decades. As Kanizsa (1955) originally discussed, this illusion is characterized by three distinct phenomenal p...

I ncreased expenditures and the government size is an important issue in public sector economics. In this regard, various theories have been developed in order to justify the reasons for the public expenditure growth, and the theories have been empirically tested. One of the outlooks explaining the government expenditures growth and the economy size, is fiscal illusion approach. According ...

Reasoning research suggests that people use more stringent criteria when they evaluate others' arguments than when they produce arguments themselves. To demonstrate this "selective laziness," we used a choice blindness manipulation. In two experiments, participants had to produce a series of arguments in response to reasoning problems, and they were then asked to evaluate other people's argumen...