Lateral bias in theatre-seat choice

Harms, Victoria; Reese, Miriam; Elias, Lorin

doi:10.1080/1357650x.2012.746349

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“…A second study found the same results using a similar procedure (Weyers, Milnik, Muller, & Pauli, 2006). The findings of both these studies have been replicated in a very recent study which investigated the real-world seating patterns of theatre patrons during actual film screenings and reported a significant bias to choose seats on the right side of the theatre (Harms, Reese, & Elias, 2014). …”

Section: Directionality Bias In Turning or Rotational Behaviormentioning

confidence: 66%

Anticlockwise or clockwise? A dynamic Perception-Action-Laterality model for directionality bias in visuospatial functioning

Karim

Proulx

Likova

2016

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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Reviewing the relevant literature in visual psychophysics and visual neuroscience we propose a three-stage model of directionality bias in visuospatial functioning. We call this model the ‘Perception-Action-Laterality’ (PAL) hypothesis. We analyzed the research findings for a wide range of visuospatial tasks, showing that there are two major directionality trends: clockwise versus anticlockwise. It appears these preferences are combinatorial, such that a majority of people fall in the first category demonstrating a preference for stimuli/objects arranged from left-to-right rather than from right-to-left, while people in the second category show an opposite trend. These perceptual biases can guide sensorimotor integration and action, creating two corresponding turner groups in the population. In support of PAL, we propose another model explaining the origins of the biases– how the neurogenetic factors and the cultural factors interact in a biased competition framework to determine the direction and extent of biases. This dynamic model can explain not only the two major categories of biases, but also the unbiased, unreliably biased or mildly biased cases in visuosptial functioning.

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Section: Directionality Bias In Turning or Rotational Behaviormentioning

confidence: 66%

Anticlockwise or clockwise? A dynamic Perception-Action-Laterality model for directionality bias in visuospatial functioning

Karim

Proulx

Likova

2016

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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“…Such asymmetries with a bias towards the right side were shown on a number of behaviors, including the higher probability of turning to the right when kissing (Barrett, Greenwood, & McCullagh, 2006), the tendency to turn right in a T-maze (Scharine and McBeath, 2002), and others. An example of the lateral bias that is most relevant to our case, because it also depicts bias in choice from the display, is a tendency to choose theatre seats from the right side of the seating chart (Karev, 2000), which was confirmed by actual seating behavior (Harms, Reese, and Elias, 2014). We consider the possibility of the lateral bias interpretation due to the fact that green-yellow, red, violet, and blue-violet spectra that represent hue biases across all stimuli were situated on the right side of the HSV color wheel used in the study.…”

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confidence: 93%

Cross-Modal Associations between Color and Haptics

Slobodenyuk

Jraissati

Kanso

et al. 2015

Atten Percept Psychophys

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The objective of the present study was to explore cross-modal associations between color and tactile sensation while using haptically rendered virtual stimuli with substance properties of roughness/smoothness, hardness/softness, heaviness/lightness, elasticity/inelasticity, and adhesiveness/ nonadhesiveness. The stimuli with the indicated properties were rendered with the aid of SensAble PHANTOM OMNI® haptic device. The experimental setup required the participants to use exploratory procedures typical to real object interaction, and select a color from the HSV color space that matched the experienced sensation. The findings of our investigation reveal systematic mapping between color characteristics and intensity of the haptic stimuli. Qualitatively different haptic sensations, however, produced relatively similar patterns of cross-modal associations.

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“…Turning behaviors of individuals entering a symmetrical theatre are found to depend on the purpose and motivation of the presentation. When examining real-world seating biases of movie-goers, individuals display a right-side bias (Harms et al 2014); however, when participants are told they are negatively motivated to view the film, the right-directional bias disappears (Okubo 2010). Lateral head-turning in picture posing similarly differs by the context in which it is framed.…”

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Kissing Right? Absence of Rightward Directional Turning Bias During First Kiss Encounters Among Strangers

2019

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When leaning toward a partner for a kiss, the direction that individuals turn their head when planting the kiss is found to vary based on the kiss's context; romantic kissing between adult couples is consistently directed rightward, though recently, a non-romantic kiss between parent-child couples was observed to be leftward. The current study further examines the lateral head-turning direction between non-romantic couples using a novel context: a first kiss between strangers. Observing strangers kissing was feasible due to a unique social media phenomenon; since 2014, 23 "First Kiss" online videos have emerged which depict kisses facilitated by the video's director between consenting strangers. The turning direction of 230 kissing couples were coded from the 23 First Kiss videos, and the proportion of right to left turns were almost equal; 51% of couples displayed a rightturn kiss, and 49% conveyed a left-turn kiss. Further, the proportion of right and left turns observed from our sample of strangers kissing were compared to Güntürkün's (in Nature 421:711, https ://doi.org/10. 1038/42171 1a, 2003) original study that examined authentic kissing between adult couples. A significantly different turning bias was exhibited. Because the kissing criterion was parallel between these studies, our study demonstrates that the context influenced the direction of bias, namely, that of a non-romantic kiss. We discuss the potential role of context and emotional lateralization on kissing laterality, and propose future directions to test these predictions.

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Lateral bias in theatre-seat choice

Cited by 11 publications

References 32 publications

Anticlockwise or clockwise? A dynamic Perception-Action-Laterality model for directionality bias in visuospatial functioning

Anticlockwise or clockwise? A dynamic Perception-Action-Laterality model for directionality bias in visuospatial functioning

Cross-Modal Associations between Color and Haptics

Kissing Right? Absence of Rightward Directional Turning Bias During First Kiss Encounters Among Strangers

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