“…A judgment in minutes of analog time, used in earlier studies by Reinhardt-Rutland (1990, 1993b, is more automatic than a judgment in degrees of angle, used in the present study, a fact consistent with the assertion that the equidistance tendency is a product of information processing not directly concerned with sensory input. By extrapolation, it can be concluded that the nonautomaticity of verbal judgments of distance contributes to the equidistance tendency concerning discrete objects (Eriksson, I972c, 1974;Foley, 1977;Gogel, 1969;Gogel & Teitz, 1973), a result with clear implications for several studies in which the equidistance tendency was not explicitly isolated (Eriksson, 1972a(Eriksson, , 1972bGehringer & Engel, 1986;Hell, 1978;Hell & Freeman, 1977).…”