The Role of Effort in Perceiving Distance

Proffítt, Dennis R.; Stefanucci, Jeanine K.; Banton, Tom; Epstein, William

doi:10.1111/1467-9280.t01-1-01427

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“…That movement quickly ran its course without having much impact, but, today, research again suggests that perception of the physical world is influenced by emotion and other internal factors. For example, Proffitt and colleagues (e.g., Bhalla & Proffitt, 1999;Proffitt, Stefanucci, Banton & Epstein, 2003;Witt, Proffitt, & Epstein, 2004) have found that hills appear steeper and distances farther to people with reduced physical resources, either from wearing a heavy backpack, being physically tired, or being elderly. Recent research shows that emotion can have similar effects.…”

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On the interdependence of cognition and emotion

Storbeck

Clore

2007

Cognition & Emotion

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Affect and cognition have long been treated as independent entities, but in the current review we suggest that affect and cognition are in fact highly interdependent. We open the article by discussing three classic views for the independence of affect. These are (i) the affective independence hypothesis, that emotion is processed independently from cognition, (ii) the affective primacy hypothesis, that evaluative processing precedes semantic processing, and (iii) the affective automaticity hypothesis, that affectively potent stimuli commandeer attention and evaluation is automatic. We argue that affect is not independent from cognition, that affect is not primary to cognition, nor is affect automatically elicited. The second half of the paper discusses several instances of how affect influences cognition. We review experiments showing affective involvement in perception, semantic activation, and attitude activation. We conclude that one function of affect is to regulate cognitive processing.

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Section: B the Affective Regulation Of Perceptionmentioning

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On the interdependence of cognition and emotion

Storbeck

Clore

2007

Cognition & Emotion

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“…Second, participants are instructed to remain completely still with their heads immobilized with padding. This is potentially problematic given that the ability to act is known to alter spatial perception (e.g., Proffitt, Stefanucci, Banton, & Epstein, 2003;Witt, Proffitt, & Epstein, 2004;Lourenco & Longo, 2009). …”

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Right hemisphere control of visuospatial attention in near space

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“…As a result, hills look steeper to people experiencing fear of descending them (Stefanucci, Proffitt, Clore, & Parekh, 2008) and geographical space looks longer to those wearing a heavy backpack (Proffitt, Stefanucci, Banton, & Epstein, 2003) or standing on a hill (Stefanucci, Proffitt, Banton, & Epstein, 2005). Additionally, metaphor provides a straightforward link between the physical and the representational, enabling people to comprehend abstract concepts by grounding them in concrete sensorimotor experience (Clark, 1973;Lakoff & Johnson, 1980).…”

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Disembodiment: Abstract Construal Attenuates the Influence of Contextual Bodily State in Judgment

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2011

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Can the mind be divorced from the body? As evidenced by a host of findings in the traditions of grounded cognition and embodiment, sensorimotor experience can exert a powerful influence on what and how people think. The current investigation explores the conditions that temper or enable this influence, proposing that level of mental construal may moderate the role of temporary physical state in judgment. Insofar as the sensorimotor information responsible for grounding cognition constitutes an incidental and thus low-level feature of a situation, it should exert less influence from an abstract or high-level (versus concrete) frame of mind. Two studies provide support for this prediction: Contextual bodily information affected visual length estimates (Study 1) and importance ratings (Study 2) for people led to think concretely but not for those thinking abstractly. These results suggest that high-level thought allows for consistency by buffering against the effects of transitory situational factors.

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The Role of Effort in Perceiving Distance

Cited by 476 publications

References 11 publications

On the interdependence of cognition and emotion

On the interdependence of cognition and emotion

Right hemisphere control of visuospatial attention in near space

Disembodiment: Abstract Construal Attenuates the Influence of Contextual Bodily State in Judgment

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