Publications by authors named "Carl Bunce"
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- Recent research highlights that people interact differently based on their spatial arrangement, with face-to-face pairs thought to use a specific form of visual processing similar to how we view faces.
- It was hypothesized that this configural processing would lead to better sensitivity in detecting social cues in upright, face-to-face dyads compared to other orientations like back-to-back or upside-down.
- However, experiments showed no significant difference in sensitivity to social distance in any arrangement, indicating that the processing for upright dyads may not align with the enhanced processing seen in upright faces.
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- Some people with autism have trouble recognizing faces, which makes it hard for them to understand social situations around them.
- A study looked at whether autistic adults also have difficulty noticing how close or far apart people are standing when interacting.
- The results showed that while autistic individuals struggled with face recognition, they could still detect changes in distance between people just as well as those without autism.
There is growing interest in how human observers perceive social scenes containing multiple people. Interpersonal distance is a critical feature when appraising these scenes; proxemic cues are used by observers to infer whether two people are interacting, the nature of their relationship, and the valence of their current interaction. Presently, however, remarkably little is known about how interpersonal distance is encoded within the human visual system.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe frequently experience feelings of agency over events we do not objectively influence - so-called 'illusions of control'. These illusions have prompted widespread claims that we can be insensitive to objective relationships between actions and outcomes, and instead rely on grandiose beliefs about our abilities. However, these illusory biases could instead arise if we are highly sensitive to action-outcome correlations, but attribute agency when such correlations emerge simply by chance.
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