Is there something wrong with me or my brain? I looked through my legs in my living room and the distances and colors seemed the same as right side up.
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Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”
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#52It seems like professor Higashiyama is really conducting research in perception, not so much psychology, as it is understood popularly. He also seems skeptical of what is commonly er perceived as psychological research- and I share his skepticism. FTA:
>> Many studies place importance on overt, conscious actions like seeing and listening. And some psychologists conclude that people are of one personality type or another based on questionnaires that lack evidence, and which are therefore indistinguishable from fortune-telling.
>> “So, people have biases in their understanding,” explains Higashiyama. “The same importance as placed on sight and hearing has to be placed on physical information as well, and conclusions must be based on evidence. Researchers need to be aware of the fact that the field of psychology runs the risk of changing people’s lives.”
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#53IMHO, given the head is upside down, the ciliary muscle of the eye is having more difficulties for to freely adjust the crystalline lens due the blood pressure increment.
So I think the effect described in the article sounds more like a lack of strength, or a strength adapted to lower pressure conditions, while adjusting the lenses.
has this been checked?
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#54> The horizontal-vertical illusion is a phenomenon in which the vertical line appears longer when a horizontal line and a vertical line of the same length are drawn. For example, it has been shown that when a building that is in fact 10 meters both along its frontage and in height is viewed, it seems to the viewer that the height is 1.4 times the width, making the building look 14 meters tall.
The first sentence is manifestly false. If you take the example image in the article and rotate it 90 degrees, so that the red line is horizontal and the black line is vertical, then it's still the red line that looks longer (admittedly I find the effect is a bit weaker). What's really going on is that the impact of black line's length is reduced by having something halfway along it, while the red line is unbroken.
Either the image represents a different illusion or (and I guess this is really it) it's not that vertical lines necessarily look longer, it's just that, in practice, they're more likely to be unbroken (like the red line) while horizontal lines are more likely to have other things visually impacting their apparent length.
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#55It seems like professor Higashiyama is really conducting research in perception, not so much psychology, as it is understood popularly. He also seems skeptical of what is commonly er perceived as psychological research- and I share his skepticism. FTA: >> Many studies place importance on overt, conscious actions like seeing and listening. And some psychologists conclude that people are of one personality type or anot…
Scepticism is great, but that's perhaps not how I would describe praising a quote from an Ig Nobel prize winner that discards the entire field of personality psychology just because it happens to align with what you already believe.
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#56Struggling a bit to find the quote, but in Ken Burns' National Parks documentary, it mentions that John Muir used to bend over and look at things between his legs in order to see "the upness" of the world.
Interesting to see that there's research showing a real effect from this!
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#57I was lucky to attend the ignobel award ceremony the year that the peace prize was awarded to the creator of the Stalin World amusement park. This was also roughly the same time period that the annals of improbable research founded the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists.
I’m sad that these important awards have never gained wider recognition, but perhaps they are too far ahead of their time.
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#58It seems like professor Higashiyama is really conducting research in perception, not so much psychology, as it is understood popularly. He also seems skeptical of what is commonly er perceived as psychological research- and I share his skepticism. FTA: >> Many studies place importance on overt, conscious actions like seeing and listening. And some psychologists conclude that people are of one personality type or anot…
The perception article in Wikipedia[1] is part of the psychology series.
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#59recently learned about postural restauration. seemingly the teeth and the hip-flexors are connected via the vestibular system. Which means, you can do all the excercises, chirpractics, yoga and so on, and still suffer back pain, because the hips don't relax. The demonstration was: molars and canines have to have contact, if they don't the vestibular system is out of tilt, put a piece of plastic between them, hip flex…
Very interesting. Do you by any chance have some supporting resources that you would be willing to share?
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#60It seems like professor Higashiyama is really conducting research in perception, not so much psychology, as it is understood popularly. He also seems skeptical of what is commonly er perceived as psychological research- and I share his skepticism. FTA: >> Many studies place importance on overt, conscious actions like seeing and listening. And some psychologists conclude that people are of one personality type or anot…
Scepticism is great, but that's perhaps not how I would describe praising a quote from an Ig Nobel prize winner that discards the entire field of personality psychology just because it happens to align with what you already believe.
To clarify, I'm skeptical of the same thing he expresses skepticism about, not of his skepticism.