Carrying the height of the world on your ankles: Encumbering observers reduces estimates of how high an actor can jump

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1487-1495

  Ramenzoni, Veronica C ^a   Riley, Michael A ^a   Shockley, Kevin ^a   Davis, Tehran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Action understanding; Affordance perception; Embodiment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PERCEPTION; VISION; WALKING; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APTITUDE; BODY HEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; WALKING; WEIGHT PERCEPTION; WEIGHT-BEARING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 51349101244     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210802100073     Document Type: Article

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