The Various Perceptions of Distance: An Alternative View of How Effort Affects Distance Judgments

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1104-1117

  Woods, Adam J ^a   Philbeck, John W ^a   Danoff, Jerome V ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

calibration; effort; egocentric distance perception; instruction type; visual perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; WEIGHT BEARING;

DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL EXERTION; SEX FACTORS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 69049083419     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013622     Document Type: Article

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