Skip to main content Skip to navigation

Calendar of events

Events photo montage banner

Show all calendar items

Internal Seminar: Janelle Kolas "Attentional Bias and The Cheerleader Effect"

- Export as iCalendar
Location: TEAMS

Seminars in term 2 will be held online weekly on Wednesdays at 12pm.

Attentional Bias and The Cheerleader Effect

Experimental evidence shows that when individuals are presented within a group, they are rated as more attractive than they are when presented alone. This phenomenon, known as the cheerleader effect, has been explained as an extension of ensemble encoding, which sees our visual system create summary statistics for a group, resulting in a more average (and thus more attractive) perception of group members. However, recent experimental evidence has demonstrated that enhanced attractiveness is also found when individuals are presented alongside identical photographs as well as photographs of non-human subjects, suggesting that ensemble encoding alone cannot fully explain this phenomenon. This upcoming study will test an alternative explanation for the cheerleader effect: a bias for abundance. By employing variant of the dot probe task, this study will measure attentional engagement and disengagement biases for group imagery.

For TEAMS link see email from Dr Jesse Preston j.preston@warwick.ac.uk

Show all calendar items