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ArticleScientific reports2018

Visuospatial asymmetries do not modulate the cheerleader effect.

Daniel J Carragher, Blake J Lawrence, Nicole A Thomas, Michael E R Nicholls

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Daniel J CarragherCollege of Education, Psychology, and Social Work, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. daniel.carragher@flinders.edu.au.
Blake J LawrenceCollege of Education, Psychology, and Social Work, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
Nicole A ThomasCollege of Education, Psychology, and Social Work, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
Michael E R NichollsCollege of Education, Psychology, and Social Work, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cheerleader effect occurs when the same individual appears to be more attractive when seen in a group, compared to alone. As observers over-attend to visual information presented in the left visual field, we investigated whether the spatial arrangement of the faces in a group would influence the magnitude of the cheerleader effect. In Experiment 1, target faces were presented twice in the centre of the display: once alone, and once in a group. Group images featured two distractor faces, which were presented in either the left or the right visual field, or on either side of the target. The location of the distractor faces did not modulate the size of the cheerleader effect, which was observed in each group configuration. In Experiment 2, we manipulated the location of the target faces, which were presented at the far left, far right, or centre of the group. Faces were again significantly more attractive in each group configuration, and the spatial location of the target face did not influence the size of the cheerleader effect. Together, our results show that the cheerleader effect is a robust phenomenon, which is not influenced by the spatial arrangement of the faces in the group.

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FacePattern Recognition, VisualVisual PerceptionAdultAttentionFemaleHealthy VolunteersHumansOrientation, SpatialPsychological TestsYoung Adult

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PMID29416057
PMCPMC5803192

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