Counterpoint: Distinguishing Between Perception And Judgment Of Spatial Layout

Authors

Frank H. Durgin, Swarthmore CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-1-2017

Published In

Perspectives On Psychological Science

Abstract

Claims about alterations in perception based on manipulations of the energetics hypothesis (and other influences) are often framed as interesting specifically because they affect our perceptual experience. Many control experiments conducted on such perceptual effects suggest, however, that they are the result of attribution effects and other kinds of judgmental biases influencing the reporting process rather than perception itself. Schnall (2017, this issue), appealing to Heider’s work on attribution, argues that it is fruitless to try to distinguish between perception and attribution. This makes the energetics hypothesis less interesting.

Keywords

embodied perception, space perception, glucose, demand characteristics

Comments

This work is a preprint that has been provided to PubMed Central courtesy of the Association for Psychological Science and SAGE.

Recommended Citation

Frank H. Durgin. (2017). "Counterpoint: Distinguishing Between Perception And Judgment Of Spatial Layout". Perspectives On Psychological Science. Volume 12, Issue 2. 344-346. DOI: 10.1177/1745691616677829
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-psychology/985