Impressions of force in visual perception of collision events: A test of the causal asymmetry hypothesis

White, Peter Anthony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9080-6678 2007. Impressions of force in visual perception of collision events: A test of the causal asymmetry hypothesis. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 14 (4) , pp. 647-652. 10.3758/BF03196815

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Abstract

When two objects interact they exert equal and opposite forces on each other. According to the causal asymmetry hypothesis, however, when one object has been identified as causal and the other as that in which the effect occurs, the causal object is perceived as exerting greater force on the effect object than the latter is perceived as exerting on the former. An example of this is a stimulus in which one object moves toward another stationary one, and when contact occurs the former stops and the latter moves away. In this situation the initially moving object is identified as causal, so the causal asymmetry hypothesis predicts that more force will be judged to be exerted by the moving object on the stationary one than by the stationary one on the moving one. Participants’ judgments consistently supported this hypothesis for a variety of stimuli in which kinematic parameters were varied, even when the initially moving object reversed direction after contact.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	1069-9384
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2022 09:36
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/32600

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