Eye centring in selfies posted on Instagram.
Earlier work by one of us examined a historical corpus of portraits and found that artists often paint the subject such that one eye is centred horizontally. If due to psychological mechanisms constraining artistic composition, this eye-centring bias should be detectable also in portraits by non-pro...
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| description | Earlier work by one of us examined a historical corpus of portraits and found that artists often paint the subject such that one eye is centred horizontally. If due to psychological mechanisms constraining artistic composition, this eye-centring bias should be detectable also in portraits by non-professionals. However, this finding has been questioned both on theoretical and empirical grounds. Here we tested eye-centring in a larger (N ~ = 4000) and more representative set of selfies spontaneously posted on Instagram from six world cities. In contrast with previous selfie results, the distribution of the most-centred eye position peaked almost exactly at the horizontal centre of the image and was statistically different from predictions based on realistic Monte-Carlo predictions. In addition, we observed a small but statistically reliable pseudoneglect effect as well as a preference for centring the left-eye. An eye-centring tendency appears to exist in self-portraits by non-artists. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e2501b16232e4b6b9a3e11ea67fdc6702022-12-21T18:23:46ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032019-01-01147e021866310.1371/journal.pone.0218663Eye centring in selfies posted on Instagram.Nicola BrunoMarco BertaminiChristopher W TylerEarlier work by one of us examined a historical corpus of portraits and found that artists often paint the subject such that one eye is centred horizontally. If due to psychological mechanisms constraining artistic composition, this eye-centring bias should be detectable also in portraits by non-professionals. However, this finding has been questioned both on theoretical and empirical grounds. Here we tested eye-centring in a larger (N ~ = 4000) and more representative set of selfies spontaneously posted on Instagram from six world cities. In contrast with previous selfie results, the distribution of the most-centred eye position peaked almost exactly at the horizontal centre of the image and was statistically different from predictions based on realistic Monte-Carlo predictions. In addition, we observed a small but statistically reliable pseudoneglect effect as well as a preference for centring the left-eye. An eye-centring tendency appears to exist in self-portraits by non-artists.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218663 |
| spellingShingle | Nicola Bruno Marco Bertamini Christopher W Tyler Eye centring in selfies posted on Instagram. PLoS ONE |
| title | Eye centring in selfies posted on Instagram. |
| title_full | Eye centring in selfies posted on Instagram. |
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| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218663 |
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