Ensemble Perception: Asymmetrical Relationships between Mean, Variability, and Numerosity

PurposeThis study aims to examine the asymmetrical relationships among information-sharing desire, moral attitudes, lack of concern, relative advantage, market maven tendency and complexity as the antecedents of E-waste-word of mouth (EW-WOM) generation.Design/methodology/approachTo obtain a holistic view and the interrelationships between conditions, the configural analysis was conducted to assess the asymmetrical relationships using fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fs/QCA). In addition, construct validity, reliability and symmetrical relationships between antecedent conditions (i.e. exogenous constructs) and outcome conditions (i.e. endogenous constructs) are examined using variance-based structural equation modeling (VB-SEM) technique.FindingsResults imply that market maven tendency accounts for 86.8% of the sum of the memberships in EW-WOM generation. In total, 11 configurations show sufficiency in constructing EW-WOM generation. The configuration of relativeadvanta*moralattitudes*marketmaventend shows the highest consistency value (0.939684) in producing EW-WOM generation (outcome condition). The ∼relativeadvanta *moralattitudes*complexity*∼lackfconcern with raw coverage of 0.626757 and consistency value of 0.864088 show the most sufficient configuration path in producing the outcome.Originality/valueProduct review and recommendation are easily shared in various communication formats and consumers are prone to disseminate information and their experiences with other market segments. However, the role and phenomena of such viral communication in preventing environmental issues caused by electronic and electrical devices (i.e. E-waste) are not well understood. This study is among a few attempts at understanding consumer's decision-making process to engage in E-waste activities such as the reduction of garbage, recycling, compositing and the reuse of electronic or electrical devices.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-11-2019-0343

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Average percept in ensemble perception is based on morphed average object: Evidence from average facial attractiveness

Acta Psychologica Sinica ◽

10.3724/sp.j.1041.2021.00714 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 53 (7) ◽

pp. 714

Author(s):

Xinran TIAN ◽

Wenxia HOU ◽

Yuxiao OU ◽

Bing YI ◽

Wenfeng CEHN ◽

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Keyword(s):

Facial Attractiveness ◽

Ensemble Perception

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Limitations on animacy categorization in ensemble perception

10.31234/osf.io/d4za6 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Vladislav Khvostov ◽

Yuri Markov ◽

Timothy F. Brady ◽

Igor Utochkin

Keyword(s):

Poor Performance ◽

Object Categorization ◽

Visual Features ◽

Multiple Objects ◽

Individual Object ◽

Ensemble Perception ◽

Entire Visual Field ◽

Good Individual ◽

Distribution Type ◽

Individual Objects

Many studies have shown that people can rapidly and efficiently categorize the animacy of individual objects and scenes, even with few visual features available. Does this necessarily mean that the visual system has an unlimited capacity to process animacy across the entire visual field? We tested this in an ensemble task requiring observers to judge the relative numerosity of animate vs. inanimate items in briefly presented sets of multiple objects. We generated a set of morphed “animacy continua” between pairs of animal and inanimate object silhouettes and tested them in both individual object categorization and ensemble enumeration. For the ensemble task, we manipulated the ratio between animate and inanimate items present in the display and we also presented two types of animacy distributions: “segmentable” (including only definitely animate and definitely inanimate items) or “non-segmentable” (middle-value, ambiguous morphs pictures were shown along with the definite “extremes”). Our results showed that observers failed to integrate animacy information from multiple items, as they showed very poor performance in the ensemble task and were not sensitive to the distribution type despite their categorization rate for individual objects being near 100%. A control condition using the same design with color as a category-defining dimension elicited both good individual object and ensemble categorization performance and a strong effect of the segmentability type. We conclude that good individual categorization does not necessarily allow people to build ensemble animacy representations, thus showing the limited capacity of animacy perception.

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Ensemble perception for durations of visual stimuli

Journal of Vision ◽

10.1167/19.10.163d ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (10) ◽

pp. 163d

Author(s):

Teruaki Kido ◽

Yuko Yotsumoto

Keyword(s):

Visual Stimuli ◽

Ensemble Perception

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Queering Space in Neil Gaiman’s Illustrated Works

The Artistry of Neil Gaiman ◽

10.14325/mississippi/9781496821645.003.0012 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 204-216

Author(s):

Renata Lucena Dalmaso ◽

Thayse Madella

Keyword(s):

Liminal Spaces ◽

Asymmetrical Relationships

This chapter investigates the queering of space in Neil Gaiman's illustrated works, and the recurrent centrality of the liminal nature of places in these works. Liminal spaces are symbolic of two or more conflicting categories at the same time, and they may offer possibilities for subversion of imposed binarisms. In Gaiman's work these spaces are most often contiguous, sharing a permeable border. These spaces offer opportunities to examine asymmetrical relationships and structures of power.In order to explore such liminal spaces in Gaiman's works and how those spaces may, or may not, queer binary categories, we shall borrow from Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia. As the analyses throughout this chapter will try to demonstrate, heterotopic spaces in Gaiman's works are represented as sites that are rife with the potential for queering binarisms.

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Watching the Flame of Youth

Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age ◽

10.5744/florida/9780813066301.003.0005 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 149-204

Author(s):

Melanie V. Dawson

Keyword(s):

Child Marriage ◽

Middle Aged ◽

Asymmetrical Relationships ◽

Sexual Interests

Focusing on the “flaming youth” figure of the 1920s, this chapter explores the prevalence of discussions about child marriage in works by Wharton and Fabian, exploring forms of generation-specific authority and the peculiar age-specific qualities of the “child-woman” at the center of these plots. Scenes of youthful teen girls’ slumber, which frequently overlap with middle-aged men’s sexual interests, predict many of the aspects of these relationships that interest Wharton, whose fictions imagine child marriage, then increasingly problematize the age-asymmetrical relationships involved in such unions.

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Negotiation of Wit in Facebook Humour

Analyzing Language and Humor in Online Communication - Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0338-5.ch002 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 20-37

Author(s):

Akin Odebunmi ◽

Simeon Ajiboye

Keyword(s):

Conversation Analysis ◽

Common Ground ◽

Ground Theory ◽

Cognitive Approach ◽

Cultural Experiences ◽

The Common ◽

Asymmetrical Relationships

This chapter unpacks the humorous contents of selected Facebook-based Akpos jokes which have received inadequate attention in the scholarship with respect to wit negotiation which mostly indexes the jokes. Six out of fifteen sampled jokes have been analysed with the theoretic aid of Istvan Kecskes' Socio-Cognitive Approach (SCA), aspects of the common ground theory, aspects of conversation analysis and elements of selected humour theories. The analysis shows three forms of wit negotiation: negotiation of mis-oriented twists, negotiation of dis-preference and negotiation of un-designed twists. In the respective cases, the talk initiating speakers have their logic flawed by recipient speakers, usually Akpos, and consequently get outsmarted; earlier sequentially dispreferred social choices are re-negotiated as preferred options in the light of new discursive realities; and the interactive designs or expectations of talk initiating participants receive undersigned or unexpected sequential responses in symmetrical or asymmetrical relationships. The paper argues that the joke characters' situationally adaptive orientation to apriori or emergent common ground and intention demonstrates the Akpos jokes' recontextualisation of particular Nigerian social and cultural experiences through the characters' socio-cognitive designs in the mediated encounters. It concludes that while these designs offer the relaxant effects jokes are naturally meant to yield, their negotiation mechanisms provide resources for the application of Kecskes' SCA in Facebook humour and produce sarcasm with a wing of moral lessons.

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