The focusing illusion helps to explain those counter-intuitive results of HRQOL research that disabled people are happier than you think, such that the healthy observer focuses on the disability whereas the disabled person is taking all aspects of his/her life into account and not merely his/her disability.
Some observers focused on the more immediate impact of the result on efforts to contain the growing crisis in the country's banking system, especially the debt-ridden Monte dei Paschi bank, amid an expected spike in Italian borrowing costs.
In conclusion, irrespective of experience and gender, observers focused on the face when using behaviour to assess pain and were unable to effectively identify rabbits in pain.
The observers focused on the face over 3 times more frequently and longer than the remaining body areas (Figures 1 & 2).
East Asian observers focused on a focal region (i.e. the center of the face), whereas Western Caucasian observers sampled more largely the visual input space (i.e. scattered fixations across facial features).
Western Caucasian and East Asian observers focused on similar facial areas (i.e., the eye and mouth regions) with a Spotlight of 5° to achieve above chance face recognition performance.
Our previous eye movement data [2] suggest that Western Caucasian observers deploy an analytical perceptual strategy to integrate facial information by using feature-by-feature fixations, whereas East Asian observers focused on the region that is optimal and economical to integrate information globally: the center of the face (i.e., the nose region).
Most foreign observers focus on Moscow and St Petersburg, but economic growth in the regions has been considerable.
Weibo, China's answer to Twitter, also erupted in a bout of Borisology, with many observers focusing on the former London mayor's hair rather than his foreign policy experience.
While lay observers focus on personalities and myths of great statesmanship, social scientists look at institutions.
