They were also asked how likable the communicators seemed, on a sliding scale starting with "superficial" and ending with "mechanical and cold, like a robot".
Raters were asked to judge how interesting, likable, happy, and sad each photo seemed, on a continuous 0-5 scale.
First, participants saw a face of a political candidate for 1 second and then judged how competent, dominant, approachable and attractive the face seemed on a 7-point Likert scale (1 = not at all to 7 = very much).
As a result, the book explains, "the collective result of everyone's smart behavior" — deciding to drive on that new road — "begins to seem, on a larger scale, stupid".
It seems on a small scale, ManUp is filling that gap for teenage boys in Ottawa.
In bounds Captain Clean, aka bodybuilder Tai Tokes Ayoola who speaks with an American twang and seems on a completely different scale to the classroom.
If you have had your nose trimmed it might not seem, on the scale of things, very important.
Anxiety has always been part of the human condition – as has depression and tendencies to self-harm – but never, it seems, on this scale.
But when I was at Girton, I once did business on what seemed a grand scale, getting such a generous gift from a member of the Pilkington family that the college could establish a music fellowship in perpetuity and buy a harpsichord with what was left.
None seem to challenge the convention on a scale as large as Hopscotch, which was dreamed up by director Yuval Sharon and created in collaboration with six composers and six writers.
