By Macy Halford June 24 , 2010Books may be embattled, but you wouldn't know it standing in a bookstore, surrounded by stacks and rows and upright displays of gorgeously designed covers.
By the end of the stress-inducing task, participants sitting in an upright posture displayed an overall more positive emotional state compared to those in the slumped posture group.
As concerns group Inv-first, no significant postural effect was detected for either the Upright or Inverted display, which would imply that visual information first presented in the Inverted display, although insufficient to contaminate observers' posture, provoked a stabilisation reaction which prevented contagion by the subsequent Upright stimulus.
We recorded participants' body sway while they observed a fixation cross (control condition), an upright point-light display of a gymnast balancing on a rope, and the same point-light display presented upside down.
We recorded participants' body sway while they observed a fixation cross (Control condition), an Upright point-light display of a gymnast balancing on a rope (Upright condition), and the same point-light display presented upside down (Inverted condition).
Nearby, the baby mammoth stood upright in a display case.
In the painting galleries, two canvases by Renoir, for example, display upright pianos -- ubiquitous in middle-class homes throughout Europe and the United States by the 1890's -- surrounded by sweet-faced girls eager to show off their musical accomplishments.
This study demonstrates that observing an Upright point-light display of postural imbalance induces an increase of observers' body sway.
Co-authored by Douglas Dechow, space writer, librarian, teacher On May 21, External Tank #94 arrived at the California Science Center, where it eventually will be stacked with the orbiter Endeavour and two test rockets and displayed upright as if ready to launch.
