Bruno, Nicola, Bertamini, Marco 
ORCID: 0000-0001-8617-6864 and Tyler, Christopher W
(2019)
Eye centring in selfies posted on <i>Instagram</i>.
PLOS ONE, 14 (7).
e0218663-.
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Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Eye, Humans, Photography, Social Media, Bias |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jul 2019 08:20 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Oct 2023 09:35 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0218663 |
| Open Access URL: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218663 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3050598 |
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