title: Incidence of the half-left profile pose in single-subject portraits.
abstract: The present work recorded frequencies of five poses (left profile, half-left profile, full-face view, half-right profile, and right profile) by examining 4,180 single-subject portraits of various media. Statistically significant differences were found between the incidence of half-left and half-right profiles. These differences found across media, authorship, and five centuries of portrait work are consistent with right-hemisphere activation models in attentional bias and perception of emotion.
authors.affiliation: Social Sciences Department, Everett Community College, WA 98201, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Conesa
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Brunold-Conesa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Miron
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D004644:Emotions; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010151:Paintings; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual