title: Salience and asymmetric judgments of physical distance.
abstract: Previous research has shown that distance estimates made from memory are often asymmetric. Specifically, when A is a prominent location (a landmark) and B is not, people tend to recall a longer distance from A to B than from B to A. Results of two experiments showed that asymmetric judgments of distance are not restricted to judgments made from memory but occur also for judgments made when all relevant visual cues are still present. Furthermore, results indicated that situational salience is sufficient to produce asymmetric judgments and that distinctiveness (such as in the case of architectural landmarks) is not necessary.
authors.affiliation: Szkoła Wyzsza Psychologii Społecznej, Warsaw, Poland. magdalena.formanowicz@swps.edu.pl
authors.forename: Magdalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Formanowicz
authors.forename: Jerzy J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Karylowski
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D003463:Cues; D004215:Distance Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment / Q000502:physiology*; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology