Psychology / Unit 4 Psych 0468 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Grouping in a Crowd Photograph
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The idea
In a crowd photograph, figure-ground and proximity determine which people are perceived as a group and which as background.
In practice
Four people standing slightly apart from a dense mass read as a separate group.
Where people slip
Here proximity and similarity conflict, and proximity wins because the spacing difference is large.
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