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perception
Your perception of an emotion depends on what came before.
An identical facial expression is perceived as hunger, grief, or desire depending on the preceding image.
The brain is a machine for creating narratives. When you see two images in sequence, you force a causal link between them to make sense of the visual data.
You are always creating meaning where none exists.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Kuleshov, 1920s
- What the check found
- While widely accepted in film theory, the evidence for the Kuleshov effect is largely anecdotal from film practitioners of the era rather than contemporary experimental psychology data.
- Confidence
- Well replicated
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.