New Videos on Perception of Faces and Emotions Added to ComCon’s Free Visual Resource Kollectionn

Sept. 25, 2010 - PRLog -- ComCon, a national trial and jury consulting firm based in Los Angeles, California, hosts a free webpage “Kollectionn” of visual resources for attorneys to view and play during trial to show that witnesses can make incorrect judgments because they lack circumstantial information, can be unaware of information even when attending to a situation, can misremember information even when motivated to remember, and can both differently perceive and misperceive situations even when well-intentioned.

ComCon’s free Visual Resources Kollectionn provides tests and demonstrations of limits of human observation as it relates to judgment, awareness, memory and perception.

Three new videos have been added to the perception section of ComCon’s Visual Resources Kollectionn.

Two of the new video resources demonstrate limits to our abilities as humans to perceive faces when not seen in a normal, upright orientation. Referred to as the “Thatcher Effect”, the videos demonstrate that when faces are seen in an upside-down orientation, facial features can easily be misperceived. The videos test facial perception skill and allow interaction with a demonstration.

The third new video resource demonstrates inconsistencies in the perception of emotional expressions on faces when seen close up or at a distance. The emotional expression perceived on a face when it is close (i.e., when the face is sharp) can be quite different from the emotional expression perceived on the same face when it is farther away (i.e., when the face is blurry).

The perception section of ComCon’s free Visual Resource Kollectionn contains numerous tests and demonstrations of our inability as humans to perceive objects in the physical world similarly and/or accurately.

The judgment section of the Kollectionn focuses on times witnesses observe other people behave and the inferences the witnesses draw are inaccurate and/or misleading because the witnesses are unaware of critical circumstantial information.

The awareness section explores times when witnesses are unaware of people, objects and events in a situation, despite otherwise being attentive and observant.

The memory section focuses on how human memory is pliable, suggestible, associative, forgetful and fallible by providing visual tests and demonstrations of incomplete, inaccurate, and invented memories, despite persons’ best efforts to recollect.

The Visual Resources Kollectionn is a free resource hosted by ComCon Kathy Kellermann Communication Consulting at http://www.kkcomcon.com/CCVisualResources.htm.

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