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Perceiving geographical slant

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It is proposed that the perceived exaggeration of geographical slant preserves the relationship between distal inclination and people’s behavioral potential, thereby enhancing sensitivity to the small inclines that must actually be traversed in everyday experience.
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People judged the inclination of hills viewed either out-of-doors or in a computer-simulated virtual environment Angle judgments were obtained by having people (1) provide verbal estimates, (2) adjust a representation of the hill’s cross-section, and (3) adjust a tilt board with their unseen hand Geographical slant was greatly overestimated according to the first two measures, but not the third Apparent slant judgments conformed to ratio scales, thereby enhancing sensitivity to the small inclines that must actually be traversed in everyday experience It is proposed that the perceived exaggeration of geographical slant preserves the relationship between distal inclination and people’s behavioral potential Hills are harder to traverse as people become tired; hence, apparent slant increased with fatigue Visually guided actions must be accommodated to the actual distal properties of the environment; consequently, the tilt board adjustments did not reflect apparent slant overestimations, nor were they influenced by fatigue Consistent with the fact that steep hills are more difficult to descend than to ascend, these hills appeared steeper when viewed from the top

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