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Balcetis: Higher BMI individuals visually perceive distances as farther
“And we found that people who have a higher waist to hip ratio or a higher BMI see distances as farther than people who have a lower waist to hip ratio or lower BMI. Those distances literally look farther to people that for whom it might be harder to make it to…”
Balcetis: Narrowed visual focus makes runners 23% faster with 17% less pain
“And when we taught people that narrowed style of attention, what we found is that they moved 23% faster in this course that we had set up from the start line to the finish line. It was always exactly the same distance, and we were using our stopwatches to see …”
Narrowed visual focus improves speed 23% and reduces perceived effort 17%
“And when we taught people that narrowed style of attention, what we found is that they moved 23% faster in this course that we had set up from the start line to the finish line. It was always exactly the same distance, and we were using our stopwatches to see …”
Balcetis: Higher BMI individuals perceive physical distances as farther
“We found that people who have a higher waist to hip ratio or a higher BMI see distances as farther than people who have a lower waist to hip ratio or lower BMI.”
Balcetis: Motivation counteracts body weight effects on distance perception
“When people are more motivated to exercise or to make it to that finish line, that motivation can, in a sense, compensate for that effect of their body on their perception of distance. So that even highly motivated people, people who are highly motivated, even…”
Committed people stay motivated by looking ahead; uncommitted people by looking back
“And what she has found is that people get a burst of motivation or, you know, and performance increases. People engage in the goal-relevant activity at that halfway point if they look towards the finish line. Look towards what separates where I'm at right now …”
Balcetis: Faster runners increasingly narrow visual attention toward race finishes
“And what we found is that the people who actually run races faster and in other studies who report that their fastest race time or what they're currently running at is faster than those that have slower race times. Those are the people that use this strategy o…”
Balcetis: Olympic Athletes Do Not Focus on Competitors at Finish Lines
“Our Olympic athletes said they don't do that. They are not really focused on you know, where are other people relative to where they are when they're really trying to push themselves over the finish line.”
Balcetis: More cortex is dedicated to vision than hearing or touch
“There's far more of our cortex, you know, the outer layer of our brain that responds to visual information than any other form of information. So our brain thinks it's important. More of our brain space is, is taken up to respond to visual input Than auditory …”
Balcetis: Systolic Blood Pressure Drops When Facing Impossibly Hard Goals
“They've looked at systolic blood pressure as a physiological indicator of our psychological readiness to do something, and they have found that systolic blood pressure goes down when people set goals that feel impossibly hard to accomplish.”
Balcetis: Planning calendar a week ahead yields 2.5 more goal hours
“Over the course of a week, when people had spent, had planned time in their calendar a week in advance, when they thought more big picture about time allocation, they found two and a half more hours to work on their goal, in contrast to when people were thinki…”
Balcetis: Google Reduced Unhealthy Snacking by Altering Visual Accessibility
“What they found was that just by changing what it is that people could see easily, they changed consumption patterns. People people ate less of the unhealthier stuff, even though it was still there, simply because it was sort of out of sight.”