Gestalt grouping effects in locating past events on timelines |
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| Authors: | S Kemp |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Collat School of Business, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1150 10th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States;2. Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware, 226 Purnell Hall, Newark, DE 19716, United States;3. Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware, 224 Purnell Hall, Newark, DE 19716, United States;1. Lund University, Department of Industrial Management and Logistics, SE-22100, Lund, Sweden;2. University of North Florida, Coggin College of Business, Jacksonville, FL, 32224, USA;1. School of Public Health, The University of Adelaide, Australia;2. School of Allied Health Science and Practice, The University of Adelaide, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Two experiments required human subjects to date events from the recent or historic past by placing them on timelines. Experiment 1 used parallel sets of timelines containing events similar or related to the test event marked either early or late on the timeline. For three of the seven test events used, subjects located the test event significantly earlier on the ‘early’ than the ‘late’ timeline. In experiment 2, where subjects were required to place a pair of related and a pair of unrelated events on a timeline, related events were significantly more bunched together than unrelated events. The results were interpreted as the consequence of Gestalt principles of perceptual organization. |
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