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Incidence of the half-left profile pose in single-subject portraits
J Conesa1, C Brunold-Conesa, M Miron
1Social Sciences Department, Everett Community College, WA 98201, USA.
Perceptual and Motor Skills
|December 1, 1995
Abstract:
The present work recorded frequencies of five poses (left profile, half-left profile, full-face view, half-right profile, and right profile) by examining 4,180 single-subject portraits of various media. Statistically significant differences were found between the incidence of half-left and half-right profiles. These differences found across media, authorship, and five centuries of portrait work are consistent with right-hemisphere activation models in attentional bias and perception of emotion.