Category: Sophistication (Mastery)
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Improving your Emoji vocabulary…
The chart arranges the 171 forms in Unicode 17.0’s Smileys & Emotion group along two psychological dimensions. The horizontal axis represents valence, moving from unpleasant or negative states on the left to pleasant or positive states on the right. The vertical axis represents intensity, or arousal, moving from low activation at the bottom to strong…
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A quick summary of the main psychological theories relevant to photography
Psychology has no single, settled theory of photography. Instead, several theories explain how people make, view, interpret, remember, and use photographs. Some concern basic visual perception, while others address emotion, identity, social judgement, memory, creativity, and the unconscious. The theories below have the clearest value for photographic practice and critique. 1. Gestalt theory of perception…
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