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. 1995 Dec;81(3 Pt 1):920-2.
doi: 10.2466/pms.1995.81.3.920.

Incidence of the half-left profile pose in single-subject portraits

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Incidence of the half-left profile pose in single-subject portraits

J Conesa et al. Percept Mot Skills. 1995 Dec.

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.

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