The economy of social resources and its influence on spatial perceptions

Survival for any organism, including people, is a matter of resource management. To ensure survival, people necessarily budget their resources. Spatial perceptions contribute to resource budgeting by scaling the environment to an individual's available resources. Effective budgeting requires se...

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Published in:Frontiers in human neuroscience 2013-11, Vol.7, p.772-772
Main Authors: Gross, Elizabeth B, Proffitt, Dennis
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
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Behavior
Bioenergetics
Cost control
Ecology
Expenditures
Extraversion
Glucose
Influence
Literature reviews
Mollusks
Neuroscience
Physiology
Resource management
Scaling
social baseline
Social networks
Social organization
social resources
Social support
spatial perception
Survival
Visual Perception
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Summary:Survival for any organism, including people, is a matter of resource management. To ensure survival, people necessarily budget their resources. Spatial perceptions contribute to resource budgeting by scaling the environment to an individual's available resources. Effective budgeting requires setting a balance of income and expenditures around some baseline value. For social resources, this baseline assumes that the individuals are embedded in their social network. A review of the literature supports the proposal that our visual perceptions vary based on the implicit budgeting of physical and social resources, where social resources, as they fluctuate relative to a baseline, can directly alter our visual perceptions.
ISSN:1662-5161
1662-5161
DOI:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00772