{"id":7152,"date":"2018-11-25T11:48:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T18:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=7152"},"modified":"2018-11-25T11:50:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T18:50:33","slug":"wrong-the-animal-you-spot-first-says-a-lot-about-your-personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/11\/25\/wrong-the-animal-you-spot-first-says-a-lot-about-your-personality\/","title":{"rendered":"WRONG: The Animal You Spot First Says a\u00a0Lot About Your Personality"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>No, it doesn&#8217;t.<br \/>\nSheesh.<br \/>\n<em><strong>However, it says a LOT about the graphic design.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nThe lion has a lovely DARK frame around it&#8217;s face (the biggest dark patch on that side of the image), making it quite prominent.<br \/>\nWe are predisposed to seeing faces. It is also along a relatively UN-busy border, and the eyes are very prominent.<br \/>\nThe most easily recognizable faces, with the most obvious eyes, and having the most contrast with the surrounding area (colour- and shape-wise) are going to be the first ones you spot.<br \/>\nWhat that tells you, is that you are HUMAN.<br \/>\nIf you spotted anything with those attributes first, it tells you that the graphic design did its job.<br \/>\nCongratulations!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/brightside.me\/wonder-quizzes\/the-animal-you-spot-first-says-a-lot-about-your-personality-648860\/?utm_source=fb_brightside&amp;utm_medium=fb_organic&amp;utm_campaign=fb_gr_enjoy_science\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/7594660-10211010-1088345-0-1542359737-1542359753-1500-1-1542359753-728-32e9147584-1542722750.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Our subconscious mind is\u00a0incredible and can tell a\u00a0lot about our personality, more than we\u00a0probably think. Experts say that our subconscious mind is\u00a0like a\u00a0storage unit, which holds all of\u00a0your likes and dislikes, beliefs and fears, memories and skills, it\u2019s built from everything you have seen and experienced, even if\u00a0you don\u2019t remember\u00a0it. The interesting thing is\u00a0that it\u00a0directly connects to\u00a0our conscious behavior, and in\u00a0this instance, your eyes see the full picture but your brain picks first what\u2019s relative to\u00a0you personally.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brightside.me\/wonder-quizzes\/the-animal-you-spot-first-says-a-lot-about-your-personality-648860\/?utm_source=fb_brightside&amp;utm_medium=fb_organic&amp;utm_campaign=fb_gr_enjoy_science\">The Animal You Spot First Says a\u00a0Lot About Your Personality<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-7152'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(7152);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(7152);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(7152);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>No, it doesn&#8217;t. Sheesh. However, it says a LOT about the graphic design. The lion has a lovely DARK frame around it&#8217;s face (the biggest dark patch on that side of the image), making it quite prominent. We are predisposed &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/11\/25\/wrong-the-animal-you-spot-first-says-a-lot-about-your-personality\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,14,371],"tags":[389,49,212,103,163],"class_list":["post-7152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-general","category-research","tag-educational-technology","tag-fail","tag-research","tag-society","tag-user-experience"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1Rm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1454,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/11\/24\/educational-research-and-the-design-degree\/","url_meta":{"origin":7152,"position":0},"title":"Educational Research and the Design Degree","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"November 24, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Mark Guzdial wrote a thoughtful post yesterday that pondered approaches to educational research that fail to address the domain specificity that lies at the core of so many educational challenges. 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