James E. Cutting
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View article: The afterlife of artists
The afterlife of artists Open
Metacognition, the ability to reflect upon, and evaluate our own beliefs, can help us avoid making decisions based on unreliable evidence. Here, we provide empirical tests of the importance of human metacognition during the COVID-19 pandem…
View article: Changes in Conversations Across a Century of Popular Cinema
Changes in Conversations Across a Century of Popular Cinema Open
Over the course of a century, filmmakers of popular cinema have composed conversations between two characters in several ways. Here, I investigate three. The oldest but initially rare conversational format occurred in silent movies, placin…
View article: Review of: "An integrative model of new product evaluation: A systematic investigation of perceived novelty and product evaluation in the movie industry"
Review of: "An integrative model of new product evaluation: A systematic investigation of perceived novelty and product evaluation in the movie industry" Open
Potential competing interests: The author(s) declared that no potential competing interests exist.Luan and Kim (2022) present a compelling analysis of the curvilinear relationship between objective and subjective measures of a movie's nove…
View article: Three Filmmaking Practices That Guide Our Attention to Popular Cinema
Three Filmmaking Practices That Guide Our Attention to Popular Cinema Open
Popular movies are constructed to control our attention and guide our eye movements across the screen. Estimates of fixation locations were made by manually moving a cursor and clicking over frames at the beginnings and ends of more than 3…
View article: Sequences in popular cinema generate inconsistent event segmentation
Sequences in popular cinema generate inconsistent event segmentation Open
Popular movies have an event structure that includes scenes and sequences. Scenes are fashioned to be perceived as smoothly flowing, a feature called continuity. Discontinuity is said to occur when scene (event) boundaries are crossed. Thi…
View article: Temporal fractals in movies and mind
Temporal fractals in movies and mind Open
Fractal patterns are seemingly everywhere. They can be analyzed through Fourier and power analyses, and other methods. Cutting, DeLong, and Nothelfer (2010) analyzed as time-series data the fluctuations of shot durations in 150 popular mov…
View article: Cryptic Emotions and the Emergence of a Metatheory of Mind in Popular Filmmaking
Cryptic Emotions and the Emergence of a Metatheory of Mind in Popular Filmmaking Open
Hollywood movies can be deeply engaging and easy to understand. To succeed in this manner, feature‐length movies employ many editing techniques with strong psychological underpinnings. We explore the origins and development of one of these…
View article: The evolution of pace in popular movies
The evolution of pace in popular movies Open
Movies have changed dramatically over the last 100 years. Several of these changes in popular English-language filmmaking practice are reflected in patterns of film style as distributed over the length of movies. In particular, arrangement…
View article: Narrative theory and the dynamics of popular movies
Narrative theory and the dynamics of popular movies Open
Popular movies grab and hold our attention. One reason for this is that storytelling is culturally important to us, but another is that general narrative formulae have been honed over millennia and that a derived but specific filmic form h…
View article: Facial expression, size, and clutter: Inferences from movie structure to emotion judgments and back
Facial expression, size, and clutter: Inferences from movie structure to emotion judgments and back Open
The perception of facial expressions and objects at a distance are entrenched psychological research venues, but their intersection is not. We were motivated to study them together because of their joint importance in the physical composit…